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* ALL keypresses (the UTF-8 sequences resulting from key presses) can now be remapped.
* This is especially useful with Unicode support, as you might want to alias
international characters to their corresponding latin form in the start state,
so you don't have to change keyboard layouts so often.
This is done automatically in Gtk, where we have hardware key press information,
but has to be done with key macros in Curses.
There is a new key mask 4 (bit 3) for that purpose now.
* Also, you might want to define non-ANSI letters to perform special functions in
the start state where it won't be accepted by the parser anyway.
Suppose you have a macro M→, you could define
@^U[^K→]{m→} 1^_U[^K→]
This effectively "extends" the parser and allow you to call macro "→" by a single
key press. See also #5.
* The register prefix has been changed from ^F (for function) to ^K (for key).
This is the only thing you have to change in order to migrate existing
function key macros.
* Key macros are enabled by default. There is no longer any way to disable
function key handling in curses, as I never found any reason or need to disable it.
Theoretically, the default ESCDELAY could turn out to be too small and function
keys don't get through. I doubt that's possible unless on extremely slow serial lines.
Even then, you'd have to increase ESCDELAY and instead of disabling function keys
simply define an escape surrogate.
* The ED flag has been removed and its place is reserved for a future mouse support flag
(which does make sense to disable in curses sometimes).
fnkeys.tes is consequently also enabled by default in sample.teco_ini.
* Key macros are handled as an unit. If one character results in an error,
the entire string is rubbed out.
This fixes the "CLOSE" key on Gtk.
It also makes sure that the original error message is preserved and not overwritten
by some subsequent syntax error.
It was never useful that we kept inserting characters after the first error.
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The following rules apply:
* All SciTECO macros __must__ be in valid UTF-8, regardless of the
the register's configured encoding.
This is checked against before execution, so we can use glib's non-validating
UTF-8 API afterwards.
* Things will inevitably get slower as we have to validate all macros first
and convert to gunichar for each and every character passed into the parser.
As an optimization, it may make sense to have our own inlineable version of
g_utf8_get_char() (TODO).
Also, Unicode glyphs in syntactically significant positions may be case-folded -
just like ASCII chars were. This is is of course slower than case folding
ASCII. The impact of this should be measured and perhaps we should restrict
case folding to a-z via teco_ascii_toupper().
* The language itself does not use any non-ANSI characters, so you don't have to
use UTF-8 characters.
* Wherever the parser expects a single character, it will now accept an arbitrary
Unicode/UTF-8 glyph as well.
In other words, you can call macros like M§ instead of having to write M[§].
You can also get the codepoint of any Unicode character with ^^x.
Pressing an Unicode character in the start state or in Ex and Fx will now
give a sane error message.
* When pressing a key which produces a multi-byte UTF-8 sequence, the character
gets translated back and forth multiple times:
1. It's converted to an UTF-8 string, either buffered or by IME methods (Gtk).
On Curses we could directly get a wide char using wget_wch(), but it's
not currently used, so we don't depend on widechar curses.
2. Parsed into gunichar for passing into the edit command callbacks.
This also validates the codepoint - everything later on can assume valid
codepoints and valid UTF-8 strings.
3. Once the edit command handling decides to insert the key into the command line,
it is serialized back into an UTF-8 string as the command line macro has
to be in UTF-8 (like all other macros).
4. The parser reads back gunichars without validation for passing into
the parser callbacks.
* Flickering in the Curses UI and Pango warnings in Gtk, due to incompletely
inserted and displayed UTF-8 sequences, are now fixed.
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* When enabled with bit 2 in the ED flags (0,4ED),
all registers and buffers will get the raw ANSI encoding (as if 0EE had been
called on them).
You can still manually change the encoding, eg. by calling 65001EE afterwards.
* Also the ANSI mode sets up character representations for all bytes >= 0x80.
This is currently done only depending on the ED flag, not when setting 0EE.
* Since setting 16,4ED for 8-bit clean editing in a macro can be tricky -
the default unnamed buffer will still be at UTF-8 and at least a bunch
of environment registers as well - we added the command line option
`--8bit` (short `-8`) which configures the ED flags very early on.
As another advantage you can mung the profile in 8-bit mode as well
when using SciTECO as a sort of interactive hex editor.
* Disable UTF-8 checks in 8-bit clean mode (sample.teco_ini).
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or codepoints) (refs #5)
* This is trickier than it sounds because there isn't one single place to consult.
It depends on the context.
If the string argument relates to buffer contents - as in <I>, <S>, <FR> etc. -
the buffer's encoding is consulted.
If it goes into a register (EU), the register's encoding is consulted.
Everything else (O, EN, EC, ES...) expects only Unicode codepoints.
* This is communicated through a new field teco_machine_stringbuilding_t::codepage
which must be set in the states' initial callback.
* Seems overkill just for ^EUq, but it can be used for context-sensitive
processing of all the other string building constructs as well.
* ^V and ^W cannot be supported for Unicode characters for the time being without an Unicode-aware parser
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* This will naturally work with both ASCII characters and various
non-English scripts.
* Unfortunately, it cannot work with the other non-ANSI single-byte codepages.
* If we'd like to support scripts working with all sorts of codepoints,
we'd have to introduce a new command for translating individual codepoints
from the current codepage (as reported by EE) to Unicode.
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* It's generally a bad idea to pass backslashes as a glyph in macro arguments, even as `\\`
since this could easily be interpreted as an escape.
* Instead we now always use `\[rs]`.
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* was introduced in e7867fb0
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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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* .SCITECO_TT should be before .EX, so that the indent is already monospaced.
.SCITECO_TT_END still needs to be before .EE however, so that the next
non-monospaced line is not "typeset" with a monospaced indent.
* naturally only affects the Gtk UI
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* fixes test cases like 3<%a:>
* you can now use :F< in pass-through loops as well
* F> outside of loops will now exit the current macro level.
This is analogous to what TECO-11 did.
In interactive mode, F> is currently also equivalent to $$
(terminates command line).
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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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* when enabled, it will automatically upper-case all
one or two letter commands (which are case insensitive).
* also affects the up-carret control commands, so they when inserted
they look more like real control commands.
* specifically does not affect case-insensitive Q-Register specifications
* the result are command lines that are better readable and conform
to the coding style used in SciTECO's standard library.
This eases reusing command lines as well.
* Consequently, string-building and pattern match characters should
be case-folded as well, but they aren't currently since
State::process_edit_cmd() does not have sufficient insight
into the MicroStateMachines. Also, it could not be delegated
to the MicroStateMachines.
Perhaps they should be abandoned in favour of embeddedable
regular state machines; or regular state machines with a stack
of return states?
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* fixes manpages, Groff warnings and building
womanpages for older Groff versions.
Groff v1.19 is in use eg. on FreeBSD 11.
* tbl v1.19 has different column specifiers than
on later versions. `X` cannot be used for expanded
columns in these Groff versions.
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* Using a common implementation in RBTreeString::auto_complete().
This is very efficient even for very huge tables since only
an O(log(n)) lookup is required and then all entries with a matching
prefix are iterated. Worst-case complexity is still O(n), since all
entries may be legitimate completions.
If necessary, the number of matching entries could be restricted, though.
* Auto completes short and long Q-Reg names.
Short names are "case-insensitive" (since they are upper-cased).
Long specs are terminated with a closing bracket.
* Long spec completions may have problems with names containing
funny characters since they may be misinterpreted as string building
characters or contain braces. All the auto-completions suffered from
this problem already (see TODO).
* This greatly simplifies investigating the Q-Register name spaces
interactively and e.g. calling macros with long names, inserting
environment registers etc.
* Goto labels are terminated with commas since they may be part
of a computed goto.
* Help topics are matched case insensitive (just like the topic
lookup itself) and are terminated with the escape character.
This greatly simplifies navigating womanpages and looking up
topics with long names.
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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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* uses the same cases as all the other subsections now
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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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* allows expansion of Q-Register contents with UNIX shell quoting
* This especially improves the usefulness of the EC/EG commands as
we can reliably determine that a TECO string (ie. Q-Register)
will end up as a single argument to the spawned process.
A previous workaround was to enclose ^EQ in quotes, but it does
not work e.g. if the register contains the wrong kind of quotes or
other magic shell characters.
* NOTE: In order to be absolutely sure about the runtime behaviour of
EC plus ^E@, you will have to enable UNIX98 shell emulation in portable
macros.
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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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* implemented by exporting the most important Scintilla STYLEs
as CSS variables and defining named widgets for the main UI
components.
* ~/.teco_css will then apply the Scintilla styles to the
Gtk UI.
This file is also for additional tweaks, e.g. enabling
translucency.
* A fallback.css is provided which does just that and is able
to apply the terminal.tes and solarized.tes color schemes.
* Other important aspects of theming like font sizes and names
have not yet been dealt with.
(We may want to apply the corresponding Scintilla settings
to some widgets...)
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* this practically fixes the delay issues when using
the escape key since 25ms is too short for humans to notice.
Still it should be large enough for all practical terminal
emulators and transmission speeds to get escape sequences
transmitted.
* If the escape delay turns out to be too short, it can still
be overwritten using the (standard ncurses) $ESCDELAY environment
variable.
* fnkeys.tes will still provide the escape surrogate since the
insert key will often be in a better possition on computer
keyboards.
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* SciTECO now has the same operator precedence table as C.
* It is numerically important whether different operators
have the same precedence. E.g. "5*2/4" used to be evaluated
by SciTECO as "5*(2/4)" since division had a higher precedence
than multiplication. Within in real (!) numbers this would
be the expected evaluation order.
Users of other programming languages however would expect
the expression to be evaluated as "(5*2)/4" which makes
a numerical difference when working with integers.
* Operator precedence has been implemented by encoding it
into the enumeration values used to represent different
operators.
Calculating the precedence of a given operator can then
be done very efficiently and elegantly (in our case using
a plain right shift operation).
* documentation updated. We use a precedence table now.
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* necessary since in SciTECO every operator has a different
precedence. E.g. successive additions/subtractions cannot
be evaluated from left to right (by their associativity).
Perhaps this should be changed.
* subtraction must have a higher precedence than addition,
since (a+b)-c == a+(b-c)
* division must have a higher precedence than multiplication
since (a*b)/c == a*(b/c).
This is not quite true for integer arithmetics.
* this fixes expressions like 5-1+1 which were counterintuitively
evaluated like 5-(1+1)
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* InterfaceCurses::Popup has been turned into a proper class.
This made sense since it is more complicated now and allows
us to isolate popup-related code.
This will also ease moving the popup code as a widget into
its own file later (it seems we will need subdirs per interface
anyway).
* the popup is now implemented using curses pads of which pages
are copied into the popup window (to implement cycling through
the list of entries). This simplifies things conceptually.
* instead of a trailing ellipsis, scrollbars are shown if the popup
area is too small to show all entries.
This looks much better and consistent with regard to Scinterm's
scrollbars. Also, the planned GTK+ popup widget rewrite will have
scroll bars, too for cycling through the list of entries.
Therefore, the popup window will now always be the same size
when cycling. This also looks better.
* Borders are drawn around the popup area.
This makes sense since the popup area had to be colored distinctly
just to be able to discern it from the rest of the UI (esp. the
Scintilla view). Now, less annoying colors may be used by default
or set up in color profiles while still maintaining good visibility.
Also, with the borders added, the popup area looks more consistent
when it covers the entire screen.
* Entries that are too long to fit on the screen (e.g. long file names)
are now truncated with a bold/underline ellipsis.
* Use scintilla_noutrefresh() to refresh the Scintilla view.
Since popups have to be refreshed __after__ the Scintilla view,
this improves performance significantly and reduces flickering
when displaying large popups.
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* it's used opaquely by SciTECO so it should be listed in the
overview of "special" Q-Registers.
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on Scintilla styles
* The first 16 colors of the terminal palette can be redefined
using the 3EJ property - with all restrictions that ncurses
and UNIX terminals impose on us.
It is still important to be able to redefine the palette for
some color schemes like Solarized since it may be difficult
for users to set up the terminal emulator's palette manually.
Also when using PDCurses, setting the palette is port-specific
or only possible using init_color(). In order to allow color
redefinitions across all curses ports it makes sense if SciTECO
gives access to the color initialization of curses even if it can
guarantee very little about its semantics in general.
* 3EJ is completely ignored for GTK+
* use the STYLE_DEFAULT of the current document to style the message line.
Fg and bg colors are reversed to guarantee a good contrast to the
Scintilla view.
Errors are still hardcoded to a red background, warnings to yellow
and info messages to green.
This allows color-scheming more of SciTECO given that the
red, yellow and green terminal colors are not changed fundamentally
in the terminal's palette.
* info line is now also styled using STYLE_DEFAULT (reverse colors).
The Q-Register and buffer names are now written out using format_str()
which means that control characters are written out in REVERSE just
like in the command line.
String::canonicalize_ctl() is still used to canonicalize window
titles.
* Command line is now modelled as a curses Pad and "blitted" to the
command line window. This allowed simplification of the command line
drawing code and introduction of format_str().
The command line is now styled according to STYLE_DEFAULT (original
fg and bg colors).
The rubbed-out part of the command line can now longer be shown in
bold black - or even bold light black - since that is not visible in
all color themes. Instead it is now only shown in bold.
Command line theming problems will be gone once we use a Scintilla
view for the command line.
* The popup widget is now styled according to STYLE_CALLTIP.
* This means that all relevant parts of SciTECO's user interface
can now be themed. This allows the creation of themes that redefine
the terminal palette radically (e.g. Solarized) and the creation of
"bright" themes (e.g. Solarized/bright).
* theming of the non-scintilla-view parts of SciTECO is currently
unsupported on GTK+. The reason is that both the popup widget
and command line widgets have to be rewritten completely in GTK+
and are work in progress, so adapting the current code would be
a waste of time.
* Added a manual section about the UI and theming.
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* ^FCLOSE is inserted when the "Close" key is pressed.
It is used by the GTK+ UI to deliver window close requests
and SIGTERM occurrences.
(this replaces the "Break" key used before in the GTK+ UI).
* The default action of ^FCLOSE is to quit SciTECO, therefore
window closing is possible even in --no-profile mode for instance.
* fixed a minor memleak in Cmdline::fnmacro()
* added ^FCLOSE implementation to fnkeys.tes to insert EX.
This currently has the disadvantage of overwriting
the error message with syntax errors if there are modified buffers
but it will at least not close the window if there are modified
buffers.
* SIGTERM will now be similar to SIGINT by default instead of
terminating SciTECO right away.
* the GTK+ UI handles SIGTERM by emulating the "close" key while
still interrupting like SIGINT.
* GTK+: SIGTERM and ^C will interrupt by sending SIGINT to the
entire process group instead of simply setting `sigint_occurred`.
This fixes interrupting EC and EG commands with long-running
or hanging programs and is relevant to the solution of #4.
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* relies on a patched version of Scinterm that allows you to
construct Scintilla objects, send messages etc. before Curses
is initialized.
The Scintilla and Scinterm submodules have been updated.
* This once and for all fixes batch mode and stdio redirections
in batch mode on all Curses platforms and operating systems.
* Fixes the ^C-does-not-interrupt bug on ncurses/UNIX.
See #4.
* On ncurses/UNIX we will still do a newterm()-initialization.
This allows us to keep stdout/stderr alone in case they are
redirected. This effectively allows redirecting SciTECO's
output into a file even in interactive mode.
ncurses/UNIX now behaves like, e.g. PDCurses/win32a and GTK+
in this regard.
* Curses environment variable handling fixed.
The environment registers are exported into the process environment
so that Curses environment variables can be set/modified by the
SciTECO profile.
* Use term.h for accessing terminfo now.
Explained set_window_title() limitations.
* fixed interruption via SIGINT. If the UI is waiting for user
input, SIGINT is effectively ignored instead of letting the
next character fail always.
* Updated sciteco(1) and sciteco(7): More options, environment variables
and signals documented. Also rewritten DESCRIPTION section
(different modes of operation).
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* the registers beginning with "$" are exported into sub-process
environments. Therefore macros can now modify the environment
(variables) of commands executed via EC/EG.
A variable can be modified temporarily, e.g.:
[[$FOO] ^U[$FOO]bar$ EC...$ ][$FOO]
* SciTECO accesses the global environment registers instead of
using g_getenv(). Therefore now, tilde-expansion will always
use the current value of the "$HOME" register.
Previously, both register and environment variable could diverge.
* This effectively fully maps the process environment to a subset of
Q-Registers beginning with "$".
* This hasn't been implemented by mapping those registers to
special implementations that updates the process environment
directly, since g_setenv() is non-thread-safe on UNIX
and we're expected to have threads soon - at least in the GTK+ UI.
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* expands to the value of $HOME (the env variable instead of
the register which currently makes a slight difference).
* supported for tab-completions
* supported for all file-name accepting commands.
The expansion is done centrally in StateExpectFile::done().
A new virtual method StateExpectFile::got_file() has been
introduced to pass the expanded/processed file name to
command implementations.
* sciteco(7) has been updated: There is now a separate section
on file name arguments and file name handling in SciTECO.
This information is important but has been scattered across
the document previously.
* optimized is_glob_pattern() in glob.h
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appending to "$"
* these operations are unsupported and there is no benefit
in ignoring them silently. It only confused the user.
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working directory
* FG stands for "Folder Go"
* FG behaves similar to a Unix shell `cd`.
Without arguments, it changes to the $HOME directory.
* The $HOME directory was previously only used by $SCITECOCONFIG on Unix.
Now it is documented on its own, since the HOME directory should also
be configurable on Windows - e.g. to adapt SciTECO to a MinGW or Cygwin
installation.
HOME is initialized just like the other environment variables.
This also means that now, the $HOME Q-Register is always defined
and can be used by platform-agnostic macros.
* FG uses a new kind of tab-completion: for directories only.
It would be annoying to complete the FG command after every
directory, so this tab-completion does not close the command
automatically. Theoretically, it would be possible to close
the command after completing a directory with no subdirectories,
but this is not supported currently.
* Filename arguments are no longer completed with " " if {} escaping
is in place as this brings no benefit. Instead no completion character
is inserted for this escape mode.
* "$" was mapped to the current directory to support an elegant way to
insert/get the current directory.
Also this allows the idiom "[$ FG...new_dir...$ ]$" for changing
the current directory temporarily.
* The Q-Register stack was extended to support restoring the string
part of special Q-Registers (that overwrite the default functionality)
when using the "[$" and "]$" commands.
* fixed minor typos (american spelling)
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out beyond empty arguments
* it was annoying not to be able to rub out anything with ^W if the current string
argument was empty.
* Now, the special file name and string argument handling for ^W is effective
only if the current argument is non-empty, else we fall back to the rub-out-command
behaviour.
* So now, if you press ^W in a string argument, it is rubbed out until empty and
on the next ^W press, the entire command will be rubbed out.
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* the rubout/reinsert-word behaviour of misc. string arguments
is suboptimal for file name arguments as it depends on Scintilla's
word characters.
By default, the directory separators are not considered word
characters, but this could be changed by the user.
* The behaviour of ^W in file name arguments is now fixed and
independant from the Scintilla configuration:
It always rubs out or re-inserts one hierarchy level of the
file name.
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* EN may now be used for matching file names (similar to fnmatch(3)).
This is used to check the current buffers file extension in the
lexer configuration macros instead of using expensive Q-Register
manipulations.
This halves the overall startup time - it is now acceptable even
with the current amount of lexer configurations.
* EN may now be used for checking file types.
session.tes has been simplified.
* BREAKS macro portability (EN now has 2 string arguments).
* The Globber class has been extended to allow filtering of
glob results by file type.
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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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* It is still useful to have this in macros since you may want to
work with non-normalized file names.
For instance, env variables (including $SCITECOPATH and $SCITECOCONFIG)
may (and will probably) include backward-slash separators on Windows
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* on Windows, this register contained backward slashes. This means
that macros working with that register had to cope with both
forward and backward slashes.
* The file names are still displayed in the native style by the UI
* This approach also has disadvantages: What if the user wants
to insert the current file name somewhere where "\" is expected?
However, this seems to be an unlikely case and the use can still
replace the "/" with "\" again.
* Avoid some virtual method calls in QRegisterBufferInfo
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this looks better in Unicode terminals
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* for historic reasons, the backspace key can be transmitted as
^H by the terminal. Some terminal emulators might do that - these
are fixed by this commit.
* Use CTL_KEY('H') instead of standard C '\b' as the former is less
ambiguous given the confusion around the backspace character.
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removal of ^T
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* the ^I command was altered to insert indention characters
rather than plain tabs always.
* The <TAB> immediate editing command was added for all
insertion arguments (I, ^I but also FR and FS)
* documentation was extended for a discussion of indention
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Windows
* this is actually UNTESTED on Windows
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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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* added platform-dependant file_is_visible() function
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