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2016-11-22avoid the non-standard \e escape sequenceRobin Haberkorn1-3/+3
* shouldn't really be an issue but since we already have CTL_KEY_ESC_STR as a character literal, we may as well use it.
2016-11-21fixed compilation of the PDCurses frontendRobin Haberkorn1-1/+1
* a simple cast was missing due to C++ aliasing rules
2016-11-20fixed glib warnings about using g_mem_set_vtable() and revised memory limitingRobin Haberkorn1-1/+3
* we were basing the glib allocators on throwing std::bad_alloc just like the C++ operators. However, this always was unsafe since we were throwing exceptions across plain-C frames (Glib). Also, the memory vtable has been deprecated in Glib, resulting in ugly warnings. * Instead, we now let the C++ new/delete operators work like Glib by basing them on g_malloc/g_slice. This means they will assert and the application will terminate abnormally in case of OOM. OOMs cannot be handled properly anyway, so it is more important to have a good memory limiting mechanism. * Memory limiting has been completely revised. Instead of approximating undo stack sizes using virtual methods (which is unprecise and comes with a performance penalty), we now use a common base class SciTECO::Object to count the memory required by all objects allocated within SciTECO. This is less precise than using global replacement new/deletes which would allow us to control allocations in all C++ code including Scintilla, but they are only supported as of C++14 (GCC 5) and adding compile-time checks would be cumbersome. In any case, we're missing Glib allocations (esp. strings). * As a platform-specific extension, on Linux/glibc we use mallinfo() to count the exact memory usage of the process. On Windows, we use GetProcessMemoryInfo() -- the latter implementation is currently UNTESTED. * We use g_malloc() for new/delete operators when there is malloc_trim() since g_slice does not free heap chunks properly (probably does its own mmap()ing), rendering malloc_trim() ineffective. We've also benchmarked g_slice on Linux/glib (malloc_trim() shouldn't be available elsewhere) and found that it brings no significant performance benefit. On all other platforms, we use g_slice since it is assumed that it at least does not hurt. The new g_slice based allocators should be tested on MSVCRT since I assume that they bring a significant performance benefit on Windows. * Memory limiting does now work in batch mode as well and is still enabled by default. * The old UndoTokenWithSize CRTP hack could be removed. UndoStack operations should be a bit faster now. But on the other hand, there will be an overhead due to repeated memory limit checking on every processed character.
2016-11-18improved command line option handlingRobin Haberkorn2-5/+9
* it turns out that option-like arguments could not be reliably passed to SciTECO scripts for two reasons: a) "--" arguments are not removed from argv by GOption if it detects and following option-like argument. "--" would thus be passed as a script argument which will disable option parsing in scripts that interpret "--". b) A script run via the Hash-Bang line "#!...sciteco -m" would require an explicit "--" to turn of GOption parsing. However it is __impossible__ to insert after the script file name on UNIX. * Therefore, SciTECO now removes leading "--" arguments left over by GOption. * If possible (Glib >= 2.44), option parsing is performed in strict POSIX mode which inhibits parsing after the first non-option argument. This reduces the number of cases where an explicit "--" is required. * --mung no longer takes an argument. Instead, the first non-option argument is expected to be the script file name. This looks weird at first but is more consistent with how other interpeters work. Once we revise argument passing to scripts, the script name can also be passed to the script which is more consistent with it being the first non-option argument. Also, with strict POSIX parsing, this fixed Hash-Bang lines since the script file name constructed by the kernel will automatically switch off option parsing, passing all option-like script arguments uninterpreted to the script. * Since we're supporting Glib < 2.44, the Hash-Bang lines are still broken for certain builds. Therefore, a wrapper script is installed to libexecdir (it never has to be executed by users and Hash-Bang lines need absolute paths anyway) which transparently inserts "--" into the SciTECO command line and should be used as the interpreter in portable SciTECO scripts. The wrapper script is generated and points to the exact SciTECO binary installed. This is important when doing parallel installs of Curses and Gtk binaries since each one will get its own working wrapper script. The wrapper-script workaround can be removed once we depend on Glib >= 2.44 (some day...). * The default /usr/bin/env Hash-Bang lines are no longer used in the scripts since they are broken anyway (UNIX incl. Linux cannot pass multiple arguments to the interpreter!). Scripts that get installed will get a fixed-up Hash-Bang line referring to the installed SciTECO binary anyway. * Interface::main() has been renamed to Interface::init() and is optional now. The Interface::main() method was introduced because of the misconception that interfaces will find their options in the argv array and have to do their own parsing. This is wrong, since their option group already cares about parsing. Therefore, gtk_init() does not have to called explicitly, too.
2016-08-19Integrated clipboard supportRobin Haberkorn2-12/+360
* 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.
2016-02-10avoid unnecessary undo token allocations in batch mode: greatly speeds up ↵Robin Haberkorn1-1/+1
batch mode * by using variadic templates, UndoStack::push() is now responsible for allocating undo tokens. This is avoided in batch mode. * The old UndoStack::push(UndoToken *) method has been made private to avoid confusion around UndoStack's API. The old UndoStack::push() no longer needs to handle !undo.enabled, but at least asserts on it. * C++11 support is now required, so variadic templates can be used. This could have also been done using manual undo.enabled checks; or using multiple versions of the template with different numbers of template arguments. The latter could be done if we one day have to support a non-C++11 compiler. However since we're depending on GCC 4.4, variadic template use should be OK. Clang supports it since v2.9. * Sometimes, undo token pushing passed ownership of some memory to the undo token. The old behaviour was relied on to reclaim the memory even in batch mode -- the undo token was always deleted. To avoid leaks or repeated manual undo.enabled checking, another method UndoStack::push_own() had to be introduced that makes sure that an undo token is always created. In batch mode (!undo.enabled), this will however create the object on the stack which is much cheaper than using `new`. * Having to know which kind of undo token is to be pushed (taking ownership or not) is inconvenient. It may be better to add static methods to the UndoToken classes that can take care of reclaiming memory. * Benchmarking certain SciTECO scripts have shown 50% (!!!) speed increases at the highest possible optimization level (-O3 -mtune=native -march=native).
2016-01-31CursesInfoPopup: separated the Curses popup widget from the rest of the UI codeRobin Haberkorn7-356/+514
* this has been prepared a long time ago * the popup widget does not in any way depend on the InterfaceCurses class and could be used elsewhere. * common and generic Curses drawing functions required by both the Curses UI and the CursesInfoPopup widget have been factored out into curses-utils.cpp (namespace Curses) * this improved the UI-logic separation and helped in making interface-curses.cpp smaller
2016-01-31interfaces have their own automake subdirectories and convenience libraries nowRobin Haberkorn3-0/+1789
* use libtool convenience libraries as much as possible (for all static libraries except Scintilla) * improves separation of language and user interface implementations (e.g. the Gtk widgets are not interesting for the rest of SciTECO) * the Curses popup widget can now be factored out of interface-curses.cpp * some common CPPFLAGS are now defined by ./configure via AM_CPPFLAGS, so they don't have to be repeated in each submodule. * fixed building the Curses UI: GTK_FLOW_BOX_FALLBACK conditional must always be defined.