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* PDCurses is practically used only for Windows builds, which only I build presumably,
so it should be okay to bump the version.
* Older PDCurses versions had serious problems like not detecting BUTTONX_RELEASED events.
This was worked around and is fixed now.
Even the Wincon version behaves like ncurses now with regard to mouse events.
* We no longer have to support processing BUTTONX_CLICKED events.
On the downside the mouse mask had to be adapted.
* See also https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod/issues/330
* We also no longer have to call resize_term(0,0).
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* After installation, SciTECO will therefore start into a more userfriendly mode
even if the user does not create a custom ~/.teco_ini.
It is hoped that this will scare away less of new users, who
are not willing to read through all of the documentation.
Still, users are warned in the absence of ~/.teco_ini.
This warning however, might not be immediately visible, especially
not when running gsciteco without an attached console.
(This will change once I redo the UI and allow a number of messages
to be queued in the message area.)
* Theoretically, you could also just extend fallback.teco_ini from ~/.teco_ini,
but that would require installing it into $SCITECOPATH.
* Since the fallback profile will now be munged automatically
on a wide range of systems, we set up xclip only when detecting X11
($DISPLAY is non-empty).
E.g. when running under Wayland or the Linux console, you still won't
get the clipboard registers, which is probably better than having the
clipboard operations fail once you try to use them.
* xclip is now "suggested" on Debian/Ubuntu.
Unfortunately we cannot pull it in only in the presence of X11.
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* You no longer have to copy contrib/scintilla, contrib/scinterm and contrib/lexilla
manually to the build directory.
* It turns out, that Scintilla/Lexilla was supporting this since 2016.
Scintilla allows pointing to a source directory (srdir) and Lexilla to a binary directory (DIR_O).
* For Scinterm I opened a pull request in order to add srcdir/basedir variables:
https://github.com/orbitalquark/scinterm/pull/21
* `make distcheck` is therefore now also fixed.
* The FreeBSD package is now allowed to build out of source.
I haven't tested it yet.
* See also https://github.com/ScintillaOrg/lexilla/issues/266
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* it appears to behave similar to Mac OS with regard to recursions
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* actually everything is updated to their current HEADs but the aforementioned versions are close.
* Scintilla uses threads now, so we added checks for pthread.
To be on the safe side, we imported AX_PTHREAD from the Autoconf archives.
The flags are kept out of the ordinary build system, though and used only for compiling Scintilla
and for linking.
SciTECO may also use threads, but via Glib.
* Scinterm removed SCI_COLOR_PAIR(), so we re-added it to src/interface-curses/interface.c.
* There is an Asciidoc lexer now.
* The <Ix$> interruption bug (see TODO) is not fixed by this upgrade.
Perhaps the Mac OS version runs better now. Feedback is needed (refs #12).
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* This does not make sense for most SciTECO builds, but only when you
want to optimize for size as the lexers take up 50% of the compressed binary
size.
Without Lexilla, it should be possible get it compiled in about 500kb.
* It can be useful for instance when building for embedded distributions.
* When Lexilla is disabled, symbols-scilexer.c is also not generated
(we assume that the Lexilla sources are not available and it also doesn't serve any purpose).
* Consequently, most of the lexer configuration scripts are also not installed
under --without-lexilla.
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* allows us to get rid of some workarounds
* the workarounds themselves required relatively recent PDCursesMod
versions, so we can just as well bump the version yet another time.
We are probably the only ones building it (via Github actions) anyway.
* With v4.3.4 you should be able to link dynamically, but we are still
linking statically for nightly builds to keep binary sizes small.
Unfortunately, the glib builds shipping with MinGW still have
dynamically linked helper executables.
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* PDCursesMod is now the recommended PDCurses variant
* you should use at least v4.3.2 since earlier versions have problems
inserting CTRL+C and CTRL+V.
* We now check for PDC_get_version() since initscr() was name-mangled at least
for some time. The maintainers have now reverted to name-mangling endwin(),
we still check for PDC_get_version() as it is probably safer in the future.
* Properly define PDC_FORCE_UTF8 now.
* We no longer have to check for PDC_set_resize_limits() since PDCursesMod
now defines its own macro __PDCURSESMOD__ in curses.h.
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* Previous Scintilla version was 3.6.4 and Scinterm was 1.7 (with lots of custom patches).
All of the patches are now either irrelevant or have been merged upstream.
* Since Scintilla 5 requires C++17, this increases the minimum GCC version at least
to 5.0. We may actually require even newer versions.
* I could not upgrade the scintilla-mirror (which was imported from Mercurial),
so the old sciteco-dev branch was renamed to sciteco-dev-pre-v2.0.0,
master was deleted and I reimported the entire Scintilla repo using
git-remote-hg.
This means that scintilla-mirror now contains two entirely separate trees.
But it is still possible to clone old SciTECO repos.
* The strategy/workflow of maintaining hotfix branches on scintilla-mirror has been changed.
Instead of having one sciteco-dev branch that is rebased onto new Scintilla upstream
releases and tagging SciTECO releases in scintilla-mirror (to keep the commits referenced),
we now create a branch for every Scintilla version we are based on (eg. sciteco-rel-5-1-3).
This branch is never rebased or deleted. Therefore, we are guaranteed to be able to
clone arbitrary SciTECO repo commits - not only releases.
Releases no longer have to be tagged in scintilla-mirror.
On the downside, fixup commits may accumulate in these new branches.
They can only be squashed once a new branch for a new Scintilla release is created
(e.g. by cherry-picking followed by rebase).
* Scinterm does no longer have to reside in the Scintilla subdirectory,
so we added it as a regular submodule.
There are no more recursive submodules.
The Scinterm build system has not been improved at all, but we use
a trick based on VPATH to build Scinterm in scintilla/bin/.
* Scinterm is now in Git and we reference the upstream repo for the
time being.
We might mirror it and apply the same branching workflow as with Scintilla
if necessary.
The scinterm-mirror repository still exists but has not been touched.
We will also have to rewrite its master branch as it was a non-reproducible
Mercurial import.
* Scinterm now also comes with patches for Scintilla which we simply applied
on our sciteco-rel-5-1-3 branch.
* Scintilla 5 outsourced its lexers into the Lexilla project.
We added it as yet another submodule.
* All submodules have been moved into contrib/.
* The Scintilla API for setting lexers has consequently changed.
We now have to call SCI_SETILEXER(0, CreateLexer(name)).
As I did not want to introduce a separate command for setting lexers,
<ES> has been extended to allow setting lexers by name with the SCI_SETILEXER
message which effectively replaces SCI_SETLEXERLANGUAGE.
* The lexer macros (SCLEX_...) no longer serve any purpose - they weren't used
in the SciTECO standard library anyway - and have consequently been removed
from symbols-scilexer.c.
The style macros from SciLexer.h (SCE_...) are theoretically still useful - even
though they are not used by our current color schemes - and have therefore been
retained. They can be specified as wParam in <ES>.
* <ES> no longer allows symbolic constants for lParam.
This never made any sense since all supported symbols were always wParam.
* Scinterm supports new native cursor modes.
They are not used for the time being and the previous CARETSTYLE_BLOCK_AFTER
caret style is configured by default.
It makes no sense to enable native cursor modes now since the
command line should have a native cursor but is not yet a Scintilla view.
* The Scintilla upgrade performed much worse than before,
so some optimizations will be necessary.
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teco-gtk-label.gob to plain C
* Using modern GObject idioms and macros greatly reduces the necessary boilerplate code.
* The plain C versions of our GObject classes are now "final" (cannot be derived)
This means we can hide the instance structures from the headers and avoid using
explicit private fields.
* Avoids some deprecation warnings when building the Gtk UI.
* GOB2 is apparently no longer maintained, so this seems like a good idea in the long run.
* The most important reason however is that there is no precompiled GOB2 for Windows
which prevents compilation on native Windows hosts, eg. during nightly builds.
This is even more important as Gtk+3 is distributed on Windows practically
exclusively via MSYS.
(ArchLinux contains MinGW gtk3 packages as well, so cross-compiling from ArchLinux
would have been an alternative.)
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This is a total conversion of SciTECO to plain C (GNU C11).
The chance was taken to improve a lot of internal datastructures,
fix fundamental bugs and lay the foundations of future features.
The GTK user interface is now in an useable state!
All changes have been squashed together.
The language itself has almost not changed at all, except for:
* Detection of string terminators (usually Escape) now takes
the string building characters into account.
A string is only terminated outside of string building characters.
In other words, you can now for instance write
I^EQ[Hello$world]$
This removes one of the last bits of shellisms which is out of
place in SciTECO where no tokenization/lexing is performed.
Consequently, the current termination character can also be
escaped using ^Q/^R.
This is used by auto completions to make sure that strings
are inserted verbatim and without unwanted sideeffects.
* All strings can now safely contain null-characters
(see also: 8-bit cleanliness).
The null-character itself (^@) is not (yet) a valid SciTECO
command, though.
An incomplete list of changes:
* We got rid of the BSD headers for RB trees and lists/queues.
The problem with them was that they used a form of metaprogramming
only to gain a bit of type safety. It also resulted in less
readble code. This was a C++ desease.
The new code avoids metaprogramming only to gain type safety.
The BSD tree.h has been replaced by rb3ptr by Jens Stimpfle
(https://github.com/jstimpfle/rb3ptr).
This implementation is also more memory efficient than BSD's.
The BSD list.h and queue.h has been replaced with a custom
src/list.h.
* Fixed crashes, performance issues and compatibility issues with
the Gtk 3 User Interface.
It is now more or less ready for general use.
The GDK lock is no longer used to avoid using deprecated functions.
On the downside, the new implementation (driving the Gtk event loop
stepwise) is even slower than the old one.
A few glitches remain (see TODO), but it is hoped that they will
be resolved by the Scintilla update which will be performed soon.
* A lot of program units have been split up, so they are shorter
and easier to maintain: core-commands.c, qreg-commands.c,
goto-commands.c, file-utils.h.
* Parser states are simply structs of callbacks now.
They still use a kind of polymorphy using a preprocessor trick.
TECO_DEFINE_STATE() takes an initializer list that will be
merged with the default list of field initializers.
To "subclass" states, you can simply define new macros that add
initializers to existing macros.
* Parsers no longer have a "transitions" table but the input_cb()
may use switch-case statements.
There are also teco_machine_main_transition_t now which can
be used to implement simple transitions. Additionally, you
can specify functions to execute during transitions.
This largely avoids long switch-case-statements.
* Parsers are embeddable/reusable now, at least in parse-only mode.
This does not currently bring any advantages but may later
be used to write a Scintilla lexer for TECO syntax highlighting.
Once parsers are fully embeddable, it will also be possible
to run TECO macros in a kind of coroutine which would allow
them to process string arguments in real time.
* undo.[ch] still uses metaprogramming extensively but via
the C preprocessor of course. On the downside, most undo
token generators must be initiated explicitly (theoretically
we could have used embedded functions / trampolines to
instantiate automatically but this has turned out to be
dangereous).
There is a TECO_DEFINE_UNDO_CALL() to generate closures for
arbitrary functions now (ie. to call an arbitrary function
at undo-time). This simplified a lot of code and is much
shorter than manually pushing undo tokens in many cases.
* Instead of the ridiculous C++ Curiously Recurring Template
Pattern to achieve static polymorphy for user interface
implementations, we now simply declare all functions to
implement in interface.h and link in the implementations.
This is possible since we no longer hace to define
interface subclasses (all state is static variables in
the interface's *.c files).
* Headers are now significantly shorter than in C++ since
we can often hide more of our "class" implementations.
* Memory counting is based on dlmalloc for most platforms now.
Unfortunately, there is no malloc implementation that
provides an efficient constant-time memory counter that
is guaranteed to decrease when freeing memory.
But since we use a defined malloc implementation now,
malloc_usable_size() can be used safely for tracking memory use.
malloc() replacement is very tricky on Windows, so we
use a poll thread on Windows. This can also be enabled
on other supported platforms using --disable-malloc-replacement.
All in all, I'm still not pleased with the state of memory
limiting. It is a mess.
* Error handling uses GError now. This has the advantage that
the GError codes can be reused once we support error catching
in the SciTECO language.
* Added a few more test suite cases.
* Haiku is no longer supported as builds are instable and
I did not manage to debug them - quite possibly Haiku bugs
were responsible.
* Glib v2.44 or later are now required.
The GTK UI requires Gtk+ v3.12 or later now.
The GtkFlowBox fallback and sciteco-wrapper workaround are
no longer required.
* We now extensively use the GCC/Clang-specific g_auto
feature (automatic deallocations when leaving the current
code block).
* Updated copyright to 2021.
SciTECO has been in continuous development, even though there
have been no commits since 2018.
* Since these changes are so significant, the target release has
been set to v2.0.
It is planned that beginning with v3.0, the language will be
kept stable.
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* especially to improve building on FreeBSD 11
* We need GNU Make, yet alone because Scintilla/Scinterm
needs it. We now document that dependency and added
an Autoconf check from the autoconf-archive.
We make sure that the build process is invoked with GNU make
by generating only GNUmakefiles.
The Makefile.am files have not been renamed, so this
change can be rolled back easily.
* Some GNU-Make-specific autoreconf warnings have still been
resolved. But not all of them, as this would have been
unelegant and we need GNU Make anyway.
* Declare ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to appease autoreconf
* Added an explicit check for C++11 from the autoconf-archives.
In general we should support building with every C++11 compiler
that is sufficiently GNU-like.
* Do not use `sed` for inplace editing, as different sed-implementations
have mutually incompatible syntax for this.
Instead of declaring and checking a dependency on GNU sed,
we simply use SciTECO for the editing task.
This improves code portability on BSDs.
* Similarily, BSD/POSIX `cmp` is supported now.
This fixes the test suite on BSD without declaring a
dependency on the GNU coreutils.
* Simplified sciteco-wrapper generation.
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* the new "?" (help) command can be used to look up
help topics.
* help topics are index from $SCITECOPATH/women/*.woman.tec
files.
* looking up a help topic opens the corresponding "womanpage"
and jumps to the position of the topic (it acts like an anchor
into the document).
* styling is performed by *.woman.tec files.
* Setting up the Scintilla view and munging the *.tec file
is performed by the new "woman.tes" lexer.
On supporting UIs (Gtk), womanpages are shown in a variable-width
font.
* Woman pages are usually not hand-written, but generated from manpages.
A special Groff post-processor grosciteco has been introduced for this
purpose. It is much like grotty, but can output SciTECO macros for styling
the document (ie. the *.woman.tec files).
It is documented in its own man-page.
* grosciteco also introduces sciteco.tmac - special Troff macros
for controlling the formatting of the document in SciTECO.
It also defines .SCITECO_TOPIC which can be used to mark up
help topics/terms in Troff markup.
* Woman pages are generated/formatted by grosciteco at compile-time, so
they will work on platforms without Groff (ie. as on windows).
* Groff has been added as a hard compile-time requirement.
* The sciteco(1) and sciteco(7) man pages have been augmented with
help topic anchors.
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* the Github mirrors contain crucial patches not yet contributed
upstream, so people will currently rely on my Github mirror
repositories in order to build SciTECO
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* depend on Gtk+ 3.10. If necessary older versions should also
be supportable. GtkOverlay was already introduced in v3.2
* A fallback for GtkFlowBox is compiled in if the Gtk installation
is too old. This applies even to Ubuntu 14.04 which still runs
Gtk v3.10.
* the threading the Gtk UI is left as it is for the time being
even though the synchronization mechanism has been deprecated.
Alternative approaches have to be tried out and benchmarked.
* Completely revamped the GtkInfoPopup widget.
It is now as powerful as the Curses UI's popup widget.
* A GtkOverlay is used instead of the top-level window hack
in the Gtk2 version.
* GtkFlowBox is used to lay out the columns of the popup.
* I had to work around restrictions of GtkScrolledWindow
by writing my own poor-mans scrolled window which handles
size requests correctly.
* The popup window no longer overflows the screen size,
instead we scroll.
* Scrolling pagewise is finally supported. Wraps at the
end of a list just like the Curses UI.
* Instead of using only two stock icons, we now use
GIO to get file and directory icons for the current theme.
This looks even better.
* The GtkFlowBox allows selections which can be used for mouse
interaction later. But this is not yet implemented.
* Theming of the popup widget and command line is still
not performed correctly.
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* CTRL+C interruptions are now possible.
ncurses/win32 needs a noraw() (bug!?) and
the console_ctrl_handler for this to work.
* setting the window title is not possible on this port
* stdio output can be redirected, even in interactive mode.
Also, we can write to stdout/stderr even in interactive mode
without disrupting the terminal.
After endwin(), the user will see these messages (if they
haven't been redirected).
* there's one bug left:
the Scintilla cursor is not drawn correctly at the end of
lines.
* part of the solution to #4
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* enabled via --with-interface=xcurses, so we can configure
it automatically via xcurses-config.
This also adds XCURSES_CFLAGS and XCURSES_LIBS.
* The X11 window class name is set to "SciTECO".
X11 resource overrides can currently not be set via
sciteco's command line. The user may use .Xdefaults though.
* interruptions via CTRL+C are currently not supported.
Apparently, XCurses also does send SIGINT in cbreak() mode.
An XCurses-specific hack would be cumbersome.
* ~InterfaceCurses() should probably be rewritten.
Curses cleanup should be completely in restore_batch() as
the destructor may be called after Curses-cleanup handlers.
E.g. isendwin() SEGFAULTs on XCurses when called from the
destructor.
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* also added a warning about building on Windows
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* it's now at Scintilla v3.5.6 and Scinterm v1.6
* the Curses tab-stop fix was removed from the sciteco-dev branch
since Mitchell cared about getting it upstream.
It is part of Scintilla v3.5.5 and Scinterm v1.6.
Scinterm built fine with Scintilla v3.5.6, so we're using the
newer release.
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minimum version
* it was necessary to increase the upstream version so I could
upload new versions to launchpad while debugging PPA build issues.
* ChangeLog finalized for v0.6.4
* SciTECO requires at least libglib v2.28 (but that's only a guess)
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the most noticable change is that a scroll-bar is displayed
by default (Curses UI)
* INSTALL instructions updated
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Scintilla is now at v3.5.1 and Scinterm at v1.4 (actually one commit
after that and the sciteco-branch contains another fix for the Scinterm
Makefile)
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this should simplify building SciTECO for new users
* compiler and archiver are passed down from Autoconf,
so cross-compiling should work transparently
* `make clean` will also clean the Scintilla source tree
* there is no longer any need for "source bundles" as
tar balls also contain Scintilla/Scinterm now
* building from Git is not much more difficult than building
from a tar ball
* The versions of Scintilla/Scinterm embedded as submodules
already contain all the patches necessary (currently none are
necessary), so there's no need to have patch files in the
repository
* INSTALL instructions have been rewritten
* the --with-scintilla and --with-scinterm site-config options
have been kept. But they should be rarely necessary now.
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* this allows us to remove the last patch to the Scintilla/Scinterm code
base (for the time being at least)
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* allows us to remove most patches. One however is still necessary
(Scinterm Makefile bug!)
* TECO-style control code echoing is now set up using the SCI_SETREPRESENTATION message
* updated copyrights
* updated TODO
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* list download archives in README instead
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