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called tedoc.tes
* some code simplifications
* it now supports command line arguments via getopt.tes.
* the -C flag enabled C/C++ mode.
By default tedoc parses SciTECO code which means it can be used
to document macro packages as well.
* Therefore it is installed as a separate tool now.
It may be used as a Groff preprocessor for third-party macro
authors to generate (wo)man pages.
* there's a man page tedoc.tes(1)
* The troff placeholder macro is now called ".TEDOC".
* Help topics can now be specified after the starting comment /*$ or !*$.
Topics have been defined for all built-in commands.
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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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escape glob patterns
* globbing is fnmatch(3) compatible, now on every supported platform.
* which means that escaping of glob patterns is possible now.
^ENq has been introduced to ease this task.
* This finally allows you to pass unmodified filenames to EB.
Previously it was impossible to open file names containing glob wildcards.
* this was achieved by moving from GPattern to GRegex as the underlying
implementation.
* The glob pattern is converted to a regular expression before being
compiled to a GRegex.
This turned out to be trickier than anticipated (~140 lines of code)
and has a runtime penalty of course (complexity is O(2*n) over the
pattern length).
It is IMHO still better than the alternatives, like importing
external code from libiberty, which is potentially non-cross-platform.
* Using GRegex also opens the potential of supporting brace "expansions"
later in the form of glob pattern constructs
(they won't actually expand but match alternatives).
* is_glob_pattern() has been simplified and moved to Globber::is_pattern().
It makes sense to reuse the Globber class namespace instead of using
plain functions for functions working on glob patterns.
* The documentation has a new subsection on glob patterns now.
* Testsuite extended with glob pattern test cases
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* mapped to different registers beginning with "~"
* on supported platforms accessing the clipboard is as easy as
X~ or G~.
Naturally this also allows clipboards to be pasted in
string arguments/insertions (^EQ~).
* Currently, Gtk+, PDCurses and ncurses/XTerm are supported.
For XTerm clipboard support, users must set 0,256ED to enable
it since we cannot check for XTerm window ops programmatically
(at least without libX11).
* When clipboard regs exist, the clipboard can also be deemed functional.
This allows macros to fall back to xclip(1) if necessary.
* EOL handling has been moved into a new file eol.c and eol.h.
EOL translation no longer depends on GIOChannels but can be
memory-backed as well.
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* Autotest ships with Autoconf, so it's available already
and relatively easy to integrate into an Autotools package.
* This is attached to `make check` using some Automake magic.
* The test suite will only call the built SciTECO for the time being.
But using tests/Makefile.am, custom programs could be easily
built.
* Since it uses the target sciteco, it cannot work in cross-compile
environments.
* The test suite tests/testsuite.at should be used for regression
tests at least: Whenever there is a bug, a test case should be
added to testsuite.at.
Later this might be split up into multiple includes for regressions
other tests.
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* acts like exit(3) -- ie. the program is terminated
immediately but the quit hook (aka SciTECO's atexit()
handlers) will still run.
* for "compatibility" with classic TECOs.
Can also be used as a shorter variant of "-EX$$"
but working from every macro level.
* disallowed in interactive mode to avoid typing it
accidentally.
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* Usually, Scintilla will now be built with -O2
* this can improve performance significantly over the standard Scintilla -Os
(up to 10%).
* this also allows link-time-optimizing both Scintilla and SciTECO
(which are linked statically) by adding -flto to CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
Link-time-optimization will both reduce the total binary size
and improve performance slightly since scintilla_send_message() can be
inlined.
An -O3 optimized Scintilla when linked with LTO results in an only 300kb
larger SciTECO binary.
* the highest possible optimization thus requires the following maintainer
flags on the ./configure command line:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=native -march=native -flto"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=native -march=native -flto"
LDFLAGS="-flto"
* Windows and Debian builds use link-time-optimization now.
On Windows - where we link in everything statically - building
the dependant libraries with -flto could improve performance
even more.
* Debian builds respect the default hardening flags of the build
server now. This should ensure that SciTECO is built for the
correct architecture at the recommended optimization level etc.
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* SciTECO commands are implemented with immediate execution in mind.
Those commands that do need to execute immediately while a string
command is entered, can do so using StateExpectString::process().
For simplicity, the parser just assumed that every input character
should result in immediate execution (if the command supports it
of course).
* This lead to unnecessarily slow execution of commands like <I> or
<S> in batch mode. E.g. a search was always repeated for every
character of the pattern - a N character pattern could result in
N searches instead of one.
Also in interactive mode when executing a macro
or repeating commands in a loop, immediate processing of string arguments
is unnecessary and results in superfluous undo tokens.
* These cases are all optimized now by being informed about
the necessity of providing immediate feedback via State::refresh().
This is used by StateExpectString to defer calling process() as
long as possible.
* For states extending StateExpectString, there is no change since
they can already process arbitrarily long strings.
The optimization is hidden in StateExpectString.
* some allocations are now also avoided in StateExpectString::custom().
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batch mode
* by using variadic templates, UndoStack::push() is now responsible
for allocating undo tokens. This is avoided in batch mode.
* The old UndoStack::push(UndoToken *) method has been made private
to avoid confusion around UndoStack's API.
The old UndoStack::push() no longer needs to handle !undo.enabled,
but at least asserts on it.
* C++11 support is now required, so variadic templates can be used.
This could have also been done using manual undo.enabled checks;
or using multiple versions of the template with different numbers
of template arguments.
The latter could be done if we one day have to support a non-C++11
compiler.
However since we're depending on GCC 4.4, variadic template use should
be OK.
Clang supports it since v2.9.
* Sometimes, undo token pushing passed ownership of some memory
to the undo token. The old behaviour was relied on to reclaim the
memory even in batch mode -- the undo token was always deleted.
To avoid leaks or repeated manual undo.enabled checking,
another method UndoStack::push_own() had to be
introduced that makes sure that an undo token is always created.
In batch mode (!undo.enabled), this will however create the object
on the stack which is much cheaper than using `new`.
* Having to know which kind of undo token is to be pushed (taking ownership
or not) is inconvenient. It may be better to add static methods to
the UndoToken classes that can take care of reclaiming memory.
* Benchmarking certain SciTECO scripts have shown 50% (!!!) speed increases
at the highest possible optimization level (-O3 -mtune=native -march=native).
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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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* activated via bit 4 of the ED flag (enabled by default)
* automatic EOL guessing on file loading and translation to LFs.
* works with files that have inconsistent EOL sequences.
* automatic translation to original EOL sequences on file saving
* works with inconsistent EOL sequences in the buffer.
This should usually not happen if the file was read in with
automatic EOL translation enabled.
* also works with the EC and EG commands
* performance is OK, depending on the file being translated.
When reading files with UNIX EOLs, the overhead is minimal
typically-sized files. For DOS EOLs the overhead is larger
but still acceptable.
* Return (line feed) is now an immediate editing command.
This centralizes EOL sequence insertion.
Later, other features like auto-indent could be added to
the editing command.
* get_eol() has been moved to main.cpp (now called
get_eol_seq()
* Warn if file ownership could not be preserved when
saving files.
* IOView has been almost completely rewritten based
on GIOChannels. The EOL translation code is also in IOView.
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* acts as a safe-guard against uninterrupted infinite loops
or other operations that are costly to undo in interactive mode.
If we're out of memory, it is usually too late to react properly.
This implementation tries to avoid OOMs due to SciTECO behaviour.
We cannot fully exclude the chance of an OOM error.
* The undo stack size is only approximated using the
UndoToken::get_size() method.
Other ways to measure the exact amount of allocated heap
(including size fields in every heap object or using sbrk(0) and
similar) are either costly in terms of memory or platform-specific.
This implementation does not need any additional memory per heap
object or undo token but exploits the fact that undo tokens
are virtual already. The size of an undo token is determined
at compile time.
* Default memory limit of 500mb should be OK for most people.
* The current limit can be queried with "2EJ" and set with <x>,2EJ.
This also works interactively (a bit tricky!)
* Limiting can be disabled. In this case, undo token processing
is a bit faster.
* closes #3
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* also did some whitespace cleanup in SciTECO now that tabs are
displayed properly
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optimized screen refreshing/redrawing
* pressing e.g. TAB when the popup is showing a list of auto-completions
will show the next page, eventually beginning at the first one again.
* do not redraw curses windows in the UI methods directly. this resulted
in flickering during command-line editing macros and ordinary macro calls
because the physical screen was updated immediately.
Instead, window refreshing and updated is done centrally in
event_loop_iter() only after a key has been processed.
Also we use wnoutrefresh() and doupdate() to send as little to the
terminal (emulator) as possible.
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* the GError expection has been renamed to GlibError, to avoid
nameclashes when working from the SciTECO namespace
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this breaks many existing scripts, and means you may have to rebuild SciTECO
with ./configure --enable-bootstrap
The syntax of SciTECO might change in backwards-incompatible until
version 1.0 is released.
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when the file name changes, there will no longer be a use-less
save point file. instead the new file is deleted upon rubout.
* save points are properly created if a file already exists
with the same name, even though it was not known to SciTECO before
the save. (e.g. you do save-as to a file that already exists).
* more effects of the save command can now be rubbed out correctly
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test case: 1<()>
* an empty brace (or content that does not leave anything on the stack)
resulted in the brace op to be left on the stack which makes the op stack
inconsistent
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* referencing temporaries is unreliable/buggy in GNU C++, at least since v4.7
* in higher optimization levels it resulted in massive memory corruptions
* this is responsible for the build issues (PPA build issues)
* instead, always declare a buffer on the stack which guarantees that the
variable lives long enough
* the g_strdup(CHR2STR(x)) idiom has been replaced with String::chrdup(x)
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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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