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|  | * Since Scintilla no longer automatically scrolls the caret (see 941f48da6dde691a7800290cc729aaaacd051392),
  the caret wouldn't always end up in the view on startup.
* Added teco_interface_refresh() which includes SCI_SCROLLCARET and
  is invoked on startup. This helps with the Curses backend.
  It also reduces code redundancies.
* On Gtk, the caret cannot be easily scrolled on startup as long as no size is allocated
  to the window, so we also added a size-allocate callback to the
  window's event box. Sizes are less often allocated to the event box than to the
  window itself for some strange reason. | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | PDCurses/WinGUI
* we can neither display, nor parse Unicode characters properly, so this does not worsen anything
* makes it harder to confuse the parser as long as we do not support Unicode.
* behaves like on Gtk: pressing a non-ASCII char will simply be ignored
* Most importantly, this fixes crashes on PDCurses/WinGUI.
  It apparently couldn't handle the negative integers that resulted from passing a value >= 0x80 <= 0xFF
  into gchar (which is a signed integer).
  Changing everything into guchar is not worth the effort - we need full Unicode support anyway. | 
|  | Scintilla now
* The patch avoids all automatic scrolling consistently, including in SCI_UNDO.
  This speads up Undo (especially after interruptions).
* Also, the patch disables a very costly and pointless (in SciTECO) algorithm that
  effectively made <Ix$> uninterruptible.
* Effectively reverts large parts of 8ef010da59743fcc4927c790f585ba414ec7b129.
  I have never liked using unintuitive Scintilla messages to avoid scrolling. | 
|  | * actually everything is updated to their current HEADs but the aforementioned versions are close.
* Scintilla uses threads now, so we added checks for pthread.
  To be on the safe side, we imported AX_PTHREAD from the Autoconf archives.
  The flags are kept out of the ordinary build system, though and used only for compiling Scintilla
  and for linking.
  SciTECO may also use threads, but via Glib.
* Scinterm removed SCI_COLOR_PAIR(), so we re-added it to src/interface-curses/interface.c.
* There is an Asciidoc lexer now.
* The <Ix$> 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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|  | * 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. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | * This is already fixed upstream, but we still include the workaround, so we can
  build with the current MSYS package and during CI. | 
|  | * Due to regressions, the Control handler needs to be installed later
  (PDCursesMod installs its own control handler).
* We no longer have to manually set the control mode - at least on PDCursesMod/WinCON.
  It's not worth keeping the workaround for the original PDCurses.
* For WinGUI neither the control handler, nor the polling-fallback will work,
  therefore we introduced yet another version based on keyboard hooks.
  See https://github.com/Bill-Gray/PDCursesMod/issues/197
  This version may even become the default on all Win32-ports but I
  need to think this through more thorougly. | 
|  | * Using ungetch() was of course broken and could easily result in hangs as wgetch()
  would never return ERR.
* This wastes some bytes on platforms that do not need the
  teco_interface_is_interrupted() fallback.
* introduced teco_interface_blocking_getch()
* FIXME: This is still way too slow on PDCurses/GUI on Windows but
  this can potentially be fixed upstream. | 
|  | to detect interactive/batch mode
* Adds support for CTRL+C interruptions on Curses variants like PDCurses/GUI and XCurses.
  This also affects the current Win32 nightly builds which should now support CTRL+C interruptions.
* The fallback is of course less efficient than the existing platform optimizations (existing for
  UNIX and Win32 console builds) and slows down parsing in interactive mode.
* Use teco_interface.cmdline_window consistently to detect interactive mode.
  This may theoretically speed up SciTECO code execution slightly on shutdown. | 
|  | * The C standard actually forbids this (undefined behaviour) even though
  it seems intuitive that something like `memcpy(foo, NULL, 0)` does no harm.
* It turned out, there were actual real bugs related to this.
  If memchr() was called with a variable that can be NULL,
  the compiler could assume that the variable is actually always non-NULL
  (since glibc declares memchr() with nonnull), consequently eliminating
  checks for NULL afterwards.
  The same could theoretically happen with memcpy().
  This manifested itself in the empty search crashing when building with -O3.
  Test case:
  sciteco -e '@S//'
* Consequently, the nightly builds (at least for Ubuntu) also had this bug.
* In some cases, the passed in pointers are passed down from the caller but
  should not be NULL, so I added runtime assertions to guard against it. | 
|  | * NOTE: Selections are currently only used to highlight search results.
* The default selection colors were not always visible well with default settings (--no-profile)
  and they were not uniform across platforms.
  On Curses, the selection would be reversed, while on Gtk it had a lighter foreground color.
  They are now always reversed (black on white background).
  The default styles do not assume any color support - they use only black and white.
* Since these defaults cannot possibly work on every color scheme,
  color.selfore and color.selback has been added to color.tes.
  All existing color schemes have been updated to configure selections as reversed
  to the default colors.
  This especially fixes selection colors on Gtk.
* On solarized.tes, the caret style was already distinct from inversed default colors.
  On terminal.tes, the color of the caret is now bright white, so it stands out
  from the selection colors.
* In Curses, the caret color is currently __not__ applied to the command line where
  it is continued to be drawn reversed.
  The command line drawing code is considered deprecated and will eventually be replaced
  with a Scintilla minibuffer.
* In Gtk, we now apply the caret style to the commandline view as well.
* Fixed the comment color in solarized.light. | 
|  | once per keypress
* Esp. costly since Scintilla 5.
* We now avoid any Scintilla message that automatically scrolls the caret (makes the
  caret visible) and instead call SCI_SCROLLCARET only once after every keypress in the
  interface implementation.
* From nowon, use
  * SCI_SETEMPTYSELECTION instead of SCI_GOTOPOS
  * SCI_SETEMPTYSELECTION(SCI_POSITIONFROMLINE(...)) instead of SCI_GOTOLINE
  * SCI_SETSELECTIONSTART and SCI_SETSELECTIONEND instead of SCI_SETSEL
* With these optimizations we are significantly faster than before
  the Scintilla upgrade (6e67f5a682ff46d69888fec61b94bf45cec46721).
  It is now even safe to execute the Gtk test suite during CI. | 
|  | * Esp. with the new Scintilla version, the representation
  setting as part of every SCI_SETDOCPOINTER has turned out to
  be a performance bottleneck.
* The new Scintilla has a custom tweak/patch that disables any
  automatic representation setting in Scintilla itself.
  It is now sufficient to initialize the SciTECO-style representations
  only once in the lifetime of any view. | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | 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.) | 
|  | * Environment variables are case insensitive on Windows
  while SciTECO variables are case sensitive.
  We must therefore make sure that we first unset any $COMSPEC or $ComSpec
  from the environment before resetting it, thereby fixing its case.
* Fixes command execution via <EC> on systems where the variable
  was not called $ComSpec. | 
|  | This is a total conversion of SciTECO to plain C (GNU C11).
The chance was taken to improve a lot of internal datastructures,
fix fundamental bugs and lay the foundations of future features.
The GTK user interface is now in an useable state!
All changes have been squashed together.
The language itself has almost not changed at all, except for:
* Detection of string terminators (usually Escape) now takes
  the string building characters into account.
  A string is only terminated outside of string building characters.
  In other words, you can now for instance write
  I^EQ[Hello$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. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | Automakefiles could be simplified by updating CXXFLAGS
in configure.ac instead. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | * a simple cast was missing due to C++ aliasing rules | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | * 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. | 
|  | 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). | 
|  | * 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 | 
|  | * 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. |