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g_listenv()
* This is assumed to fix current Windows CI build problems caused by g_getenv() returning NULL
for keys contained in g_listenv(), which is probably a new Glib bug.
* Using g_get_environ() is more efficient since we do not have to repeatedly search
through the environment array with g_getenv().
* Windows 2000 - which supposedly relied on the old code because of its own bugs - is
no longer supported by our minimum Glib version anyway.
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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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* avoid emitting SCI_UNDO undo tokens if the Scintilla undo action would actually be empty
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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.
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* This is already fixed upstream, but we still include the workaround, so we can
build with the current MSYS package and during CI.
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* 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.
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* this is a regression in Gtk+ 3
* nowadays, Alt-Gr-keycombos are sometimes reported as Ctrl+Alt
which resulted in control characters to be inserted
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* the same is done in the Curses UI
* important for platforms that require busy polling of memory usage (Win32)
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* 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.
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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.
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* 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.
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decrease the binary size significantly
* -rdynamic was added to make sure that malloc replacement functions were exported and visible to shared libraries.
It was more or less currently only used on Linux and Haiku as Win32 and Mac OS do not override malloc.
* The option however exported all symbols which would prevent them to be removed at link-time.
Other optimizations could also be affected, perhaps resulting in less inlining.
* On Haiku, -rdynamic is not supported and cause build failures.
* It has been tested (nm -D ./sciteco | grep ' T ') that malloc() and friends are exported even when linking with -O3.
Even the __attribute__((used)) has been shown to be superfluous, but we keep it anyway just to be sure.
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* Only x86_64 builds are supported for the time being.
They have been tested on Mac OS 10.15 (Darling) and 11 (thanks to @dertuxmalwieder).
* Curses glitches remain on Mac OS as reported by @dertuxmalwieder.
Under Darling with a Linux terminal emulator, everything looks as it should.
* We don't build AppBundles or pkg installers but instead came up with a rather
ideosyncratic way of packaging:
The packages are tarballs of the installation tree with all dependant libraries
added under /usr/local/lib/sciteco - thanks to dylibbundler.
The archives are supposed to be unpacked into the UNIX tree root (`tar -C / -xf sciteco.tar`)
and it will be necessary to "de-quarantine" all the binaries.
Details will be documented in the wiki:
https://github.com/rhaberkorn/sciteco/wiki/Mac-OS-Support
* Perhaps we will also ship an installation script (TODO).
* AppBundles would have the disadvantage that they cannot be directly installed
into $PATH. On the other hand, this would be relatively easy to do afterwards.
An AppBundle would need certain code adaptions for Mac OS, though.
* Gtk+ builds are not yet supported as I cannot test them with "Darling".
* All Nightly Build artifact names now mention the target architecture.
* build Win32 nightly builds with windows-2019
* May improve compatibility slightly in the future as we should
always build our binaries on the oldest possible system.
* Does not change anything currently since windows-2019 == windows-latest.
* CI still uses windows-latest and may therefore one day switch to windows-2022.
* updated README
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* This has been broken since the C conversion (432ad24e382681f1c13b07e8486e91063dd96e2e).
* Fixes getopt.tes, although no script actually checked the contents of
the getopt.X numeric Q-Registers.
grosciteco.tes also made use of this. It's unclear what has consequently been broken.
* NOTE: TECOC does not seem to support -Uq - this is a SciTECO extension.
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* This has always been broken as Gtk will not hide the
window before suspending.
* It has been deemed to complicated to implement at the moment.
Even if we can catch SIGTSTP (not that trivial), it seems to be
impossible - at least without some lower level Xlib interaction -
to hide the program window before raising SIGTSTP.
* Even if everything worked, it is unclear whether it is actually
desirable to suspend a GUI application - ^Z may be pressed accidentally
and it will be inconvenient to resume the job.
So we would additionally have to check for the existence of
an attached console.
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* Keeping a key pressed could still result in missing graphics updates and thus
visual feedback.
* Now try to process all Gdk events after thawing the window.
It no longer appears to happen.
* On the downside, key processing is much slower now which may result
in keys being queued up and processed some time even after releasing it.
There may be workarounds for that as well...
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* Due to introducing another gtk_main_iteration_do(),
there could indeed be unforseen recursions of teco_interface_key_pressed_cb()
that resulted in additional teco_interface_handle_key_press() calls.
* This did not cause crashes, but we better prevent recursions altogether.
While emptying the key event queue, we only allow other events to be queued
by all possibly recursive invocations of teco_interface_key_pressed_cb().
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* This was surprisingly easy to implement as Gtk+ 3 already
supports it via GtkPlug.
* Allows embedding SciTECO into other Xembed-aware applications.
* Unfortunately there are very few generic Xembed hosts.
tabbed (https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/) would be one of them.
It could be used to add tabs to SciTECO even on non-tiling window managers:
$ tabbed sciteco --xembed
* Unfortunately, it does not seem to be possible to use this feature
to let SciTECO replace the contents of a terminal window even though
many terminal emulators provide $WINDOWID.
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* Processing a queued list of key events with an idle timer turned out
to be tricky.
Since teco_interface_pop_key_idle_cb() would eventually drive the main
loop with gtk_main_iteration_do() which may result in a recursive
invocation of teco_interface_pop_key_idle_cb() which will eventually crash.
* We'd have to mask the idle watcher during the execution time of teco_interface_pop_key_idle_cb().
* Therefore it has been decided to use a tight loop again to process the
event queue.
After thawing the window, we now manually drive the event loop with gtk_main_iteration_do()
to make sure that the UI is updated.
This could result in a recursive invocation of teco_interface_key_pressed_cb() of course but
the callback is already secured against this.
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* 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.
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* The old implementation could apparently result in use-after-free
situations that are not related to unstopped watchers in Scintilla.
This would result in frequent crashes.
Possibly, this only now manifests after upgrading to Scintilla 5.
* The old implementation also had the bug that freeing views
(e.g. via <EF>) would not release any memory in batch mode since the
main loop is not triggered.
* I don't pretend to understand why we need gtk_widget_destroy()
instead of g_object_unref().
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* teco_interface_key_pressed_cb() could be called multiple times __before__
the idle timer (teco_interface_pop_key_idle_cb()) fires.
The recursion check would consequently not work and we started the
idle timer multiple times.
This would eventually crash.
* We now process the first queued key immediately.
The alternative would be to store the idle watcher id.
* The idle watcher's priority has been increased.
Since redrawing is guaranteed to take place at G_PRIORITY_HIGH_IDLE,
it is sufficient to process keys at G_PRIORITY_DEFAULT_IDLE.
* Should also reduce latency slightly.
* fixes up 71bf522231d2998f1fb183f343c2b1f9dbcd3b15
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* Test case: sciteco -e '[a'
[aEX$$ in interactive mode would also crash.
* No longer use a destructor - it was executed after the Q-Reg view was
destroyed.
* Instead, we now explicitly call teco_qreg_stack_clear() in main().
* Added a regression test case.
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updated regularily when holding down a key
* gdk_window_freeze_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only() is apparently no longer necessary
with Scintilla 5.
* When holding down a key constantly, it was not uncommon that the display would not be updated
until it is released.
This is now worked around by using a low priority idle timer for emptying the teco_interface.event_queue.
This ensures that Gtk can call other watchers after every keypress.
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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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* Was only broken on Gtk+ 3.24 for Windows with the builtin theme engine.
* The warning level was also not themed correctly because of a typo.
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* This was an ancient bug apparently broken since d503c3b07c2157658f699294c44ad5be244727a5 (year 2014)
and was therefore broken even in v0.6.4.
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* We don't need the PNG icons on Windows as the compiled-in ICO should suffice
* Ship the dependencies of the SVG pixbuf loader.
* The PNG pixbuf loader is still distributed, as we at least need it
for loading the icon theme.
* Install a loaders.cache - without it, the pixbuf loaders won't be found.
This file can be generated by gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders but apparently has
to be modified by hand.
* Regenerate the icon cache using gtk-update-icon-cache.
* Icon themes are found now.
Unfortunately, we have to distribute the entire Adwaita icon theme
as distributing only the scalable (SVG) icons does not work for some
strange reason (FIXME).
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* Since we don't have an absolute and known installation directory,
we should look for these files in the same directory as sciteco.exe.
* For the time being, we look for them in $SCITECOCONFIG which defaults
to that directory.
* Cannot be a final solution as you may tweak $SCITECOCONFIG to
fit an Unix-like environment (eg. set SCITECOCONFIG=$HOME).
In such configurations it may also not be suitable to always
look in the directory of sciteco.exe since that may be some /bin dir.
Considering that GTK+ forces us to preserve some kind of UNIX-like
directory hierarchy even for portable builds, we should perhaps
install the icons into the hicolor icon theme.
This would also simplify Debian packaging.
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* 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.
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with Unix linebreaks
* when hosted on Windows, the default is DOS linebreaks
* Unix linebreaks are in many cases more consistent as all other sources use Unix linebreaks
* woman pages with Unix linebreaks are slightly faster to load due to EOL conversion
* especially Groff input must not contain CR as it will otherwise log lots of warnings
(affects htbl.tes and tedoc.tes).
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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.)
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"optimized" code-path on UNIX
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* Turned out to be useful in debugging the "Memory limiting during spawning" test case
on Windows.
* Use UNIX shell emulation (0,128ED) in all test cases.
Should be necessary in order to run the testsuite on Windows, but
it is currently broken anyway.
* avoid <EG> when preprocessing files - use GNU Make's $(shell) instead
* Fixes builds on MinGW where there are still problems with <EC> and <EG>
at least in the virtual build environment.
* Results in a another automake warning about non-POSIX Make constructs.
This is not critical since we depend on GNU Make anyway.
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* 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.
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(<S>) for multiplication overflows
* Since the numbers come from "outside" (SciTECO scripts) this is easily possible,
resulting either in missed checks or even memory corruption.
* In particular, this fixes the "Searching with large counts" test case on 32-bit builds.
Perhaps at least one CI build should be 32-bit?
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* this flag could negatively affect optimizations
* fixes builds on MinGW
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don't build an empty libdlmalloc
* on some platforms (eg. Darwin/mac OS) we cannot apparently build empty
convenience libraries
* instead, we use conditional subdirectories and a conditional library dependency
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* I could not get malloc replacement via dlmalloc to work.
This does not work like on Linux by overwriting weak malloc() functions.
It should theoretically be possible to overwrite the default malloc zone
but I could not properly debug this since I can only build for Mac OS
via CI.
* memory polling seems to work though - test suite runs through
and it includes memory limiting test cases.
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would be exceeded
* Checking whether the allocation succeeded may not prevent exceeding the memory
limit excessively.
* Even if the memory limit is not exceeded, the allocation can fail theoretically
and the program would terminate abnormally.
This however is true for all allocations in SciTECO (via glib).
* teco_memory_check() therefore now supports checking whether an allocation would
exceed the memory limit which will be useful before very large or variable allocations
in addition to the regular checking in teco_machine_main_step().
* As a sideeffect, this fixes the "Searching with large counts" test case on Mac OS
where too large allocations were not detected as expected (apparently Mac OS
happily gives out ridiculously large chunks of memory).
Now, all platforms are guaranteed to have the same behaviour.
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NOTE: Aliases and weak symbols must not be used for portability reasons!
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file systems
* There is a "Scintilla.h" as well.
* should fix macOS and builds on native Windows hosts
* It wasn't practical to refer to the Scintilla includes using paths since
the Scintilla location is configurable (--with-scintilla).
So we'd have to write something like #include <include/Scintilla.h>.
For Scinterm we cannot avoid collisions neither as its path is also
configurable (--with-scinterm).
Effectively, we must prevent name clashes across SciTECO and all
of Scintilla and Scinterm.
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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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* 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.
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* Array allocations were not properly accounted since the compiler
would call the replacement new() which assumes that it would
always be called along with the replacement sized-deletion.
This is not true for array new[] allocations resulting in
a constant increase of memory_usage and unrecoverable situations.
This problem however could be fixed in principle by avoiding
memory counting for arrays or falling back to malloc_usable_size.
* The bigger problem was that some STLs (new_allocator) are broken, calling the
non-sized delete for regular new() calls which could in principle
be matched by sized-delete.
This is also the reason why I had to provide a non-sized
delete replacement, which in reality intoduced memory leaks.
* Since adding checks for the broken compiler versions or a configure-time
check that tries to detect these broken systems seems tedious,
I simply removed that optimization.
* This means we always have to rely on malloc_usable_size() now
for non-SciTECO-object memory measurement.
* Perhaps in the future, there should be an option for allowing
portable measurement at the cost of memory usage, by prefixing
each memory chunk with the chunk size.
Maintainers could then decide to optimize their build for "speed"
at the cost of memory overhead.
* Another solution to this non-ending odyssey might be to introduce
our own allocator, replacing malloc(), and allowing our own
precise measurements.
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