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* on MSVCRT/MinGW, space allocated with alloca()/g_newa() was apparently
freed once the first exception was caught.
This prevented the proper destruction of local Q-Reg tables and
broke the Windows port.
* Since all alternatives to alloca() like VLAs are not practical,
the default Q-Register initialization has been moved out of the
QRegisterTable constructor into QRegisterTable::insert_defaults().
* The remaining QRegisterTable initialization and destruction is
very cheap, so we simply reserve an empty QRegisterTable for
local registers on every Execute::macro() call.
The default registers are only initialized when required, though.
* All of this has to change anyway once we replace the
C++ call-stack approach to macro calls with our own macro
call frame memory management.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* The default command interpreter will thus be inherited from
the operating system. In the case of UNIX from the user's
passwd entry.
E.g. if bash is used, bash extensions can be used immediately
if flag 128 is not set in the ED flags.
* On DOS-like systems there are also alternative interpreters
(e.g. 4NT, 4OS2) that are configurable now.
* At least on UNIX with $SHELL it is not guaranteed that
the interpreter supports the standard command line arguments
like "-c". If they don't, this will cause problems with EC.
Since $SHELL is mapped to a Q-Register, it can however
always be easily customized for SciTECO sessions in the
user's .teco_ini.
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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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* Haiku can be handled like UNIX in most respects
since it is POSIX compliant, has a UNIX-like terminal
emulator and uses ncurses.
* still the Glib platform macro is G_OS_HAIKU instead of
G_OS_UNIX, so the preprocessor conditionals had to be adapted.
* the only functional difference between a Haiku and UNIX build
is the default SCITECOCONFIG path.
We use the config path returned by Glib instead of $HOME,
so .teco_ini will be in ~/config/settings on Haiku.
Other UNIX ports appear to use the same conventions.
* Some Haiku-specific restrictions still apply:
* Haiku's terminal is xterm-compatible, but only supports
8 colors. Therefore only the terminal.tes color scheme
can be used and the terminal must be set up to
"Use bright instead of bold text".
* The terminal has artifacts. This appears to be a Haiku
bug and affects other curses applications as well.
* GTK is yet unsupported on Haiku, so there may never be
a GUI port (unless someone writes a QT GUI for SciTECO).
* SciTECO cannot be built with the legacy gcc2 used for
BeOS compatibility on Haiku. This would require too many
changes for an obsolete platform.
BeOS and the x86_gcc2 platform of Haiku will therefore
never be supported.
The PPC and ARM platforms of Haiku should work but are untested.
* a HaikuPorts recipe will be provided for the next regular
SciTECO release. This should hopefully allow installation via
HaikuDepot.
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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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* 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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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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* activated via bit 4 of the ED flag (enabled by default)
* automatic EOL guessing on file loading and translation to LFs.
* works with files that have inconsistent EOL sequences.
* automatic translation to original EOL sequences on file saving
* works with inconsistent EOL sequences in the buffer.
This should usually not happen if the file was read in with
automatic EOL translation enabled.
* also works with the EC and EG commands
* performance is OK, depending on the file being translated.
When reading files with UNIX EOLs, the overhead is minimal
typically-sized files. For DOS EOLs the overhead is larger
but still acceptable.
* Return (line feed) is now an immediate editing command.
This centralizes EOL sequence insertion.
Later, other features like auto-indent could be added to
the editing command.
* get_eol() has been moved to main.cpp (now called
get_eol_seq()
* Warn if file ownership could not be preserved when
saving files.
* IOView has been almost completely rewritten based
on GIOChannels. The EOL translation code is also in IOView.
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defined
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* this makes them absolute and also resolves links on Unix
* macros can now assume the corresponding Q-regs to be absolute
* Currently this does not make a big difference since the
working directory of the SciTECO process cannot be changed.
Once I implement a command to change the working dir, this
is essential.
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* The PACKAGE_URL_DEV is also mentioned in --help output and sciteco(1)
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CTL_KEY_ESC_STR
* the reason for the CTL_KEY() macro is to get the control character
resulting from a CTRL+Key press -- at least this is how SciTECO
presents these key presses.
It is also a macro and may be resolved to a constant expression,
so it can be used in switch-case statements.
Sometimes it is clearer to use standard C escape sequences (like '\t').
* CTL_KEY('[') for escape is hard to read, so I always used '\x1B' which
is even more cryptic.
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* They are harmful. I removed most of them a long time ago
but kept some for their documenting character.
However, they will always result in additional checks (runtime
penalty) when the corresponding functions get called and cannot ensure that
only the declared exceptions are thrown at compile time.
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string-utils.cpp and string-utils.h
* also improved performance of String::append() by using g_realloc()
* added String::append() variant for non-null-terminated strings
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* also did some whitespace cleanup in SciTECO now that tabs are
displayed properly
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* when throwing GlibError(), this is taken care of automatically.
* fixes a memleak since there may be resources associated with the
GError.
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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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* in batch mode, Scintilla undo actions are simply leaked memory
* Since we have more than one Scintilla view now, we must empty
the undo buffer of all scintilla views when a command line is committed ($$)
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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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the QUIT hook is actually not that trivial and required
some architectural changes.
First, the QUIT hook execution and any error that might
occurr cannot always be attached to an existing error stack
frame. Thereforce, to give a stack frame for QUIT hooks and
to improve the readability of error traces for ED hooks in general,
a special EDHookFrame is added to every ED hook execution error.
Secondly, since QUIT hooks can themselves throw errors, we cannot
run it from an atexit() handler. Instead it's always called manually
before __successful__ program termination. An error in a QUIT hook
will result in a failure return code nevertheless.
Thirdly, errors in QUIT hooks should not prevent program termination
(in interactive mode), therefore they are only invoked from main()
and always in batch mode. I.e. if the interactive mode is terminated
(EX$$), SciTECO will switch back to batch mode and run the QUIT
hook there. This is also symmetric to program startup, which is
always in batch mode.
This means that Interface::event_loop() no longer runs indefinitely.
If it returns, this signals that the interface shut down and
batch mode may be restored by SciTECO.
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* it must be initialized after the UI (Interface::main), so I added
a View::initialize() function
* the old initialize() method was renamed to setup()
* use a global instance of QRegister::view so it is guaranteed to
be destroyed only after any QRegisters that could still need it
* Document API adapted to work with ViewCurrent references
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The user interface provides a Scintilla view abstraction and
every buffer is based on a view. All Q-Register strings use
a single dedicated view to save memory and initialization time
when using many string registers.
* this means we can finally implement a working lexer configuration
and it only has to be done once when the buffer is first added
to the ring. It is unnecessary to magically restore the lexer
styles upon rubout of EB (very hard to implement anyway). It
is also not necessary to rerun the lexer configuration macro
upon rubout which would be hard to reconcile with SciTECO's
basic design since every side-effect should be attached to a
character.
* this means that opening buffers is slightly slower now
because of the view initialization
* on the other hand, macros with many string q-reg operations
are faster now, since the document must no longer be changed
on the buffer's view and restored later on.
* also now we can make a difference between editing a document
in a view and changing the current view, which reduces UI calls
* the Document class has been retained as an abstraction about
Scintilla documents, used by QRegister Strings.
It had to be made virtual, so the view on which the document
is created can be specified by a virtual function.
There is no additional space overhead for Documents.
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* the GError expection has been renamed to GlibError, to avoid
nameclashes when working from the SciTECO namespace
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normally, since SciTECO is not a library, this is not strictly
necessary since every library should use proper name prefixes
or namespaces for all global declarations to avoid name clashes.
However
* you cannot always rely on that
* Scintilla does violate the practice of using prefixes or namespaces.
The public APIs are OK, but it does define global functions/methods,
e.g. for "Document" that clashed with SciTECO's "TECODocument" class at
link-time.
Scintilla can put its definitions in a namespace, but this feature
cannot be easily enabled without patching Scintilla.
* a "SciTECO" namespace will be necessary if "SciTECO" is ever to be
turned into a library. Even if this library will have only a C-linkage
API, it must ensure it doesn't clutter the global namespace.
So the old "TECODocument" class was renamed back to "Document"
(SciTECO::Document).
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interface object definition
* they still define their own classes (e.g. InterfaceNCurses),
InterfaceCurrent is a typedef
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* results in better error messages, e.g. when opening files
* the case that a file to be opened (EB) exists but is not readably is handled for the first time
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bad_allocs and convert them to State::Error
* will allow some degree of OOM handling
* currently does not work since the exception specifications prevent bad_allocs from propagating.
exception specification usage must be completely revised
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* use to get line and column into a stack frame
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* when an error is thrown, stack frames are collected on clean up, up to
the toplevel macro
* the toplevel macro decides how to display the error
* now errors in interactive and batch mode are displayed differently
* in batch mode, a backtrace is displayed as a sequence of messages
* Execute::file() forwards errors correctly
* the correct error in the file is displayed in interactive mode
* necessary to build the stack trace
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* compiler does not warn by default: this actually makes sense
* so we don't need any unused-attributes
* less GCC-extension based
* on older GCCs I think -Wunused-parameters was enabled by -Wall
we should add -Wno-unused-parameters if that's the case
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init_priority attribute
* we cannot use weak symbols in MinGW, so we avoid init_priority for symbol
initialization by compiling the empty definitions into
sciteco-minimal but the real ones into sciteco
(had to add new file symbols-minimal.cpp)
* this fixes compilation/linking on LLVM Clang AND Dragonegg
since their init_priority attribute is broken!
this will likely be fixed in the near future but broken versions
will be around for some time
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since including glib.h on LLVM-Clang (32-bit) results in NULL being
redefined to 0 and compiler warnings being emitted when NULL is used
as sentinels
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* fixes sudo sciteco: will still use the real user's .teco_ini
* when run with real user as root, will look in root's home dir
* use g_get_home_dir() as a fallback
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* storage size should always be 64 (gint64) to aid macro portability
* however, for performance reasons users compiling from source might
explicitly compile with 32 bit integers
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* Scintilla is now initialized from main() using Interface::main()
* Scintilla initialization depends on initialization of objects in the
global namespace (otherwise the Lexer catalogue may not be filled
properly and lexing may not work). Lexer modules were initialized
after SciTECO interface initialization
* merged Scintilla initialization (Interface::main()) with interface
option parsing
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* line-number style must be explicitly set, even after CLEARALLSTYLES
* margin widhts are in pixels (except in Scinterm), so we must determine the
pixels requiered by a number of digits (e.g. 5 digits)
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initialization revised
* g_get_environ() appears to be broken, at least in Wine and Win2k
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* distinction no longer useful since string part of register
is now never pre-initialized
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* SCITECOPATH environment variable defaults to this directory
* manpage updated
* default teco.ini updated: no need to generate it anymore
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e.g. G{$HOME} will insert the HOME environment variable
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* allows us to switch between buffers/registers when editing the
commandline
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* there was a dependency on interface initialization.
it did not cause issues because destruction order was
by chance.
* introduced INIT_PRIO and PRIO_* macros to easy initialization order declaration
(using a PRIO_* formula makes code self-documenting)
* also used this to clean up QRegisterTable initialization
(we do not need the explicit initialize() method)
* also used to clean up symbols initialization
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