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--enable-html-docs
* `--enable-html-manual` renamed to `--enable-html-docs`.
* It's also uploaded to the website and linked to in README.
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* Added a test case for the known bug of out-of-place modifiers.
Well, this is a syntactic shortcoming rather than a true bug.
But I did run into it more than once.
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* The Autoconf defaults are actually biased in favor of GCC,
so on systems with GCC and Clang, Autoconf would pick GCC.
* Instead we now always default to `cc` and `c++`, i.e. the
system's default compiler.
* This means, we will compile with Clang by default on FreeBSD.
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* As an alternative to OSC-52, which is rarely supported by terminal emulators.
* Makes the new mouse support much more useful since you rely on good builtin
clipboard support. You can no longer e.g. just double-click a word to copy it into
the "primary" selection as terminal emulators do by default.
* Set $SCITECO_CLIPBOARD_SET/GET e.g. to xclip, way-copy, pbcopy or some wrapper script.
* This is currently using POSIX-specific popen() API, so it behaves a bit different
to command execution via EC/EG.
I am not sure if it's worth rewriting with the GSpawn-API, since it will be used
only on POSIX anyway and a GSpawn-based implementation is likely to be a bit larger.
* Should there be some small command-line utility for interacting (esp. pasting) via OSC-52,
built-in OSC-52 support could well be removed from SciTECO.
Currently, I know only of https://github.com/theimpostor/osc/ and it requires
very recent Go compilers. (I still haven't tested it. Quite possibly, pasting when run as
a piped command is impossible.)
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* You need to set 0,64ED to enable mouse processing in Curses.
It is always enabled in Gtk as it should never make the experience worse.
sample.teco_ini enables mouse support, since this should be the new default.
`sciteco --no-profile` won't have it enabled, though.
* On curses, it requires the ncurses mouse protocol version 2, which will
also be supported by PDCurses.
* Similar to the Curses API, a special key macro ^KMOUSE is inserted if any of the supported
mouse events has been detected.
* You can then use -EJ to get the type of mouse event, which can be used
with a computed goto in the command-line editing macro.
Alternatively, this could have been solved with separate ^KMOUSE:PRESSED,
^KMOUSE:RELEASED etc. pseudo-key macros.
* The default ^KMOUSE implementation in fnkeys.tes supports the following:
* Left click: Edit command line to jump to position.
* Ctrl+left click: Jump to beginning of line.
* Right click: Insert position or position range (when dragging).
* Double right click: insert range for word under cursor
* Ctrl+right click: Insert beginning of line
* Scroll wheel: scrolls (faster with shift)
* Ctrl+scroll wheel: zoom (GTK-only)
* Currently, there is no visual feedback when "selecting" ranges
via right-click+drag.
This would be tricky to do and most terminal emulators do not appear
to support continuous mouse updates.
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* This is not simply determined at compile-time but queries the concrete path
at least on Windows and OS X.
* The Windows implementation is kind of hacky and relies on undocumented behavior.
It's also not even tested yet!
* On Linux and FreeBSD completions will always be case-sensitive as they used to be.
There does not appear to be any API to query case sensitivity of a given path or even
the entire file system.
At most, we could white-list a number of case-insensitive file systems.
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g_module along with glib anyway
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* Turns out that on SunOS/OmniOS the ncurses port does not ship with
a ncursesw pkg-config file, but the ncurses file is for a version,
that does contain widechar support as well.
* Instead of adding yet another recursive PKG_CHECK_MODULES() call,
we now use the AX_WITH_CURSES() macro, which is probably more robust.
This should at least fix ./configure on OmniOS.
* It also adds a number of feature C macros, that could be useful to
check in the future.
* At the moment, we strive to support all X/Open-compatible Curses
libraries, but both enhanced and color functions are required.
Therefore plain SVr4 Curses is not supported.
* source: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_with_curses.html
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* @ES/SCI_SETILEXER/lib^@name/ now opens the lexer <name> in library <lib>.
* You need to define the environment variable $SCITECO_SCINTILLUA_LEXERS to point
to the lexers/ subdirectory (containing the *.lua files).
Perhaps this should default to the dirname of <lib>?
* The semantics of SCI_NAMEOFSTYLE have been changed:
It now returns style ids when given style names, so you can actually write
Scintillua lexer *.tes files.
This will be superfluous if we had a way to return strings from Scintilla messages into
Q-Registers, e.g. 23@EPq/SCI_NAMEOFSTYLE/.
* We now depend on gmodule as well, but it should always be part of glib.
It does not change the library dependencies of any package.
It might result in gmodule shared libraries to be bundled in the Win32 and Mac OS
packages if they weren't already.
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This release is mainly for the upcoming FreeBSD package.
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non-relocatable binary)
* This was accidentally installing into $bindir/usr (usually /usr/local/bin/usr/...)
You might want to check whether SciTECO accidentally installed something there.
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The next release will include almost exclusively bug fixes.
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* You can now specify `--with-scitecodatadir` as a relative path,
that will be interpreted relative to the binary's location.
* Win32 binaries already were relocatable, but this was a Windows-specific
hack. Win32 binaries are now built with `--with-scitecodatadir=.`
since everything is in a single directory.
* Ubuntu packages are now also built `--with-scitecodatadir=../share/sciteco`.
This is not crucial for ordinary installations, but is meant for AppImage creation.
* Since AppImages are now built from relocatable packages,
we no longer need the unionfs-workaround from pkg2appimage.
This should fix the strange root contents when autocompleting in
AppImage builds.
* This might also fix the appimage.github.io CI issues.
I assume that because I could reproduce the issue on FreeBSD's
Linuxulator in dependence of pkg2appimage's "union"-setting.
See https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/pull/3402
* Determining the binary location actually turned out be hard and
very platform-dependant. There are now implementations for Windows
(which could also read argv[0]), Linux and generic UNIX (which
works on FreeBSD, but I am not sure about the others).
I believe this could also be useful on Mac OS to create app bundles,
but this needs to be tested - currently the Mac OS binaries are
installed into fixed locations and don't use relocation.
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Supposing that any monkey hitting keys on a typewriter, serving as a hardcopy
SciTECO terminal, will sooner or later trigger bugs and crash the application,
the new monkey-test.apl script emulates such a monkey.
In fact it's a bit more elaborate as the generated macro follows the frequency
distribution extracted from the corpus of SciTECO macro files (via monkey-parse.apl).
This it is hoped, increases the chance to get into "interesting" parser states.
This also adds a new hidden --sandbox argument, but it works only on FreeBSD (via Capsicum)
so far. In sandbox mode, we cannot open any file or execute external commands.
It is made sure, that SciTECO cannot assert in sandbox mode for scripts that would
run without --sandbox, since assertions are the kind of things we would like to detect.
SciTECO must be sandboxed during "infinite monkey" tests, so it cannot accidentally
do any harm on the system running the tests.
All macros in sandbox mode must currently be passed via --eval.
Alternatively, we could add a test compilation unit and generate the test data
directly in memory via C code.
The new scripts are written in GNU APL 1.9 and will probably work only under FreeBSD.
These scripts are not meant to be run by everyone.
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* The Mac OS package for v2.1.0 actually still encodes "2.0.0".
But I am going to ignore this. It's not worth fixing, considering the
experimental nature of the Mac OS builds.
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* This is necessary to fix the Unicode test suite on Win32,
so I was always passing in --disable-shared manually.
It's easy to forget though when building from scratch.
* We don't currently install any (shared) library, so this is safe
on all platforms.
In fact on all other platforms, libtool detects that and doesn't
generate wrapper binaries in any way.
Only on win32 it's apparently buggy.
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* Unfortunately, the list in sciteco(7) does not format with FreeBSD's man or
within SciTECO.
* Removed references to the old sciteco.sf.net.
We don't have a proper "homepage" for the time being.
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should slightly reduce binary size
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* turns out that glib's g_assert() does not depend on NDEBUG like Standard C's assert()
* this disables assertions in release builds and should speed up things slightly
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* Some platforms like Ubuntu actually ship widechar and non-widechar versions
of ncurses with different pkg-config files.
Other platforms like FreeBSD will ship an "ncursesw" and "ncurses" pkg-config file
but both point to the same wide-char library anyway.
* Currently we are not using wide-char APIs to ensure maximum compatibility even with
embedded systems where ncurses might be built without widechar support.
But in order to handle Unicode correctly, we still need to link against the widechar version
of ncurses (if available).
* Compilation on platforms without a widechar ncurses is now handled by the common
AC_CHECK_LIB() fallback (which might actually find a widechar version anyway if it just
didn't install the pkg-config file).
If necessary, we could also check for the "ncurses" package if "ncursesw" is not found.
* This fixes Unicode display and input on Ubuntu.
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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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* probably not necessary for std::thread support in Scintilla
* should fix MinGW nightly builds
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* This is also the base of $SCITECOPATH.
* Changing it is useful for packaging where it is not possible to factor out the common
files between Curses and Gtk builds into a "sciteco-common" package.
As an alternative, you can now create disjunct sciteco-curses and sciteco-gtk packages.
* You will most likely want to use this for Gtk builds as in:
--with-interface=gtk --program-prefix=g --with-scitecodatadir=/usr/local/share/gsciteco.
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default now
* On FreeBSD both the dlmalloc replacement and poll-thread via sysctl() work
but the poll-thread has been benchmarked to be significantly faster,
at least on my machine.
You can still ./configure --enable-malloc-replacement of course.
* Interestingly, the RSS of the process visible via htop does not decrease
after OOMs or command-line terminations - with neither of the implementations.
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* teco_interrupt() turned out to be unsuitable to kill child processes (eg. when <EB> hangs).
Instead, we have Win32-specific code now.
* Since SIGINT can be ignored on UNIX, pressing CTRL+C was not guaranteed to kill the
child process (eg. when <EB> hangs).
At the same time, it makes sense to send SIGINT first, so programs can terminate gracefully.
The behaviour has therefore been adapted: Interrupting with CTRL+C the first time will kill
gracefully. The second time, a more agressive signal is sent to kill the child process.
Unfortunately, this would be relatively tricky and complicated to do on Windows, so CTRL+C will always
"hard-kill" the child process.
* Moreover, teco_interrupt() killed the entire process on Windows when called the second time.
This resulted in any interruption to terminate SciTECO unexpectedly when tried the second time on Gtk/Win32.
* teco_sigint_occurred renamed to teco_interrupted:
There may be several different sources for setting this flag.
* Checking for CTRL+C on Gtk involves driving the main event loop repeatedly.
This is a very expensive operation. We now do that only every 100ms. This is still sufficient since
keyboard input comes from humans.
This optimization saves 75% runtime on Windows and 90% on Linux.
* The same optimization turned out to be contraproductive on PDCurses/WinGUI.
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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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workaround
* The keyboard hook required polling as well and was actually much less performant
than the generic getch() polling fallback.
Furthemore it did at least not work on Wine.
* We instead now release the WinGUI-internal mutex and yield the thread giving
it some time to process new key presses.
* This workaround is temporary and will probably be part of the the next PDCursesMod-release
(v4.3.4). We still want to support the latest MSYS/MinGW version though which is
currently at v4.3.2.
The fix will also currently only work when statically linking in libpdcurses_wingui.a.
This is what we do for nightly builds.
See also https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod/issues/197
* Once the fix is released upstream and into MSYS, we should probably bump our
minimal required PDCursesMod version.
The color-table workaround (cf9ffc0cec0d2e55930238d1752209bca659c96d) can then also be removed.
* We should also consider dropping official support for the classic PDCurses and support
only PDCursesMod - this will allow us to simplify interfaces-curses/interface.c a bit.
Support for classic PDCurses is probably broken by now anyway and trying to support it
is just too much.
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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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* This simplifies writing CFLAGS="-g -O0" CXXFLAGS="-g -O0".
* We build "release" binaries by default.
NDEBUG will now be defined unless you specify --enable-debug.
This enables some optimizations that have long been implemented but were never actually active:
* SciTECO shuts down faster since it will not explicitly free memory.
On the downside, this would complicate memory debugging with Valgrind/memcheck.
* dlmalloc is built with -DINSECURE=1 which is supposedly a bit faster.
Some compilers also complained about an unportable preprocessor usage which should
now be gone.
* All CI builds are now with --enable-debug.
This will slow them down but ensure that more code is executed and thus tested.
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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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* PDC_WIDE must be defined before including curses.h if the library
is also built against PDC_WIDE.
* Fixes building against PDCursesMod during Nightly Builds, ie.
fixes the current Win32 curses builds.
* The same problem exists for PDC_RGB.
It cannot currently be autodetected, so you must currently manually include
PDCURSES_CFLAGS="-DPDC_RGB" if you built your PDCurses with PDC_RGB.
The same will be true for PDC_NCMOUSE once we support mouses.
You best leave these settings in their defaults (disabled) if you have
control over the PDCurses build.
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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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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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* 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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`-fno-optimize-strlen` is not supported on Clang and there is no way
to ignore unknown arguments.
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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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detect EMCurses
* Emscripten can be used (theoretically) to build a host-only platform-independant version
of SciTECO (running under node.js instead of the browser).
* I ported netbsd-curses with Emscripten for that purpose. Therefore, adaptions for running
in the browser are restricted to EMcurses now.
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* Array allocations were not properly accounted since the compiler
would call the replacement new() which assumes that it would
always be called along with the replacement sized-deletion.
This is not true for array new[] allocations resulting in
a constant increase of memory_usage and unrecoverable situations.
This problem however could be fixed in principle by avoiding
memory counting for arrays or falling back to malloc_usable_size.
* The bigger problem was that some STLs (new_allocator) are broken, calling the
non-sized delete for regular new() calls which could in principle
be matched by sized-delete.
This is also the reason why I had to provide a non-sized
delete replacement, which in reality intoduced memory leaks.
* Since adding checks for the broken compiler versions or a configure-time
check that tries to detect these broken systems seems tedious,
I simply removed that optimization.
* This means we always have to rely on malloc_usable_size() now
for non-SciTECO-object memory measurement.
* Perhaps in the future, there should be an option for allowing
portable measurement at the cost of memory usage, by prefixing
each memory chunk with the chunk size.
Maintainers could then decide to optimize their build for "speed"
at the cost of memory overhead.
* Another solution to this non-ending odyssey might be to introduce
our own allocator, replacing malloc(), and allowing our own
precise measurements.
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Automakefiles could be simplified by updating CXXFLAGS
in configure.ac instead.
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support
* Since netbsd-curses can act as a drop-in replacement to ncurses,
SciTECO builds with --with-interface=ncurses as well.
However, it is unintuitive for users to build with ncurses support
when actually linking against netbsd-curses; so another option has been added.
* The UNIX/TTY specific code (which works with both ncurses and netbsd-curses)
was selected when NCURSES was detected at build-time.
This does not work for netbsd-curses, so we define a new symbol
NETBSD_CURSES. At build-time, a CURSES_TTY macro may now be defined.
* This effectively fixes the stdio in interactive mode, window titles
and the XTerm clipboard support for netbsd-curses.
Some minor features like the reduced ESCDELAY are still broken.
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been shown to be unacceptably broken, so the fallback implementation has been improved
* mallinfo() is not only broken on 64-bit systems but slows things
down linearilly to the memory size of the process.
E.g. after 500000<%A>, SciTECO will act sluggish! Shutting down
afterwards can take minutes...
mallinfo() was thus finally discarded as a memory measurement
technique.
* Evaluating /proc/self/statm? has also been evaluated and discarded
because doing this frequently is even slower.
* Instead, the fallback implementation has been drastically improved:
* If possible use C++14 global sized deallocators, allowing memory measurements
across the entire C++ code base with minimal runtime overhead.
Since we only depend on C++11, a lengthy Autoconf check had to be introduced.
* Use malloc_usable_size() with global non-sized deallocators to
measure the approx. memory usage of the entire process (at least
the ones done via C++).
The cheaper C++11 sized deallocators implemented via SciTECO::Object still
have precedence, so this affects Scintilla code only.
* With both improvements the test case
sciteco -e '<@EU[X^E\a]"^E\a"%a>'
is handled sufficiently well now on glibc and performance is much better
now.
* The jemalloc-specific technique has been removed since it no longer
brings any benefits compared to the improved fallback technique.
Even the case of using malloc_usable_size() in strict C++ mode is
up to 3 times faster.
* The new fallback implementation might actually be good enough for
Windows as well if some MSVCRT-specific support is added, like
using _msize() instead of malloc_usable_size().
This must be tested and benchmarked, so we keep the Windows-specific
implementation for the time being.
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and added a FreeBSD/jemalloc-specific implementation
* largely reverts 39cfc573, but leaves in minor and documentation
changes.
* further experimentation of memory limiting using malloc() wrapping
has shown additional problems, like dlsym() calling malloc-functions,
further reducing the implementation to glibc-specific means.
This means there had been no implementation for FreeBSD and checks
would have to rely on undocumented internal implementation details
of different libcs, which is not a good thing.
* Other problems have been identified, like having to wrap calloc(),
guarding against underruns and multi-thread safety had been identified
but could be worked around.
* A technique by calculating the memory usage as sbrk(0) - &end
has been shown to be effective enough, at least on glibc.
However even on glibc it has shortcomings since malloc() will
somtimes use mmap() for allocations and the technique
relies on implementation details of the libc.
Furthermore another malloc_trim(0) had to be added to the error
recovery in interactive mode, since glibc does not adjust the program break
automatically (to avoid syscalls I presume).
* On FreeBSD/jemalloc, the sbrk(0) method totally fails because jemalloc
exclusively allocates via mmap() -> that solution was discarded as well.
* Since all evaluated techniques turn out to be highly platform
specific, I reverted to the simple and stable platform-specific
mallinfo() API on Linux.
* On FreeBSD/jemalloc, it's possible to use mallctl("stats.allocated")
for the same purpose - so it works there, too now.
It's slower than the other techniques, though.
* A lengthy discussion has been added to memory.cpp, so that we
do not repeat the previous mistakes.
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portable and faster hack
* Works by "hooking" into malloc() and friends and counting the
usable heap object sizes with malloc_usable_size().
Thus, it has no memory-overhead.
* Will work at least on Linux and (Free)BSD.
Other UNIXoid systems may work as well - this is tested by ./configure.
* Usually faster than even the fallback implementation since the
memory limit is hit earlier.
* A similar approach could be tried on Windows (TODO).
* A proper memory-limiting counting all malloc()s in the system can make
a huge difference as this test case shows:
sciteco -e '<@EU[X^E\a]"^E\a"%a>'
It will allocate gigabytes before hitting the 500MB memory limit...
* Fixed the UNIX-function checks on BSDs.
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