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@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@ Tasks: * Have a look at TECO-86. * VEDIT and PMATE for MS-DOS + * Update to Scinterm 5.5. + Perhaps we can make use of the arbitrary RGB color feauture? + * PDCurses 4.5.1 is in MSYS. + Perhaps some workarounds can be removed now (8cc704b897f33d6150156c77202a29222b9ee667). + https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod/issues/330 Known Bugs: + * <FD> returns the deleted length-1, which also breaks <^S>. * Gtk: The control characters in tutorial.woman are still styled with the variable-width font since its rendered in STYLE_CONTROLCHAR (36), which is reset in woman.tes. @@ -198,8 +204,6 @@ Features: insert commands with default escape chars. Then this could be part of fnkeys.tes. * :$ and :$$ to pop/return only single values - * allow top-level macros to influence the proces return code. - This can be used in macros to call $$ or ^C akin to exit(1). * Special macro assignment command. It could use the SciTECO parser for finding the end of the macro definition which is more reliable than @^Uq{}. @@ -221,9 +225,6 @@ Features: be no more real need for command variants with disabled string building (as string building will naturally always be disabled in parser-terminator-mode). - Instead, a special string building character for disabling - string building character processing can be introduced, - and all the command variants like EI and EU can be repurposed. Q-Reg specs should support alternative balanced escapes as well for symmetry. * Numbers could be separate states instead of stack operating @@ -325,18 +326,18 @@ Features: * ER command: read file(s) into current buffer at dot. Video TECO accepts a glob pattern here. * nEW to save a buffer by id - * EI is used to open an indirect macro file in classic TECO. - EM should thus be renamed EI. - EM (position magtape in classic TECO) would be free again, - e.g. for execute macro with string argument or as a special version - of EI that considers $SCITECOPATH. - Current use of EI (insert without string building) will have - to move, but it might vanish anyway once we can disable string building - with a special character, eg. you could write I^C instead. + * EI$ would "resume" command input from the terminal in TECO-11. + But how is that different from ^C/$$ in SciTECO? + * In TECOC, <EI> searches the TEC_LIBRARY and ignores the file extension. + This is generally very useful to have, how to force a file name verbatim? + You can always add a leading `./` of course. + * <^C> actually returns all the way back to the command-line in + TECO-11, ie. it aborts the current command string. + This cannot be fully reproduced in SciTECO, but we could + return from all the stack frames up to the toplevel macro. * <I> doesn't have string building enabled in classic TECO. Changing this would perhaps be a change too radical. Also, we would then need a string-building variant like <:I>. - * <FN> as a search-replace variant of <N>. * FB for bounded search and FC for bounded search-replace. One advantage in comparison to ::S (which also supports arguments in SciTECO), would be the ability @@ -348,10 +349,8 @@ Features: just like in Video TECO. The DEC behavior could be achieved by always searching till the end of the buffer, but excluding all matches beyond the target range. - * ^A, :Gq, T and stdio in general - * nA returned -1 in case of invalid positions (similar to SciTECO's ^E) - instead of failing in DEC TECO. - The failing <A> command is inherited from Video TECO. + * ^A, :Gq, T, ^T and stdio in general + * ^B as the current date. We should probably copy TECOC's behavior here. * ^W was an immediate action command to repaint the screen. This could be a regular command to allow refreshing in long loops. Video TECO had ET for the same purpose. @@ -378,8 +377,10 @@ Features: that could be considered by all loops etc. * Video TECO: EQq...$ accepts glob patterns and reads all files into the register. But we probably won't want to have that. - * :EB -> Bool on VT. + * :EB -> Bool on Video TECO. * Video TECO: EV as an alias for EB, but create read-only buffer. + * Return a random value between 1 and n. + Could automatically work with floats. * n:"x to leave <n> on the stack (i.e. only peek). This simplifies expressions like Qa"N Qa ... * Perhaps there should be a pattern match construct for word characters @@ -710,6 +711,11 @@ Features: in a Git revision, that's printed by `sciteco --help`. But it would have to work with tarballs as well, so it has to be written into a separate header, that can be distributed. + * Perhaps undefined operations like -(X) should check X for MININT. + * Use Cirrus CI instead of Github Actions + Allows us to do CI on FreeBSD and potentially other more obscure systems. + Also, this will allow us to migrate to another hoster like + Savannah or Sourcehut later on. Optimizations: * Use SC_DOCUMENTOPTION_STYLES_NONE in batch mode. @@ -812,6 +818,12 @@ Optimizations: atexit() callbacks are apparently called before the destructors. * Are there any numerical warnings we could activate? There have been quite some bugs due to numeric issues. + -Wsign-compare -Wconversion + * Add build system support for some static code analyzer. + scan-build, clang-tidy or CodeChecker? + Or run scan-build in CI with a selection of fatal warnings. + * The unix.Malloc check unfortunately produces countless bogus warnings + due to g_auto. Documentation: * Doxygen docs could be deployed on Github pages |