[ jEdit-announce ] jEdit 2.6pre4 now available

[Slava P. <sp...@gj...>]

jEdit 2.6pre4 is now available from <http://jedit.sourceforge.net>.
This is mostly a bug fix release, with a few enhancements. It also
fixed the frequently-reported bug about 'save as' giving I/O errors
(and overwriting??!!) directories when they are double-clicked.

+ New Features

- TCL syntax highlighting (Michael P Jacobson)
- Passive-mode FTP can now be enabled in the Global Options dialog box
  (Mike Dillon)

+ Enhancements

- Improved abbreviations feature:
  - Abbrevs are now only expanded when a space is entered
  - Abbrevs are now only saved on exit if they were changed while
    the editor was running. This improves performance a little bit
  - Abbrev expansions can now contain more than one line; "\n" inside an
    expansion will create a new line
  - The caret position can be specified by placing "\|" inside an abbrev
    expansion
- I/O and VFS browser improvements:
  - Filename filter combo box in VFS browser is now a text field
  - New VFSUpdate message is sent when a file or a directory changes. As a
    result, VFS browsers are automatically updated when files are created
    or deleted (within jEdit)
  - When a file is added or removed, the VFS browser tree view now only
    updates the branch where the file is located, not the entire tree
  - The VFS browser now displays an error message if you attempt to execute
    more than one request simultaneously. Because the browser was not
    designed with this in mind, it would cause strange problems
- Previously, to position the caret on a specific marker or line number
  from the command line, you would write:
  jedit filename#<marker name>
  jedit filename#+<line>
  Now, you must write:
  jedit filename +marker:<marker name>
  jedit filename +line:<line>
- This is not an enhancement, but anyway: the -readonly command line
  flag has been removed
- doc/NEWS.txt written
- Documentation updates

+ Bug Fixes

- When using FTP URLs which don't specify the user name (for example,
  ftp://hostname) jEdit would prompt for the user name/password for
  every VFS operation
- FtpVFS no longer throws NullPointerExceptions when an error occurs
  while connecting to a server
- A bug in the WorkThreadPool.waitForRequests() method would cause
  HyperSearch to begin searching inside buffers before they were fully
  loaded
- The 'Up' button in the VFS browser would behave incorrectly if it was
  pressed while the current directory was a file system root
- Double-click on directory bug in 'save as' dialog box fixed yet again
- The 'New Directory' command didn't appear in the 'More' menu of the
  VFS browser
- Closing the global options dialog box while a VFS browser was open
  would reload the current directory twice
- Closing all buffers didn't work properly if the view was split and
  buffer tabs was disabled
- Closing and opening buffers would always shift the focus to the last
  text area if the view was split
- Using the tree view with the 'favorites:' protocol would cause the
  VFS browser to use the wrong VFS when deleting and renaming files
- Sometimes, buffers would be loaded empty due to a bug in the
  WorkThreadPool class