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* Improves DEC TECO-11 compatibility.
* <EM> is still supported as a synonym, but considered deprecated and is no longer documented.
A warning is printed when invoked.
It can be repurposed at any time in the future.
* `EI$` is not yet supported.
I am unsure whether this makes any sense.
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* This is rendered with ms, so we now need the entire groff on Debian.
This is not a big deal as it just adds a few kilobytes of build-time dependencies.
Most platforms do not allow installation of some "groff-base" package anyway
and always draw in the entire package.
* sciteco.tmac has been extended to disable page breaks on ms.
* The tutorial is installed like any other woman page and can be invoked
interactively with ?tutorial$.
* It is optimized to be still usable on a plain 80x24 terminal.
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* This goes into session.vcs as well.
* `fossil info` does not allow printing only the local-root property, so we have to do
some parsing afterwards.
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* In fact, since SVN has --no-newline, this is even simpler than on Git and Mercurial.
* This requires at least Subversion v1.9 (2015, so should be safe).
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* The previous convention of !* ... *! are now true block comments,
i.e. they are parsed faster, don't spam the goto table and allow
embedding of exclamation marks - only "*!" terminates the comment.
* It is therefore now forbidden to have goto labels beginning with "*".
* Also support "!!" to introduce EOL comments (like C++'s //).
This disallows empty labels, but they weren't useful anyway.
This is the shortest way to begin a comment.
* All comment labels have been converted to true comments, to ensure
that syntax highlighting works correctly.
EOL comments are used for single line commented-out code, since it's
easiest to uncomment - you don't have to jump to the line end.
This is a pure convention / coding style.
Other people might do it differently.
* It's of course still possible to abuse goto labels as comments
as TECO did for ages.
* In lexing / syntax highlighting, labels and comments are highlighted differently.
* When syntax highlighting, a single "!" will first be highlighted as a label
since it's not yet unambiguous. Once you type the second character (* or !),
the first character is retroactively styled as a comment as well.
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filenames containing ASCII 27
* You can now set a per-file tab style, that differs from the defaults established
in the ED hook.
This is important especially since we do not yet support per-project .teco_ini
scripts where you could establish differing policies depending on the VCS repository.
(The latter would be easy to implement, but we cannot currently easily extend the
existing ED hooks.)
* It's unlikely that files contain an ASCII 27, but not impossible.
Therefore we now use ASCII 0 (^@) as a terminator.
This indeed be safe under UNIX.
Even better would be a string building construct for escaping ASCII 27 ($), though,
as that would work with arbitrary bytes.
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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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* turned out to be a very handy feature
* can be turned off by setting register `session.savedir` to false
* also fixed the line endings in .teco_session files to line-feed (ie. native)
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* <$$> is faster than jumping to the end of the macro
and enables shorter code for returning values from macros.
* this also replaces $$ as an immediate editing command.
In other words, command line termination is an ordinary command
now. The old behaviour was similar to what classic TECO did.
Classic TECO however had no choice than to track key presses
directly for command line termination as it did not keep track
about the parser state as input was typed.
This led to some glitches in the language. For instance
"FS$$" would terminate the command line, unless the second escape
was typed after backspace, etc. This behaviour is not worth copying
and SciTECO did a better job than that by making sure that at least the
second escape is only effective if it is not part of language syntax.
This still lead to some undesirable cases like "ES...$$$" that would
terminate the command line unexpectedly.
To terminate the command line after something like "FS$$", you will
now have to type "FS$$$$".
* As it is a regular command now - just executed immediately - and
its properties stay close to the macro return behaviour, command line
termination may now not always be performed when $$ is typed even
as a standalone command. E.g. "Ofoo$ !bar!$$ !foo!Obar$" will
curiously terminate the command line now.
* This also means that macros can finally terminate command lines
by using the command line editing commands ({ and }) to insert
$$ into the command line macro.
This is also of interest for function key macros.
* This implementation showed some serious shortcoming in SciTECO's
current parser that yet have to be fixed.
E.g. the macro "@^Ua{<$$>}" is currently unsafe since
loops abuse the expression stack for storing their state and $$
does not touch the expression stack. Calling "Ma>" would actually
continue the loop jumping to the beginning of the command line
since program counters referring to the macro A will be reused!
This cannot be easily solved by checking for loop termination
since being able to return that way from loops is a useful
feature. This is a problem even without loops and $$, e.g. as
in "@^Ua{1,2,3(4,5} Ma)".
Instead, a kind of expression stack frame pointer must be
added to macro invocation stack frames, pointing to the beginning
of the expression stack for the current frame.
At the end of macros or on return, the stack contents of
corresponding to the frame can be discarded while preserving the
immediate arguments at the time of the return or end-of-macro.
This would stabilize SciTECO's macro semantics.
* When a top-level macro returns in batch mode, it would
be a good idea to use the last argument to calculate the
process return code, so it can be set by SciTECO scripts (TODO).
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* added a new OPTIONAL behaviour for QRegSpecMachines
* allows you to implement commands that have an optional Q-Register
argument that should not be initialized if undefined.
* Using QRegSpecMachine::fail() you may still check for existence of
the register conditionally to emulate the QREG_REQUIRED behaviour.
* Using :Q for checking for register existence makes sense, because
usually you will want to check for both existence and non-emptyness
as in :Qq">. So in this common case, you no longer have to
keep in mind that the register may also be undefined.
* This finally allows us to create arrays in the Q-Register
tables without keeping a separate entry for the number of elements.
E.g. an array.0 to array.N can be iterated like this:
0Ui <:Q[array.^E\i]:; ! work with element i ! %i>
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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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* session.hg sets up the buffer session in the current
Mercurial repository
* session.vcs is a convenience macro that may be used in
profiles to enable buffer sessions per repo for all supported
VCS (Git, Hg and SVN)
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Subversion working copy
* it uses "svn info --xml" since otherwise the output of "svn info" might
be localized.
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automatically when files are given.
this allows you to use sciteco in a Git repository to edit a specific file,
without changing the buffer session. Also useful if SciTECO is used as the GIT_EDITOR
without thrashing the repository's session every time a commit message is edited.
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$SCITECOPATH on Windows
* $SCITECOCONFIG has been introduced, so have a macro-accessible location
for the profile, buffer session etc.
This is set to the program dir on Windows. That way, the config files
will be found, regardless of the current working dir, but it may also
be set up for Unix-like environments on Windows.
* $SCITECOPATH defaults to the program dir + "/lib" now on Windows.
* The default profile is now always called ".teco_ini". Also on Windows.
Platform differences like this would need to be documented.
* The sample teco.ini has been renamed to "sample.teco_ini" for clarity
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* EW can save Q-Registers now
* the new E% may be used to save a q-register without making it
the current document
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this is more consistent with SciTECO's idea of abstract registers
and allows the currend buffer to be saved on the Q-Register stack.
This allows the idiom: [* ! ...change current buffer... ! ]*
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This is a simple and straight-forward implementation of
buffer sessions in SciTECO. A session is merely a SciTECO script
that opens files when executed (and restores properties).
The current session is identified by this script's filename in
Q-Register "session.path": ~/.teco_session by default.
Users may set "session.path" to manage different profiles.
An abstraction of session "names" is not provided. Users are expected
to hack these on their own.
For the common task of having one session per profile, the
"session.git" macro is provided. It set's up the current session
relative to the current Git repository.
This will create ".teco_session" files in the root of Git
repositories, that may be added to a global ignore pattern (or they
may even be versioned!)
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