[cedet-semantic] ECB 1.90 released!

[Berndl, K. <kla...@sd...>]

ECB 1.90 is released!
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From this release on ECB has a new official maintainer: Klaus Berndl
<kla...@sd...>.

Also the homepage of ECB has moved to http://ecb.sourceforge.net.
The old homepage at http://home.swipnet.se/mayhem/ecb.html is not =
longer
supported.



How to get it:
--------------

If you are using ECB 1.80 then you can just call "M-x ecb-download-ecb" =
if you
are online. ECB will then download latest ECB (1.90) and install it for =
you.

Or go to the new homepage at http://ecb.sourceforge.net and download it =
from
there.



What is new in 1.90:
--------------------

ECB 1.90 has a lot of new features and fixed some annoying bugs. Here =
is only
an excerpt from the HISTORY file (which contains the complete list of
enhancements). Here are some of the news in ECB 1.90:

* Fixed an annoying bug which results in an error "Wrong type argument:
  integer-or-marker-p nil)" after a full buffer reparse. ECB 1.80 has =
repaired
  its internal state but nevertheless the user had to reclick on the =
same
  token after this error to really jump to a token. With ECB 1.90 this =
bug has
  been gone.

* Now ECB displays at every start a "Tip of the day" in a dialog-box. =
This can
  be switched off with option `ecb-tip-of-the-day'.
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* New feature: Now the methods buffer is auto. expanded if the node =
related to
  the current token in the edit-window is not visible (probably because =
its
  parent is collapsed).
 =20
* New command `ecb-expand-methods-nodes' which allows precisely =
expanding
  tokens with a certain indentation-level.

* Rewritten the mechanism for storing customized window-sizes. See =
option
  ecb-layout-window-sizes and the command ecb-store-window-sizes and
  ecb-restore-window-sizes. Now the sizes are always saved as fractions =
of the
  width (resp. height) of the ECB-frame, so the stored sizes are always
  correct regardless of the current frame-size.

* Rewritten cache-mechanism for directories and sources:
  This results in a speed-boost for big-size directories.

* Added a complete new section "The layout-engine of ECB" to the =
online-help
  which describes in detail how to program new layouts and new special
  windows.

* Fixed some bugs concerning the eshell-integration.

* Speedbar is now integrated in ECB and can be used instead of the =
standard
  ECB-directories buffer.

* Naming and managing of layouts has been changed! Now a layout is not =
longer
  identified by an integer but by an arbitrary string! Example: The =
layout
  with index 0 in ECB <=3D 1.80 is now named "left1" in ECB 1.90.

  Therefore the name of the option 'ecb-layout-nr' has changed to
  'ecb-layout-name'! See the docstring of 'ecb-layout-name' for the =
names of
  all buildin layouts. ECB autom. upgrades the old-option to the new =
one!

* A lot of new hooks

* Adding a new layout type "left-right" which allows the =
ECB-tree-windows to
  be located at the left and the right side of the ECB-frame.

* Now ECB can be "autoloaded".

* Now ECB offers a command `ecb-create-new-layout' for interactively =
creating
  new layouts "by example".


/Klaus Berndl


Klaus Berndl                     mailto: kla...@sd...
sd&m AG                         http://www.sdm.de
software design & management
Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 M=FCnchen, Germany
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