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commands with multiple string arguments
* When `@`-modifying a command with several string arguments and choosing `{` as the alternative
string termination character, the parser would get totally confused.
Any sequence of `{` would be ignored and only the first non-`{` would become the termination character.
Consequently you also couldn't choose a new terminator after the closing `}`.
So even a documented code example from sciteco(7) wouldn't work.
The same was true when using $ (escape) or ^A as the alternative termination character.
* We can now correctly parse e.g. `@FR{foo}{bar}` or `@FR$foo$bar$` (even though the
latter one is quite pointless).
* has probably been broken forever (has been broken even before v2.0).
* Whitespace is now ignored in front of alternative termination characters as in TECO-64, so
we can also write `@S /foo/` or even
```
@^Um
{
!* blabla *!
}
```
I wanted to disallow whitespace termination characters, so the alternative would have been
to throw an error.
The new implementation at least adds some functionality.
* Avoid redundancies when parsing no-op characters via teco_is_noop().
I assume that this is inlined and drawn into any jump-table what would be
generated for the switch-statement in teco_state_start_input().
* Alternative termination characters are still case-folded, even if they are Unicode glyphs,
so `@IЖfooж` would work and insert `foo`.
This should perhaps be restricted to ANSI characters?
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current buffer
* refactored some code that is common with Xq into teco_get_range_args().
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There will be a lot more commands for terminal/message
input and output soon.
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* Previously, deleting text after a text match or insertion
could result in wrong ^S/^Y results.
In particular, the amount of characters deleted by <FD> at the end of a buffer
couldn't be queried.
* This also fixes the M#rf (reflow paragraph) macro.
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command now
* Improves DEC TECO-11 compatibility.
* <EM> is still supported as a synonym, but considered deprecated and is no longer documented.
A warning is printed when invoked.
It can be repurposed at any time in the future.
* `EI$` is not yet supported.
I am unsure whether this makes any sense.
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* This may break existing macros!
^C is now essentially a synonym for $$ and may not terminate the program
when called from a non-toplevel macro frame.
However it improves compatibility with TECO-11.
* In contrast to TECO-11, ^C^C (exit) can be typed completely in upcaret mode.
Otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to use the exit command in ASCII-only scripts.
* The implementation of ^C^C uses a lookahead state similar to ^[ (escape).
^C does not return immediately, but the following character determines whether it will
perform a return or exit.
It's one of the rare cases in SciTECO where this is possible and safe since
^C is also disallowed on the command-line to avoid undesired command-line terminations
after ^C interruptions.
(You can only use $$ to terminate the command-line interactively.)
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out no-op commands (whitespace)
* In string arguments, ^W first rubs out non-word chars (usually whitespace),
so it makes sense if ^W would work analogously at the command level.
A non-command would be one of the no-ops.
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lengths (refs #27)
* Allows storing pattern matches into Q-Registers (^YXq).
* You can also refer to subpatterns marked by ^E[...] by passing a number > 0.
This is equivalent to \0-9 references in many programming languages.
* It's especially useful for supporting TECO's equivalent of structural regular expressions.
This will be done with additional macros.
* You can also simply back up to the beginning of an insertion or search.
So I...$^SC leaves dot at the beginning of the insertion.
S...$^SC leaves dot before the found pattern.
This has been previously requested by users.
* Perhaps there should be ^Y string building characters as well to backreference
in search-replacement commands (TODO).
This means that the search commands would have to store the matched text itself
in teco_range_t structures since FR deletes the matched text before
processing the replacement string.
It could also be made into a FR/FS-specific construct,
so we don't fetch the substrings unnecessarily.
* This differs from DEC TECO in always returning the same range even after dot movements,
since we are storing start/end byte positions instead of only the length.
Also DEC TECO does not support fetching subpattern ranges.
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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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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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