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* This port is quite basic and does not yet allow building Gtk versions.
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* This is supposed to allow new users without any prior exposure to SciTECO
to pick up the basics of practical usage of SciTECO as an editor.
It almost does not elaborate on scripting-side of things.
* This requires a full Groff installation, so the document is not built by default.
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* replace actions/upload-artifact with pyTooling/Actions/releaser
* The release URL will never change:
https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/releases/tag/nightly
* On the downside there is now a "nightly" tag in the repo that will
be updated to HEAD whenever a nightly build runs - but other than that it does no harm.
* Compared with artifacts, the new method has several advantages:
* No more nightly.link Github App required
* We can add arbitrary files into releases and no longer have to ZIP everything.
So you can now download the Debian packages separately, the Mac OS "package" is a tar.gz
(instead of zipped tar).
For the Windows packages not much changes, though.
* Files get updated in the "Nightly Builds" release even when individual jobs in the
nightly.yml workflow fail.
With artefacts, the entire workflow must be successful.
* Releases are not deleted after 90 days as opposed to artefacts.
So when my workflow breaks next time, there will still be files to download
for a long time.
* As a downside, the file names in the release have to be uniform and must not contain
versions, commit hashes and dates so that uploads replace old files instead of adding
new ones.
Some manual cleanup could still be necessary after large packaging changes.
This could be worked around, by uploading everything first as artefacts and updating the
release in a separate job, but is not worth the trouble IMHO.
* Another disadvantage is that there will be no old nightly builds to download
(although these were not easily downloadable for end users before).
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* Only x86_64 builds are supported for the time being.
They have been tested on Mac OS 10.15 (Darling) and 11 (thanks to @dertuxmalwieder).
* Curses glitches remain on Mac OS as reported by @dertuxmalwieder.
Under Darling with a Linux terminal emulator, everything looks as it should.
* We don't build AppBundles or pkg installers but instead came up with a rather
ideosyncratic way of packaging:
The packages are tarballs of the installation tree with all dependant libraries
added under /usr/local/lib/sciteco - thanks to dylibbundler.
The archives are supposed to be unpacked into the UNIX tree root (`tar -C / -xf sciteco.tar`)
and it will be necessary to "de-quarantine" all the binaries.
Details will be documented in the wiki:
https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/wiki/Mac-OS-Support
* Perhaps we will also ship an installation script (TODO).
* AppBundles would have the disadvantage that they cannot be directly installed
into $PATH. On the other hand, this would be relatively easy to do afterwards.
An AppBundle would need certain code adaptions for Mac OS, though.
* Gtk+ builds are not yet supported as I cannot test them with "Darling".
* All Nightly Build artifact names now mention the target architecture.
* build Win32 nightly builds with windows-2019
* May improve compatibility slightly in the future as we should
always build our binaries on the oldest possible system.
* Does not change anything currently since windows-2019 == windows-latest.
* CI still uses windows-latest and may therefore one day switch to windows-2022.
* updated README
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* follow the current terminology:
* PDCurses/Win32a is now called PDCursesMod and includes all other PDCurses ports as well.
The Win32 GUI port is now called PDCurses/WinGUI.
* PDCurses/Win32 is now called PDCurses/WinCon.
* Since PDCursesMod supports WinCon as well, we use the PDCURSES_MOD macro only
to detect PDCursesMod API extensions.
GUIs (detached from system console) might be available both in classic PDCurses as well
as in PDCursesMod.
Only PDCursesMod allows detection of the port used *at runtime* using PDC_get_version().
We therefore introduced a --with-interface=pdcurses-gui that must be given whenever
compiling for any kind of GUI port (including SDL on "classic" PDCurses).
* The PDCURSES macro is used to detect all PDCurses (whether classic or PDCursesMod) API extensions.
* __PDCURSES__ is used to detect PDCurses whenever API extensions are not required.
* Assume that A_UNDERLINE now works even on WinCon.
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* turns out that we need icon themes and pixbuf loaders as well
* GTK assumes an UNIX like hierarchy, so we package sciteco.exe and
all DLLs into a bin/ subdir.
* The SciTECO icons probably shouldn't be in bin/.
If we installed them into the hicolor icon theme, GTK might
pick them up automatically. This would work under Windows and UNIX.
* The GTK builds are still broken.
I do really need a real system (MSYS installation) to play around.
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* I could not get malloc replacement via dlmalloc to work.
This does not work like on Linux by overwriting weak malloc() functions.
It should theoretically be possible to overwrite the default malloc zone
but I could not properly debug this since I can only build for Mac OS
via CI.
* memory polling seems to work though - test suite runs through
and it includes memory limiting test cases.
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builds) and include Gtk+ versions
* The CI tests are unchanged. The workflow file has been renamed to ci.yml, though.
* Nightly builds are described by nightly.yml and are built at 4:13.
* Nightly Ubuntu package builds now include the Gtk+ 3 packages.
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nightly builds in README
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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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* this is actually another independant Curses implementation for
Unix platforms I wasn't aware of.
I tested against this portable fork of it:
https://github.com/sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses
* Only a mimimal change to Scinterm was necessary to support it.
* netbsd-curses might be useful for NetBSD support (which is
otherwise untested) and when building small statically
linked self-contained binaries since netbsd-curses is much
smaller than ncurses.
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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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* Haiku can be handled like UNIX in most respects
since it is POSIX compliant, has a UNIX-like terminal
emulator and uses ncurses.
* still the Glib platform macro is G_OS_HAIKU instead of
G_OS_UNIX, so the preprocessor conditionals had to be adapted.
* the only functional difference between a Haiku and UNIX build
is the default SCITECOCONFIG path.
We use the config path returned by Glib instead of $HOME,
so .teco_ini will be in ~/config/settings on Haiku.
Other UNIX ports appear to use the same conventions.
* Some Haiku-specific restrictions still apply:
* Haiku's terminal is xterm-compatible, but only supports
8 colors. Therefore only the terminal.tes color scheme
can be used and the terminal must be set up to
"Use bright instead of bold text".
* The terminal has artifacts. This appears to be a Haiku
bug and affects other curses applications as well.
* GTK is yet unsupported on Haiku, so there may never be
a GUI port (unless someone writes a QT GUI for SciTECO).
* SciTECO cannot be built with the legacy gcc2 used for
BeOS compatibility on Haiku. This would require too many
changes for an obsolete platform.
BeOS and the x86_gcc2 platform of Haiku will therefore
never be supported.
The PPC and ARM platforms of Haiku should work but are untested.
* a HaikuPorts recipe will be provided for the next regular
SciTECO release. This should hopefully allow installation via
HaikuDepot.
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* fnkeys.tes has been updated to enable the command line
editing macros (cursor keys, etc.) only in the "start" state.
This avoids the annoying effect of inserting the macros
into string arguments where they have no effect and must be
rubbed out again.
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removal of ^T
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* list download archives in README instead
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* cleaned up dependency list
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may be used to have multiple scinterm-versions in the Scintilla source tree
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in the future, I might submit a more elaborate Scintilla patch for configuring
the control code strings.
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fixes PDCurses support)
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