make much sense. Replace it with a symlink to the version dependend
directory name, where real stuff is installed. This allows other
pkgs (i.e. net/zenicb) to add lisp modules easily.
Changes sine 0.7.9
User Interface
Modeless dialogs (Martin Sevior)
Start of GoTo dialog. (Joaquín Cuenca Abela)
Improvements to Word Count dialog on Linux (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
Start of Show Paragraphs (Alexey Sinutin)
Localizations
A Galician translation was added by Jesus Bravo Alvarez
(jba@pobox.com) Also updated translations are Danish (Birger
Langkjer and Martin Hansen), German (Harald Fernengel), Spanish
(Joaqun Cuenca Abela), and Swedish (Linus G Larsson)
Bug Fixes
Major editing bugs cleaned up (Bruce Pearson)
Better RTF import for accented chars and hyphens (Hubert Figuiere)
Ruler anomalies (Aaron Lehman)
Various Other Bugs: #250 (Sam Tobin-Hochstatd), #274 (Mike
Nordell), #435 (HJ), #443 (Matt Kraai), #596 (Martin Sevior),
#604 (Kenny MacDonald), and #843 (Hubert Figuiere).
Other
Updated build process to handle new CYGWIN tools (Michael D. Pritchett)
Another step toward Word export (James Montgomerie) )
New since version 5.6
---------------------
Not much:
- 19 new syntax files.
- "explorer.vim" script, works like a file browser.
And many bug fixes! This version is aimed at stability.
Add a new USE_LIBTOOL definition that uses the libtool package instead of
pkglibtool which is now considered outdated.
USE_PKGLIBTOOL is available for backwards compatibility with old packages
but is deprecated for new packages.
- Significant extensions to the regular expression syntax.
- Incremental search, and optional search bar.
- New ctags code with full support for Exuberant Ctags, better
handling of tag collisions, multiple tag file support, on-demand
loading of tag files, and automatic reload of modified tag files.
- Optional display of line numbers along the left side of the text.
- NEdit can now read and write MS DOS format files.
- New built-in syntax highlighting patterns for Lex, PostScript, SQL,
Many syntax highlighting pattern improvements.
- Improved international character set input
- New macro subroutines: list_dialog, getenv, set_language_mode.
- Optional warnings about external modifications to files
- Clearcase awareness
- Session manager restart capability
- Default language mode "*" for user-defined menu items, allows
per-language variations on a common base
- Allow additional modifiers like Sun diamond key in user defined
accelerators
- Option to sort open previous menu.
- -geometry and -iconic command line arguments act per-window, and
can be specified via nc
- -geometry now specified in characters, rather than pixels
- -lm (language mode) command line option
- Save As dialog defaults to same file name
- .nedit file version mechanism to make future upgrades easier
- Crash on large amounts of data fed to shell command which does not
take input
- Delayed secondary windows when executable statements specified in
users .neditmacro file
- Many corrections to online help
- Many highlight patterns corrections
- Using window close box in file open/save dialogs leaves nedit server
unresponsive
- escape in macro dialogs can cause macro hang
- Lesstif-specific fixes: attachment warnings in font selector,
Work around replace dialog focus bug.
- NEdit no longer maintains original protection settings on files. It
allows them to be changed externally.
incorporated into the AbiWord main source tree. Changes from 0.7.8:
User Interface
+ Insert Symbol dialog (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
+ Word Count dialog (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
+ Overwrite Mode added (Alexey Sinutin)
+ Set Page Margins from ruler (Bruce Pearson)
+ Insert Field dialog (Henrik Berg)-- not fully enabled due to
pending changes in the underlying fields implementation.
Bug Fixes
+ The infamous libpng bug (Justin Bradford and Sam
Tobin-Hochstadt)
+ Underline/superscript fix (Martin Sevior)
+ View Ruler consistency (Kevin Vajk)
+ RTF CR/LF handing (Harald Fernengel)
+ Various Other Bugs: #522 (sterwill@sourcegear.com), #10 and
#811 (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt), #302 (Aaron Lehmann), #352
(Henrik Berg), #432 and #776 (Martin Sevior), #637 (Andy
Richardson), #651 (Matt Kraai), #770 (Matthew Allen), #782
(Danny Faught), #788 and #789 (Joaquin Cuenca Abela)
Other
+ Various localizations
+ Updated XML parser to version 1.1 (Sam Tobin-Hochstadt)
+ Mac port beginning (Bryan Prusha)
+ Lots of Gnome dialogs (John Tunison) -- no Gnome binaries for
0.7.9 but will be available in the next release
+ Command line conversions (Joaquin Cuenca Abela) -- for a
complete list, type AbiWord -help from a command prompt
Mg (mg) is a Public Domain EMACS style editor. It is "broadly"
compatible with GNU Emacs. Mg was formerly named MicroGnuEmacs,
but is not associated with the GNU project.
This program is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for
people who can't (or don't want to) run real Emacs.
