Release Notes for NEdit Version 5.5, October 2004
This file contains last minute notes to users about the release, which are not
included in the documentation or README files included with the distribution
kits. It also contains change information, for users who are interested in
what bugs have been fixed, and what features have been added in the current
version.
If you are upgrading NEdit from a version prior to 5.0, please see the notes in
the README file which came with the (source or executable) distribution kit,
about updating macros and font settings in your .nedit file.
New features in 5.5
- The most important new feature is the introduction of window tabs
(SF patches #893177).
- More efficient string search operations for the macro language.
- Auto-scrolling is now (partly) configurable through the preference menu.
- Find and Clear buttons for i-search bar (SF patch #891884).
- Faster user-defined menu creation (SF patch #891126).
- Open documents on current desktop (SF patch #963120)
- Superuser receives a warning when trying to overwrite a read-only file.
- Simplified global font resources.
- Macro language: added new $args[] array and removed 9 arguments limit
for macros
- Improved Latex & Python syntax highlighting patterns
Bugs fixed in 5.5
- If underscore (_) is among the word delimiters for a language mode then
word boundary regexes will work as expected. (SF bug #1008656)
- Problem with writing history file on VMS (SF bug #933146).
- Race condition fix for running NEdit in -sync mode (SF bug #978104).
- Removed obsolete special window title treatment on SGI (SF bug #779454).
- Forbid the deletion of the "Plain" Text Drawing Style (SF patch #970491).
- File descriptor handling fix that allows shell commands to be invoked
asynchronously.
- Crash on Solaris when dragging a calltip (SF bug #925951).
- Preference resource name mistakes (SF bug #884862).
- Don't delete incremental backup files when incremental backups are off
(SF bug #878183).
- Allow zero-length ranges to be added to range sets (SF bug #871209).
- Improved shell syntax highlighting patterns (SF bug #770855).
- Regular expression crash fix (SF bug #987102).
Changes since 5.5RC1
- Using exit() in macro no longer causes hang (SF bug #999021).
- Updated rangeset documentation (SF bug #1005442).
- Minor changes to the regular expression word boundary semantics
(SF bug #1008656).
- Tabs keep reasonable sizes when things get crowded (SF bug #1005064).
- Many unnecessary file status checks are avoided.
- Warn On Exit also affects closing of window with multiple tabs
(SF bug #1006830)
- "File Modified Externally" dialogs are only allowed for top tabs.
- Broken virtual key bindings workaround was restored (problems with
page-up and page-down).
- Preference file number was bumped.
- Dialogs' OK button layout fixes.
- Fix for SF bug #999820: spaces in dialog button mnemonics.
- Fix for SF bug #996786: problems with overtype mode
Changes since 5.5RC2
- Less confusing menu wording (SF bug #1023089).
- Shell command output is now sent to a new window or a new tab,
depending on the tabbed editing preference settings.
- Detaching/Moving non-top tab should not change top tab (SF bug #1020035).
- Opening new window from a tabbed window no longer diminishes size
(SF bug #1011233).
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