Upstream changes:
JOE 4.6
Enhancements
Upgrade to Unicode 10.0.0. Add configure environment variable that allows you select Unicode 8.0.0, 9.0.0 or 10.0.0.
Install Gnome .desktop files for JOE. This allows you to use JOE in GUI "Open With" mouse actions.
Support strikeout and double-underline attributes for the few terminal emulators that support them. Use "stricken" and "dunderline" in the syntax files, or \s and \z in help screens and status line.
Bugs fixed
Fix bug where JOE would sometimes crash when editing shell scripts. This was due to an obscure bug in the syntax highlighter: 'reset' command (used for default state) was incorrectly messing with stack.
-highlighter_context was missing from many file types, which negated some improvements from the previous version.
Fixed signed char overflow with old style mouse events in large windows
Fix bug where path restart (//) was being applied to block filter command prompt. Strange things would happen if you had adjacent slashes in command arguments.
Allow ~ expansion but suppress path restart (//) in compiler error parsing.
Restore default handling of SIGPIPE and SIGINT for shell commands. This fixes an issue where SIGPIPE doesn't terminate a process as expected, for example by the head -n 10 in: ^K R !sh -c 'while :; do echo y; done' | head -n 10. This issue only occurred in read/write to !, JOE already did the right thing for shell windows and the filter region through shell command.
Improve screen update algorithm so that spaces at the ends of lines are always emitted. This allows them to be preserved when cutting text with the mouse from a terminal emulator window.
Improve efficiency of screen update algorithm: JOE had been resetting attributes such as background color before performing cursor motions (probably as work around for bugs in old terminal emulators). This made screen update slow when there were many attributes, as with syntax highlighting and color schemes. It was also repeatedly emitting ESC [ K.
Switch JOE to issue scrolling commands, even at high baud rates (before this, JOE issued scrolling commands only at 19200 and below because it used to be that simple screen refresh was faster than scrolling in terminal emulators. But this is no longer true with complex screens involving color schemes, unicode and highlighting).
Windows version
Fix file access checks. Inaccessible files due to ACL's weren't correctly detected. This was a regression in 4.5.
Check the correct (Windows) path in the home directory for color schemes. This was not re-implemented properly in 4.5.
JOE 4.5
Enhancements
New color scheme feature, which can be accessed with ^T S or by setting the -colors option.
24-bit color support can be enabled by setting the COLORTERM environment variable to truecolor or 24bit.
Several schemes included in-the-box:
gruvbox by Pavel Pertsev
ir_black by Todd Werth
molokai by Tomas Restrepo
solarized by Ethan Schoonover
wombat by Lars H. Nielsen
xoria by Dmitriy Y. Zotikov
zenburn by Jani Nurminen
The current line can be highlighted by pressing ^T U or by enabling the -hiline option.
The gutter containing line numbers has a dynamic size based on the length of the file, rather than a fixed size of 10.
Updated all language syntax files to use comment_todo and string/comment contexts where appropriate.
Now pass character which invoked a macro to each macro step and call. If a macro step happens to be the 'type' command, the character which invoked the macro will be typed in. For example, this macro will type three 'X's. Before this change you got three NULs.
type,type,type X
Bugs fixed
Fix exsave: (^K ^X) should close file when a block is present in the window, and the file is unmodified (regression from ^C change in 4.2).
Fix regex assertions: they were not working because the character before the search position was not being loaded.
For jmacs: ^Q^J now again inserts \n in the string replace prompt. This broke beginning with JOE 4.0.
Don't try to open files for writing to check file access. This behaves better on unionfs mounts.
Fix stray blocks created after find/replace.
Windows version
Fix inability to set indent step to 1 from menu.
Add support for math functions, fix engineering display.
Fix backslash escapes in find/replace.
Support italicized text.
JOE 4.4
Enhancements
Bugs fixed
Fix segfault due to buffer overrun. This happens if a line with many backslashes appears in the status line context display.
Fix jmacs: ^X ^F and ^X ^B were not working
Build fixes for Solaris
Improve php highlighter: allow numbers in substitution variable names
Unicode tweak: treat private use characters (Co) as printable
Dockerfile highlighter: Add Docker new commands from 1.12, mark bad strings in arrays
Fix loading external charmaps
Windows version
Fix crashing bug when using incremental search
JOE for Windows 4.3
Download
Bugs fixed
Fixed a missed merge that prevented some options menu items from being changed (tab width, tab char, etc).
Fixed bugs updating the title bar.
Minor memory leak/performance fix in subprocess communication.
(from newer version) Fix segfault due to buffer overrun. This happens if you a line with many backslashes appears in the status line context display.
JOE 4.3
Enhancements
Improve memory usage by shrinking buffer header size and highlighter state size.
Improve performance of status line context display (which shows the first line of the function that the cursor is currently in). This feature was making JOE very slow on extremely large files with auto indent enabled (typically JSON or XML data files). Now the syntax highlighter computes the context display (using a new syntax named context.jsf).
Add a mode 'title' to enable or disable the status line context display (previously autoindent mode was overloaded to do this).
Disable syntax highlighting and context display in very large files
Force more appropriate modes when we enter hex dump display: enable overtype, disable autoindent, wordwrap, ansi, picture.
Handle middle mouse button in "joe -mouse" mode (before it did nothing). It's treated as paste (copy region to mouse) as expected. (patch from Petr Olsak).
Bugs fixed
Do not kill region highlighting during incremental search (patch from Petr Olsak).
Negative numbers were not being recognized in blocks
PgUp/PgDn would try to scroll menu if the window above is a menu (it should do this only for completion menus associated with prompts)
Use 'LC_ALL=C sed' to get JOE to compile in OS X.
Forward direction delimiter matching where the delimiters do not begin with special characters (for example in Verilog "begin" / "end") was not working.
Get mouse to work in menus: this broke in 4.1
Character classes with ranges were not working for UTF-8 (as in \[a-z])
Apply spec highlighting to .spec files
Gracefully handle short terminals: fix segfaults which occur when trying to shrink terminal while many windows are on the screen or while turning on help with a short terminal. Fix similar bugs involving the skiptop option. JOE now works even if the terminal height is only one line.
JOE 4.2
New or improved syntax files for the following languages:
Dockerfile
Usability Enhancements
The top Google help searches for JOE include:
How do I save and exit? The startup copyright notice has been replaced with basic help for beginners: ^K Q to exit and ^K H for help.
How do I dismiss the region highlighting? The traditional way is to hit ^K B ^K K, but this is slightly non-obvious and has always been awkward. Now Ctrl-C will do it.
How do I close all files and exit? Now Ctrl-K Q does this. Previously ^K Q was the same as ^C: abort a single file.
Restyle the help screens:
Make it more obvious that there is more than one screen: put the help for help inline with the text instead of in the (seemingly invisible) header.
Mention Ctrl-Arrow region selection, status and goto matching delimiter commands on the first screen.
Remove time and "Ctrl-K H for help" message from status bar. Beginners often don't notice this help message, and it takes up valuable status bar space that power users want for the context display.
Add ^KH for help to search and replace prompts. Many JOE users do not know about this context sensitive help.
Provide aborthint and helphint options so that the ^C and ^K H hints can be customized depending on the rc file (so say ^G for abort in jmacs, for example).
Enable -noxon by default (disable ^S/^Q flow control). This allows us to bind ^Q to quote and ^S / ^R to incremental search.
Document ESC X (command prompt) in the help screens.
"joe --help" now prints all command line options.
Other Enhancements
Tags search now tries to find the tags file in parent directories if it does not exist in the current directory and if the TAGS environment variable was not set.
Built-in calculator can now print and accept numbers in binary, octal and engineering formats: dec 12_345 eng 12.345_0e3 bin 0b11_0000_0011_1001 oct 0o3_0071 hex 0x3039
Built-in calculator now prints and accepts separating underscores for clarity. For example, 4_294_967_296 instead of 4294967296.
Enhanced calculator statistics functions:
dev computes standard deviation with full population
samp computes standard deviation with sample of population
Linear regression analysis. Select a region of x and y values, then:
lr(x) provide estimate of y given x
rlr(y) provide estimate of x given y
Lr, lR, LR: log, exponential, power regression
Calculator region functions now assume the entire buffer if no region is set.
Tab completion now works at the calculator prompt (and in all prompts which allow numeric input, such as ^KL- go to line).
Make new regex engine (from JOE 4.1) more compatible with the classic engine. \y is now shorthand for \(\.\*\), so that it does what \* did in the old engine. Also:
\. no longer matches newline.
\* matches shortest match, not longest match.
Add -left and -right options to control the amount scrolling when the cursor moves past the left or right edge of the screen. When the baud rate is low these are automatically set to a large amount. Also, these now control the manual horizontal scrolling commands. When these are positive, they indicate number of columns. When they are negative, they indicate a fraction of the screen width (-2 is 1/2 the width).
Bugs fixed
Fix use after free bug which shows up as a crash in OpenBSD
Fix bug where indent step value was not shown on ^T menu
Fix bug where setting margin doesn't work on big-endian systems
Fix issue where highest valued Unicode character equivalent was not translating to its corresponding 8-bit character. Effect of this was that Delete key was not working in shell windows in ASCII character set.
Standard deviation calculator function was not producing correct results.
Allow koi8r and koi8-r for KOI8-R in joe_getcodeset (which is only used if there is no setlocale).
Guess_crlf forced UNIX line endings for new files even though crlf was set. Now crlf is left alone if guess_crlf can not determine the line ending.
If cursor was at end of a long line and you switched to hex dump display mode, then hex dump was scrolled. Now scroll offset is reset when you switch to hex display mode.
Problems found with existing distfiles:
distfiles/javascript-2.1b1.el
distfiles/yEd-3.14.2.zip
No changes made to the javascript-mode or yEd distinfo files.
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
* New or improved syntax files for the following languages:
* Groovy, R, Clojure, Rust, Coffeescript, Java, Scala, Swift, D,
AVR, Ruby, Perl
* New translations
* Chinese (zh_TW)
* UTF-16 support
* JOE can now edit UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE files. It does this
by converting them to UTF-8 during load and back to UTF-16 during
save.
* Within JOE, native byte order is called UTF-16 and reversed order
is called UTF-16R.
* If you change the encoding (with ^T E) between UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-16R,
JOE will convert the file to the desired encoding on save.
* New regular expression engine
* Unicode improvements
* Code clean up
* Bugs fixed
* Minor enhancements
* jmacs fixes:
* ESC g (grep/find) and ESC c (compile) improvements
Upstream changes:
JOE 4.0
JOE now has pop-up shell windows with full terminal emulation and shell commands
that can control the editor. Hit F1 - F4 to bring up a shell window.
See Pop-up shell feature for a full description.
The status command (^K SPACE) can now be customized using the same syntax
as the status bar. Look for smsg and zmsg in joerc to see how to do this.
parserr (the error parser) will parse only the highlighted block if it's set. Before it always parsed the entire buffer.
Now there is a per-buffer concept of current directory. This was added to
make the pop-up shell windows work better, but it's useful in general.
At file prompts you can begin a new anchored path without having to delete
the old one. It means that ~jhallen/foo//etc/passwd is translated to /etc/passwd.
Prompt windows are now highighted to indicate which parts of the path are
being dropped. There is a syntax file for this: filename.jsf
The error parser now ignores ANSI sequences (some versions of grep
color their results, now JOE can still parse it).
Temporary messages are now dismissed by keyboard input only. Before, they
could also be dismissed by shell input.
Tags search now supports multiple matches. ^K ; can be configured to
either provide a menu of the matches or to cycle through them.
Tags search will now match on the member name part of member functions
('fred' will match 'myclass::fred').
Tags search will prepend the path to the tags file file name in the tags
file. This is important when JOE finds the tags file via the TAGS
environment variable.
Remove ` as quote character from incremental search.
Clean up documentation, convert much of it to Markdown.
JOE 3.8
Search JOE image for :include files referenced by the joerc file.
Include ftyperc file in the JOE image.
Change default indent from 2 to 4. Add quick menu to change to common
indent values: ^T = (1, 2, 4, or 8). Switch to + and - for definitively
setting or clearing options so that 0 and 1 can be use for quick select.
Added option to suppress DEADJOE file
Jump to matching delimiter (Ctrl-G) has been improved. It can now use the
syntax files to parse the document in order to identify strings and
comments which should be skipped during the matching delimiter search.
(patch by Charles Tabony).
When 'notite' mode is enabled, JOE now emits linefeeds to preserve the
screen contents in the terminal emulator's scrollback buffer. This can be
suppressed with a new flag: nolinefeeds.
JOE now starts up quiet (prints no extra messages when starting).
Messages are collected in a startup log (view with ESC x showlog).
There is a new flag 'noexmsg' which, when set, makes JOE quiet when it shuts
down (suppresses "File not changed so no update needed" message).
Use 80th column if terminal has xn capability (patch by pts and Egmont
Koblinger).
Support italic text (on some terminal emulators) with "\l" (patch by
Egmont Koblinger)
Support bracketed paste (patch by Egmont Koblinger)
Fix line number in syntax highlighter error output
Prevent infinite loops caused by buggy syntax definitions.
New and improved syntax definitions for:
Ant: contributed by Christian Nicolai
Batch files: contributed by John Jordan
C#: contributed by John Jordan
Debian apt sources.list: contributed by Christian Nicolai
Elixir: contributed by Andrew Lisin
Erlang: contributed by Christian Nicolai, Jonas Rosling, Andrew Lisin
git-commit messages: contributed by Christian Nicolai
Go: contributed by Matthias S. Benkmann
HAML: contributed by Christian Nicolai
INI: contributed by Christian Nicolai
iptables: contributed by Christian Nicolai
Javascript: contributed by Rebecca Turner, Christian Nicolai
json: contributed by Rebecca Turner
Markdown: contributed by Christian Nicolai, Jonas Rosling
Powershell: contributed by Oskar Liljeblad
Prolog: contributed by Christian Nicolai
Puppet: contributed by Christian Nicolai, Eric Eisenhart
Sieve: contributed by Christian Nicolai
YAML: contributed by Christian Nicolai
(from github.com/cmur2/joe-syntax)
Syntax definition fixes for: C, Python, Java, Lua, sh, Ruby, PHP, TeX,
CSS, and XML
Save/restore utf-8 and crlf modes when changing in/out of hex edit for
better display
Fix autocomplete for paths containing spaces
Accept mouse events beyond column 208 (patch by Egmont Kobligner)
Adjust guess_indent behavior based on user feedback
Fix infinite loop in search and replace
Add a new command 'timer' which executes a macro every n seconds. I use
this for periodically injecting a command into a shell window for
overnight testing of some device.
Convert double to long long (if we have it) when printing hexadecimal.
Fix bug where undo was acting strangly in shell windows.
Fix crash when hitting -----------.. wordwrap bug.
Check for math functions
Use joerc if fancyjoerc not there.
fix segfault from -orphan
fix window size detection bug: can't take out types.h
from tty.c
update status line immediately on resize.
va_copy fix.
don't smartbackspace when smartbacks is off.
* backspace/DEL means 'n' in replace prompt for better emacs
compatibility
* Menus are now made up of macros instead of options.
* ^T is now a user definable menu system
* Treat \ as a quote character for file I/O. Now you can edit
files like !test with \!test
* Print NULs in default search string. Handle many \s properly.
* Allow backslashes in file names
* Fix %A to print unicode
* Charles Tabony's (vectorshifts's) highlighter stack patch
* ! is relace all in replace prompt
* Turn off UTF-8 when we enter hex mode
* Call ttsig on vfile I/O errors.
* Abort cleanly when malloc returns NULL
* Add reload command to reload file from disk
* Modify configure scrips to use docdir for extra documents and
* Don't use bold yellow, it's bad for white screens
* Fix TeX highlighter: don't highlight "
* Make mail.jsf more forgiving for those of us who still use old UNIX mail
* Fix file rename bugs
* Improve ubop: can reformat a block of paragraphs again. Reformat
of adjacent indented paragraphs working again.
* Improve XML highlighter: allow \r in whitespace
- Query windows now expand to multiple lines if necessary
- Single key queries are now internationalized (set local versions in the
.po file)
- Spell check language can be set in the editor
- New syntax files: m4, joerc
- New debug window for highlight file syntax errors.
- Macros can be typed at the ESC X prompt (before it used to accept only
commands).
- Built-in joerc file allows joe to run even if /etc/joe directory is
missing.
- Support for 'long long' allows editing parts of files larger than 4GB.
For example, you can say: joe /dev/hda,0x100000000,0x1000 to edit the 4KB
block at offset 4GB of a hard drive.
- Option which allows you set how many undo records to keep.
- You can give a path to the tags file in the TAGS environment variable.
- Paragraph reformatter and word wrap now handle '*' and '-' bullet lists.
- Better internationalization (i18n)
- Multi-file search and replace
- JOE now restores cursor position in previously visited files.
- Build and grep window work more like Turbo-C: the messages window is
forced onto the screen when you hit ^[ = and ^[ -.
- Syntax highlighter definition files (.jsf files) can now have subroutines.
This eases highlighter reuse: for example, Mason and PHP can share the HTML
highlighter.
- I've changed the way JOE handles '-' and redirected input
- Many bugs have been fixed. I've tried to address every issue in the bug
tracker. Hopefully I didn't create too many new ones :-)
- You can now define which characters can indent paragraphs. Also the
default list has been reduced so that formatting of TeX/LaTeX files works
better.
- Highlighting now uses less CPU time and always parses from the beginning
of the file (the number of sync lines option is deprecated). Here is a
CPU usage comparison for scrolling forwards and backwards through a 35K
line C file:
- JOE now matches Thomas Dickey's implementation of my xterm patch (but
configure xterm with --paste64).
- File selection menu/completion-list is now above the prompt (which is more
like bash). Also it is transposed, so that it is sorted by columns
instead of rows.
- "Bufed" (prompt for a buffer to edit), works like other file prompt
commands: it's a real prompt with history and completion.
- Automatic horizontal left scroll jumps by 5-10 columns.
- New syntax files: troff, Haskell, Cadance SKILL, REXX, LUA, RUBY. Many of
the existing syntax files have been improved.
- The default background color can now be set.
- JOE now supports 256 color xterm.
- The mouse can now resize windows and select menu entries.
- During selection with the mouse, the window will autoscroll when you go
past the edge.
- An xterm-patch is included which makes "-mouse" mode work better. (With
the patch, also set "-joexterm").
- Syntax files are provided: ADA, AWK, COBOL, SED, Postscript, and SQL
- Improved jpico: search now looks more like real pico
- Grep find: use ESC g to grep. Then use ESC space to jump to
to indicated file/line.
- A Perforce SCM "p4 edit" macro has been supplied (along with the hooks
within JOE which support it) so that when you make the first change to a
read-only file, JOE runs "p4 edit". (look in joerc file to enable the
macro).
- Hex edit mode has been added. For example: joe -hex /dev/hda,0,1024
- New '-break_links' option causes JOE to delete before writing files, to
break hard links. Useful for 'arch' SCM.
- JOE now has GNU-Emacs compatible file locks. A symbolic link called
.#name is created, "pointing" to "user@machine.pid" whenever the buffer
goes from unmodified to modified. If the lock can't be created, the user
is allowed to steal or ignore the lock, or cancel the edit. The lock is
deleted when buffer goes from modified to unmodified (or you close the
file).
- JOE now periodically checks the file on the disk and gives a warning if
it changed when you try to modify the buffer. (JOE already performed this
test on file save).
- The built-in calculator (ESC m) is now a full featured scientific
calculator (I'm shooting for Casio Fx-4000 level here :-), including
hexadecimal and ability to sum (and perform statistics on) a highlighted
(possibly rectangular) block of numbers. Hit ^K H at the math prompt for
documentation.
- You can now change the current directory in JOE (well, it prompts with
the latest used directory).
- Colors can now be specified in the joerc file
- Macro language now has conditionals and modifiers for dealing with
repeat arguments. Jmacs now works better due to this.
- Tab completion works at tags search prompt ^K ;
- ^G now jumps between word delimiters (begin..end in Verilog, #if #else
#endif in C, /* .. */ and XML tags). If it doesn't know the word, it
starts a search with the word seeding the prompt. It is also much smarter
about skipping over comments and quoted matter.
- TAB completion is now much more like bash (again :-). The cursor stays
at the file name prompt instead of jumping into the menu system. Also
^D brings up the menu, as in tcsh. Also, tab completion now works on user
names for ~ expansion.
- Now there is a ~/.joe_state file which stores:
all history buffers
current keyboard macros
yank records
- Joe now has xterm mouse support: when enabled, the mouse can position
the cursor and select blocks. The mouse wheel will scroll the screen.
When enabled, shift-click emulates old xterm mouse behavior (cut &
paste between applications).
- More syntax files: TeX, CSS, OCaml, Delphi, SML and 4GL. Thanks to
all of the contributers.
- Vastly improved highlighting of Perl and Shell due to the highlighter now
understanding word and balanced delimiters.
- Many bugs have been fixed (every bug which has been entered into the
sourceforge project page has been addressed). Hopefully I didn't add
too many new ones :-)
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
* Regex and incremental search (jmacs ^S) now work for UTF-8
* More and improved syntax highlighting files, including Mason
* Use ^T E to set character set of file (hit <tab> <tab> at the
prompt for a list of available character sets).
* Can install custom "i18n" style byte oriented character set
definition files.
* No longer depends on iconv() (easier to compile)
* Fix bug where right arrow was not doing right thing on last line
* Fix UTF-8 codes between 0x10000 - 0x1FFFF
* Now prints <XXXX> for unicode control characters
* Improved smart home, indent, etc.
* TAB completion is now more "bash"-like
* When multiple files are given on command line, they end up in
same order on the screen in JOE (before they were shuffled).
* Menu size is now variable (40% of window size or smaller if
it's not filled).
* Added -icase option for case insensitive search by default.
* Added -wrap option, which makes searches wrap
* Added status line sequence %x: shows current context (function
name if you're editing C).
* Added tab completion at search prompts and ESC-Enter for tab
completion within text windows.
* Warn if file changed on save.
* Added Ctrl-space block selection method
* Added Ctrl-arrow key block selection method
* ^K E asks if you want to load original version of the file
* jmacs bugs fixes: upperase word, transpose words, ^X ^C is
more emacs-like., ^X k and ^X ^V more like emacs.
* Much improved compile system ^[ c
* Much improved jpico
* aspell support.
pkgsrc. Instead, a new variable PKGREVISION is invented that can get
bumped independent of DISTNAME and PKGNAME.
Example #1:
DISTNAME= foo-X.Y
PKGREVISION= Z
=> PKGNAME= foo-X.YnbZ
Example #2:
DISTNAME= barthing-X.Y
PKGNAME= bar-X.Y
PKGREVISION= Z
=> PKGNAME= bar=X.YnbZ (!)
On subsequent changes, only PKGREVISION needs to be bumped, no more risk
of getting DISTNAME changed accidentally.
