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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #239 pageHeader prints untitled instead of document title

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

This is fixed in version (soon to be released) version 9.2.


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** [tickets:#239] pageHeader prints untitled instead of document title**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Sat Sep 26, 2020 06:25 AM UTC by Bernard Desgraupes
**Last Updated:** Sat Sep 26, 2020 06:25 AM UTC
**Owner:** Bernard Desgraupes


(This bug was reported by Burkhard Schmidt on AlphaTcl-User)

After I turn on "Print Header" in Alpha's global preferences, indeed a nice header appears on each page printed. With one exception: The document name always is "Untitled" instead of (what I would naively expect) the file name of the document. Is there an easy way to get the document name into the header printed?



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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #239 pageHeader prints untitled instead of document title

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

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** [tickets:#239] pageHeader prints untitled instead of document title**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Sat Sep 26, 2020 06:25 AM UTC by Bernard Desgraupes
**Last Updated:** Sat Sep 26, 2020 06:25 AM UTC
**Owner:** Bernard Desgraupes


(This bug was reported by Burkhard Schmidt on AlphaTcl-User)

After I turn on "Print Header" in Alpha's global preferences, indeed a nice header appears on each page printed. With one exception: The document name always is "Untitled" instead of (what I would naively expect) the file name of the document. Is there an easy way to get the document name into the header printed?



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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Developer Build 9.2d1 (10073)

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Eberhard,

thank you for your message.

Normally there is nothing special to do to use the internal PDF viewer after compiling a tex file. The mechanism automatically displays the pdf output in an Alpha pdf viewer. If this is not the case, make sure that the « viewPDF »  service (in Alpha -> Global Setup -> Helper Applications) is set to Alpha-TeX.
If you want to synchronise from the PDF to the Tex file, just option-click on the desired location in the pdf viewer.

cheers,
Bernard

> Le 24 sept. 2020 à 15:59, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> as usual I like to bleed on the edge :-)-O
> 
> I need to delve deeper this weekend, because I forgot where to switch 
> the PDF viewer, currently it brings up Skim which I use for most 
> everything.
> 
> I notice, on and off, that when trying to format indented mail messages 
> that Gianfar does not work as intended. Can't pinpoint it though. I 
> will try to reproduce and then try same message with the older version.
> 
> greetings, el
> 
> On 21/09/2020 08:45, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have uploaded a new developer build of Alpha.  This is Alpha 9.2d1
>> ("Gianfar_d1") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater.  This is /not/ a final
>> release.  It is meant for developers and beta testers.
> [...]
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Developer Build 9.2d1 (10073)

[Dr E. W L. <el...@li...>]

Bernard,

as usual I like to bleed on the edge :-)-O

I need to delve deeper this weekend, because I forgot where to switch 
the PDF viewer, currently it brings up Skim which I use for most 
everything.

I notice, on and off, that when trying to format indented mail messages 
that Gianfar does not work as intended. Can't pinpoint it though. I 
will try to reproduce and then try same message with the older version.

greetings, el

On 21/09/2020 08:45, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have uploaded a new developer build of Alpha.  This is Alpha 9.2d1
> ("Gianfar_d1") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater.  This is /not/ a final
> release.  It is meant for developers and beta testers.
[...]


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[Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Developer Build 9.2d1 (10073)

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi all,

I have uploaded a new developer build of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.2d1 ("Gianfar_d1") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater. 
This is not a final release. It is meant for developers and beta testers. 

This new version contains some major improvements. The most noticeable is that Alpha now has its own internal PDF viewers. This is a great new feature because it means that the pdf output of your latex files is now displayed directly by Alpha (no need to use external PDF viewers anymore). Furthermore, Alpha now also incorporates the synctex technology (written by Jérôme Laurens) so that you have two-way synchronisation between your latex sources and the pdf output. Here is how it works:
- if you set the insertion cursor at some position in your latex document and want to go to the corresponding location in the pdf file, you just have to select the command Latex menu ↣ Process ↣ Synchronise. Alpha then brings the pdf document to front at the right location and blinks a small rectangle there to help you spot this position.
- the other way round, if you want to go from some location inside the pdf output back to the corresponding position in the latex source file, you just have to Option-Click on the desired position in the pdfviewer .

That’s all there is to it. 

Another great new feature, in another area, is that Alpha now has its own internal command to execute comparisons between files or folders. So it does not rely anymore on external resources. The interface (offered by the Compare submenu in the Tools menu) is almost unchanged. There is just a new item to set Comparison Options, and folders comparison has its own separate navigation windows.

Please test these new features and report any problem or remark before the final 9.2 release.


Disclaimer: this development build reflects the current state of the source code and should be used only for testing the most recent features. 
It has been built with the sources at revision 1960 in the Subversion repository at SourceForge. 
Version:	9.2d1 (devel)
Date:	2020-09-21
Build:	10073
Revision:	1960

See at the end of this message, the main changes contained in this developer release. 

Here is the URL to download the application: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/DevBuild/Alpha_devbuild.zip/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/DevBuild/Alpha_devbuild.zip/download> (38.33M) 

Checksums: 
MD5:	dc2bb0623637eba4629d48127d2a0151
SHA1:	dc6e4ef1addce9b21957538b1b44e7c1f7e38bf8
RMD160:	f59f406be15b30d1611d25ba229347f763526b4d
SHA256:	d227b0346dfadc7fd20fec088b90243f50664c69af3b42ac58748aa55dd61512


If you find problems with the application, don't hesitate to post bug reports (go to Alpha's Bug Tracker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/>). 

Thank you for using Alpha. 
Cheers, 
Bernard
 <>Changes from previous version

New core command [synctex] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/synctex.html> to handle synchronization between LaTeX source files and the PDF output. This relies on the synctex library written by Jérôme Laurens (see Synchronization for TeX <https://github.com/jlaurens/synctex> on Github).
New view PDFView <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_pdfview> for the [view] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html> command.
New built-in PDF viewer for LaTeX mode with full two-way synchronization.
New dynamic commands associated with each PDFView <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_pdfview> view for manipulating the content of the text. See the $pdfToken command <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/pdfViewer.html> help page.
New core command [diffFiles] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/diffFiles.html> to perform a diff between two text files.
Modified the behavior of the [search] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/search.html> command in the case of a backward regexp search: the command does not match anymore at the starting position. The semantics of the -l option has also been slightly modified in the case of a backward literal search.
Improved indentation in C modes.
Revision of Alpha's Compare <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/CompareHelp.html> package based on the new [diffFiles] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/diffFiles.html> core command. Alpha does not use external tools anymore for executing comparisons, in particular the extra application DiffBOA.app has retired and has been removed from the bundle.
The helper application AlphaUpdater.app has been removed and is replaced by shell scripts invoked directly by the core.
The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #235: spellchecker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/235/>
Ticket #236: spellchecker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/236/>

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Questions about the C Mode

[Ces V. <ces...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 8:12 PM Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...>
wrote:
>
> Hi César,
>
> thank you for your message.

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply, Bernard!!

> [...]
> This is not supported at the moment but should be easy to implement. I’ll
try to assemble something and will post the code.
> If I understand correctly, when you press the right arrow for instance
and there are four spaces, you want the cursor to immediately jump four
positions to the right.

Actually, I'm not sure how other editors do it, because I have always used
true tabs in my code. I want to change to spaces now, given how strong the
general advice is about this. I know that some editors have a key
combination (such as Ctrl, Opt, or other) which when combined with the
cursor keys, jump to the next non-whitespace character in the line.
However, I feel that's not natural. I mean, this should work without any
key combination, because every coder uses tabs (the only difference is that
you emulate tabs with spaces, but in your mind you are using tabs, so the
natural behaviour should be exactly the same as if they were true tabs).
However, I don't know how other editors do this. It would be interesting to
take a look at vim, emacs, or other editors out there for seeing how they
do that.

> [...]
> For instance if you want to bind function::next to Opt-Ctrl-N  and
function::prev to Opt-Ctrl-P, put the following instructions in your file
CPrefs.tcl (select Alpha ↣ C Mode Setup ↣ Edit Prefs File to open it)
>     binding create -tag C {oz 'N'} function::next
>     binding create -tag C {oz 'P'} function::prev
>
> Then after relaunching Alpha, the key combos will work as expected when
you are in C mode.

Hmm... it seems function::next and function::prev have a weird behaviour in
C mode: If I have a /* */ comment made of several lines, the function::next
and prev jump to such comment lines in addition to function definitions...
it's definitely something unexpected going on there...

> [...]
> Usually in Alpha, this kind of thing is achieved by
Shift-Command-Double-Click but I think this is not implemented in the C
modes. I’ll see if it is feasible.

Ok, keep me informed. Anyway, the usefulness of such a feature is most of
the time across-files (I mean, you are working in a C file where a function
is called, but however the function is defined in another C file in your
Fileset... I don't know if Alpha supports looking for marks from another
file because I just started using it today and I'm a novice). However,
sometimes you are working in a large C file (imagine the Nuklear UI source,
for example), and in that scenario finding a mark in the same file would be
very useful too.

> [...]
> If you Option-Click in the toolbar or titlebar of a document window,
you’ll see a popover with the list of all the sibling files. Double-click
in the popover on the file you want to edit.

This only lists the siblings, but, however, I'm getting used to the Windows
menu, from where you can also switch windows reasonably quickly. Anyway, I
believe that a Fileset combo (having all the files in the Fileset) would be
very convenient, especially considering that there's a lot of empty space
in the windows toolbar.

Thanks a lot for all your comments, Bernard!

Kind regards,

César

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Questions about the C Mode

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi César,

thank you for your message.

I can answer some of your questions now. For the others I’ll have to look in the code and will answer later.

> Le 14 août 2020 à 18:10, Ces VLC <ces...@gm...> a écrit :
> 
> Hi!
> 
> First of all, thanks a lot for the development of this editor!! It seems to be very powerful, but however it's mostly unknown... I encourage you to announce it more, so that more users are aware of it!
> 
> My interest is for C programming (the vast majority of files I edit are C files). After trying how to do some things in Alpha, I got some questions that either are not documented, or I wasn't able to find the proper place at the documentation:
> 
> - If you indent using spaces instead of tabs (as usually recommended when writing C code), can I use the cursor keys in a way that they detect contiguous spaces as tabs, for easier navigation? I mean, can I make the cursor keys behave like if I was using tabs instead of spaces?

This is not supported at the moment but should be easy to implement. I’ll try to assemble something and will post the code.
If I undestand correctly, when you press the right arrow for instance and there are four spaces, you want the cursor to immediately jump four positions to the right. 


> - Is it possible to jump to the previous/next mark in the file, from where the cursor is located? When I edit C files, it's very convenient to jump to the next function/struct/definition/etc, or to the previous one. When using the C mode, there are two little buttons that let me navigate to marks by their name, but I found no option for jumping to the next or to the previous one.

There is support for this in  Alpha using the function::next and function::prev procs. This is used by many modes (like R and TeX modes, etc) but surprisingly this is not exposed in the C mode (the main reason is that they do not have a menu of their own). 
This is easy to implement though by creating menu shortcuts for this.

For instance if you want to bind function::next to Opt-Ctrl-N  and function::prev to Opt-Ctrl-P, put the following instructions in your file CPrefs.tcl (select Alpha ↣ C Mode Setup ↣ Edit Prefs File to open it)
    binding create -tag C {oz 'N'} function::next
    binding create -tag C {oz 'P'} function::prev

Then after relaunching Alpha, the key combos will work as expected when you are in C mode.



> 
> - Is it possible to jump to the mark of a function definition if you click on a call to such function? For example, I tried to select the function name, and I right-clicked hoping I would get an option for jumping to the mark where the function is defined, but however the contextual menu didn't have that option.
> 

Usually in Alpha, this kind of thing is achieved by Shift-Command-Double-Click but I think this is not implemented in the C modes. I’ll see if it is feasible.



> - This seems to be a dumb question, but I couldn't find any documentation: The tab key doesn't work even in plain text mode (I assume that in the C mode this is done to enforce the indentation style, but, however, in plain text mode I'd expect to be able to indent freely... why is the tab key disabled? Is there some preference for enabling it?

This is a famous Alpha idiosyncrasy : to obtain an actual tabulation (in any mode), you have to press Opt-Tab (and not just Tab). The Tab key alone is reserved for navigation in templates. For instance if you type ‘ifelse’ in C mode and then press the completion key (which Ctrl-Tab), Alpha inserts a template like this
if (•) {
	•
} else {
	•
} •

and the Tab key lets you fill jump to the next bullet as you fill the template.

So again, for an actual tabulation, press Opt-Tab.

This can be modified in Alpha ↣ Global Setup ↣ Keyboard Shortcuts ↣ Special Keys


> - Also, the automatic indentation in the C mode favours one style, but you'll know that there are different styles for C indentation and brace locations... for this reason I found it difficult to get used to the automatic indentation of the C mode... can I disable it? (I tried, but there are several options in the C mode that are not documented and also have a weird setting -such as code0, fixed0, etc-, and I didn't know how to proceed).

As a coincidence, I’m currently working on improving indentation in the C modes, so I’ll have a look.



> - Can I put a Fileset combobox in the window toolbar, for easily moving from one file to another one? There's the windows menu and the fileset menu, but it's not as convenient as having a quick combo for quickly choosing files…

If you Option-Click in the toolbar or titlebar of a document window, you’ll see a popover with the list of all the sibling files. Double-click in the popover on the file you want to edit.


> 
> - Ah, finally something that looks like a bug: It seems the Matlab mode robbed the ".m" suffix :-D so when you open the help for the Objective-C mode and you click on the example file, it's opened in Matlab mode, and you are told to be in the Matlab example (but it's actually the Objective-C example file=

There is a notion a preferred mapping to solve this problem (I also work a lot with ObjC and C files).
Go to Alpha ↣ Global Setup ↣ Preferred Mapping
then enter the  *.m  pattern in the next dialog,
then select ObjC in the following dialog
press OK

Now any file with .m extension will automatically open in ObjC mode instead of Matlab.



I hope this helps a little,

Bernard

[Alphacocoa-devel] Questions about the C Mode

[Ces V. <ces...@gm...>]

Hi!

First of all, thanks a lot for the development of this editor!! It seems to
be very powerful, but however it's mostly unknown... I encourage you to
announce it more, so that more users are aware of it!

My interest is for C programming (the vast majority of files I edit are C
files). After trying how to do some things in Alpha, I got some questions
that either are not documented, or I wasn't able to find the proper place
at the documentation:

- If you indent using spaces instead of tabs (as usually recommended when
writing C code), can I use the cursor keys in a way that they detect
contiguous spaces as tabs, for easier navigation? I mean, can I make the
cursor keys behave like if I was using tabs instead of spaces?

- Is it possible to jump to the previous/next mark in the file, from where
the cursor is located? When I edit C files, it's very convenient to jump to
the next function/struct/definition/etc, or to the previous one. When using
the C mode, there are two little buttons that let me navigate to marks by
their name, but I found no option for jumping to the next or to the
previous one.

- Is it possible to jump to the mark of a function definition if you click
on a call to such function? For example, I tried to select the function
name, and I right-clicked hoping I would get an option for jumping to the
mark where the function is defined, but however the contextual menu didn't
have that option.

- This seems to be a dumb question, but I couldn't find any documentation:
The tab key doesn't work even in plain text mode (I assume that in the C
mode this is done to enforce the indentation style, but, however, in plain
text mode I'd expect to be able to indent freely... why is the tab key
disabled? Is there some preference for enabling it?

- Also, the automatic indentation in the C mode favours one style, but
you'll know that there are different styles for C indentation and brace
locations... for this reason I found it difficult to get used to the
automatic indentation of the C mode... can I disable it? (I tried, but
there are several options in the C mode that are not documented and also
have a weird setting -such as code0, fixed0, etc-, and I didn't know how to
proceed).

- Can I put a Fileset combobox in the window toolbar, for easily moving
from one file to another one? There's the windows menu and the fileset
menu, but it's not as convenient as having a quick combo for quickly
choosing files...

- Ah, finally something that looks like a bug: It seems the Matlab mode
robbed the ".m" suffix :-D so when you open the help for the Objective-C
mode and you click on the example file, it's opened in Matlab mode, and you
are told to be in the Matlab example (but it's actually the Objective-C
example file=

I'm sorry to ask so many questions, but I couldn't find them in the
documentation.

Kind regards, and thanks a lot!

César

[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #238 Typesetting a TeX project from a component file

[John <uni...@us...>]

Scratch that. It is now working. I tried it many times before submitting the ticket without success. After I submitted the ticket, it failed one more time and then started working. I can't imagine what I might have changed.


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** [tickets:#238] Typesetting a TeX project from a component file**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Fri Aug 14, 2020 09:13 AM UTC by John
**Last Updated:** Fri Aug 14, 2020 09:13 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


I don't recall when this worked, but I know it did in Alpha 8. The Fileset Menu Help information seems to indicated that it should still work:

"Tex: Make a fileset of all parts of a multi-part TeX/LaTeX document. Alpha's LaTeX mode understands these and will automatically send your TeX application the base .tex/.ltx file when you select Typeset on any component part. Details about TeX filesets can be found in the LaTeX mode documentation; see the Help ↣ LaTeX Mode Help menu item for more information."

My problem is that I have created a TeX fileset with my main document as its basis. However, when I press command-T while a chapter file is frontmost, Alpha tris to typeset the chapter file instead of typesetting the main TeX file. What am I doing wrong?


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #238 Typesetting a TeX project from a component file

[John <uni...@us...>]

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** [tickets:#238] Typesetting a TeX project from a component file**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Fri Aug 14, 2020 09:13 AM UTC by John
**Last Updated:** Fri Aug 14, 2020 09:13 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


I don't recall when this worked, but I know it did in Alpha 8. The Fileset Menu Help information seems to indicated that it should still work:

"Tex: Make a fileset of all parts of a multi-part TeX/LaTeX document. Alpha's LaTeX mode understands these and will automatically send your TeX application the base .tex/.ltx file when you select Typeset on any component part. Details about TeX filesets can be found in the LaTeX mode documentation; see the Help ↣ LaTeX Mode Help menu item for more information."

My problem is that I have created a TeX fileset with my main document as its basis. However, when I press command-T while a chapter file is frontmost, Alpha tris to typeset the chapter file instead of typesetting the main TeX file. What am I doing wrong?


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #237 Adapt the size of the selected region when a search-and-replace reduce it

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

Hi Sylvain,
thanks for reporting. I'll fix this, it should not be difficult.


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** [tickets:#237] Adapt the size of the selected region when a search-and-replace reduce it**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:22 PM UTC by Sylvain Loiseau
**Last Updated:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:22 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Suppose the following document, with six "\n\n" patterns:

x

x

x

z

z

z

And  suppose the six first lines (from the first "x" to the line before the first "z") selected. If I run "Search and replace", check "Only in selection", and replace "\n\n" by "\n", I reduce the number of lines in the region. However, the region selected by Alpha keep its previous size, and then now encompass lines with "z". This prevent me from applying a succession of string replacements that can change the region size. Maybe it's possible to have the replacement function track the number of lines added (or removed), and change the region size accordingly? Maybe it's not easy...

All the best,
Sylvain



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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #235 spellchecker

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: open --> closed



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** [tickets:#235] spellchecker**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Tue Jul 14, 2020 05:50 PM UTC by Geir Ellingsrud
**Last Updated:** Tue Jul 14, 2020 05:50 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Spellchecker does not work properly. It finds misprints but does not show suggestions


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #236 spellchecker

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: open --> closed



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** [tickets:#236] spellchecker**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Tue Jul 14, 2020 05:50 PM UTC by Geir Ellingsrud
**Last Updated:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 04:09 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Spellchecker does not work properly. It finds misprints but does not show suggestions


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #236 spellchecker

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

No worry. It also happens that there are no guesses for a particular word and a given language.

So I'm closing this bug now. 


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** [tickets:#236] spellchecker**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Tue Jul 14, 2020 05:50 PM UTC by Geir Ellingsrud
**Last Updated:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:10 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Spellchecker does not work properly. It finds misprints but does not show suggestions


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #237 Adapt the size of the selected region when a search-and-replace reduce it

[Sylvain L. <syl...@us...>]

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** [tickets:#237] Adapt the size of the selected region when a search-and-replace reduce it**

**Status:** open
**Created:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:22 PM UTC by Sylvain Loiseau
**Last Updated:** Wed Jul 15, 2020 12:22 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Suppose the following document, with six "\n\n" patterns:

x

x

x

z

z

z

And  suppose the six first lines (from the first "x" to the line before the first "z") selected. If I run "Search and replace", check "Only in selection", and replace "\n\n" by "\n", I reduce the number of lines in the region. However, the region selected by Alpha keep its previous size, and then now encompass lines with "z". This prevent me from applying a succession of string replacements that can change the region size. Maybe it's possible to have the replacement function track the number of lines added (or removed), and change the region size accordingly? Maybe it's not easy...

All the best,
Sylvain



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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha files

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi Joachim,

I think both actions you are trying won’t help you to achieve what you want:
- ‘Record Window State’ just records, as you can see, the following parameters: break-in and wrapping setting, encoding, font, tab size, selection (or current position) and page geometry. 
- the Alpha creator is a legacy but I’m pretty sure that the Finder ignores it completely.

I think the solution, to make Alpha the default application to open text files, is to select a text file (any text file) in the Finder, press cmd-I to open the Finder’s information window, then open the 'Open with’ section and select Alpha in the popup menu, then click on Modify All.


I’m glad you are satisfied with Alpha 9.1.3. BTW, I have great news concerning the next version Alpha 9.1.4: Alpha now has its own PDF viewers so that any PDF file (in particular those produced for instance by pdflatex) can be opened/visualized directly in Alpha AND there is synchronisation between the latex file and the pdf viewer. It works in both directions : from tex to pdf and from pdf to tex ! Just option-click somewhere in the pdf view and Alpha takes you to the corresponding location in the latex source. All within Alpha ! Alpha 9.1.4 has new PDFView and ThumbnailView views (to be used with the [view] command) with nice editing capacities (selection, scrolling, goto, etc.) and a new core command called [synctex] to manage the synchronisation. I’ll release a preview devbuild shortly so that everyone can test these new features (but at the moment I’m on vacation in the countryside with a very poor internet connection).

Cheers,
Bernard

> Le 14 juil. 2020 à 10:41, Joachim Kock <ko...@ma...> a écrit :
> 
> Dear Bernard,
> 
> I am really happy with the new Alpha (9.1.3).
> Thanks so much for all your work.
> 
> I have a question:
> 
> I would like to be able save a file in Alpha (without
> file extension), and then have Alpha open it when
> I double-click it in the Finder.
> 
> I have tried the following: in the 'I' popup, select
> 'Record Window State' and 'Set Alpha as creator'.
> The first problem is that any subsequent 'Save' action
> will erase this second choice -- at least that's how
> it looks in the popup menu.
> 
> In any case, it does not help: when I double-click the
> file in the Finder, TextEdit opens instead of Alpha :-(
> 
> I would also like to ask if there is any way to set a
> preference flag in Alpha to force 'Record Window State'
> and 'Set Alpha as creator' automatically always?
> 
> In the old days, this stuff would be in the resource
> fork. Nowadays I assume it should be in xattributes...?
> Here is what I see
> 
> % xattr myfile
> com.apple.FinderInfo
> com.apple.TextEncoding
> com.apple.lastuseddate#PS
> com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags
> com.dropbox.attrs
> net.sf.alpha.break
> net.sf.alpha.enc
> net.sf.alpha.font
> net.sf.alpha.geo
> net.sf.alpha.sel
> net.sf.alpha.tab
> net.sf.alpha.wrap
> % xattr -p com.apple.FinderInfo myfile
> 54 45 58 54 41 4C 46 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> xattr -p com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags myfile
> 62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A0 08 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09
> 
> I don't know what all hex stuff means, or
> if it is related to the issue at all.
> 
> (I am well aware that all this might really be an
> OSX problem (I am reporting from 10.15), not an
> Alpha problem, but if you have an idea of how to
> solve it nevertheless, I would be very grateful.)
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joachim.
> 
> 
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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha files

[Joachim K. <ko...@ma...>]

Dear Bernard,

I am really happy with the new Alpha (9.1.3).
Thanks so much for all your work.

I have a question:

I would like to be able save a file in Alpha (without
file extension), and then have Alpha open it when
I double-click it in the Finder.

I have tried the following: in the 'I' popup, select
'Record Window State' and 'Set Alpha as creator'.
The first problem is that any subsequent 'Save' action
will erase this second choice -- at least that's how
it looks in the popup menu.

In any case, it does not help: when I double-click the
file in the Finder, TextEdit opens instead of Alpha :-(

I would also like to ask if there is any way to set a
preference flag in Alpha to force 'Record Window State'
and 'Set Alpha as creator' automatically always?

In the old days, this stuff would be in the resource
fork. Nowadays I assume it should be in xattributes...?
Here is what I see

% xattr myfile
com.apple.FinderInfo
com.apple.TextEncoding
com.apple.lastuseddate#PS
com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags
com.dropbox.attrs
net.sf.alpha.break
net.sf.alpha.enc
net.sf.alpha.font
net.sf.alpha.geo
net.sf.alpha.sel
net.sf.alpha.tab
net.sf.alpha.wrap
% xattr -p com.apple.FinderInfo myfile
54 45 58 54 41 4C 46 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
xattr -p com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags myfile
62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 A0 08 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09

I don't know what all hex stuff means, or
if it is related to the issue at all.

(I am well aware that all this might really be an
OSX problem (I am reporting from 10.15), not an
Alpha problem, but if you have an idea of how to
solve it nevertheless, I would be very grateful.)

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,
Joachim.

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.1.3 (Haedus)

[Fischlin A. <and...@en...>]

Cher Bernard,

Merci beaucoup!

Regards,
Andreas


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On 30/06/2020, at 08:20, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...<mailto:bde...@or...>> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.1.3 ("Haedus<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina).

All versions of Alpha are named after a star. So, for this new release, meet Haedus<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>, which is η Aurigae, the η star of the Auriga constellation.

Beware: the Maverick (10.9) and Yosemite (10.10) versions of OS X are no longer supported. The latest version of Alpha running on these two systems is 9.0.3.

See at the end of this message, the main changes contained in this new release.

Please, read the release notes which will be displayed the first time you launch Alpha and can be accessed later from the Help ↣ Developer Help menu.

Here is the URL to download the disk image:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.1.3/Alpha_9.1.3.dmg.zip/download (32.99M)

The MD5 checksum is: ec9189af62c8313b786ed86ee166923f
The SHA1 checksum is: 6b1ca42ae0cd27deee00af4f258afa85040aa1aa
The RMD160 checksum is: ede99bef0bcdd0af4524f0f19295cc51ae70cf3f
The SHA256 checksum is: 252e2e652e4adaa6efeea2bfc85e2a693fb6172292b87a61483d4491410789f2

If you find problems with the application, don't hesitate to post bug reports. They are essential to keep track of the deficiencies. See Alpha's Bug Tracker<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/>.

Thank you for using Alpha.
Cheers,
Bernard
Changes from previous version

  *   New core command [contactRef]<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/contactRef.html> for interacting with the OS X AddressBook.
  *   Revision of the identities<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/IdentitiesHelp.html> package.
  *   More symbols in the Arrows palette.
  *   New options -bgcolor, -cursor and -tip for the [insertEscapes]<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/insertEscapes.html>, [removeEscapes]<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/removeEscapes.html> and [getEscapes]<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/getEscapes.html> commands.
  *   New dynamic commands associated with each TextView<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_textview> view for manipulating the content of the text. See the $editorToken command<https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/textEditor.html> help page.

The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):

  *   Ticket #234: TeX Synchronization with Skim is broken<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/234/>

The following tickets have been closed:

  *   Ticket #225: 'Prefs Search' button broken in top-level Prefs Dashboard<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/225/>
  *   Ticket #226: Replace Alll on Very Large File Executes Save<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/226/>
  *   Ticket #227: Includes 'Update Folder...' in HTML Mode possibly buggy<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/227/>
  *   Ticket #228: Alpha Crashes on Launch With Multiple Users<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/228/>
  *   Ticket #229: Selected text is invisible, depending on highlighting settings in System Preferences<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/229/>
  *   Ticket #230: Search & Replace: Patterns menu in updates only after restart <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/230/>
  *   Ticket #231: Automatic Line Breaking global preference not honoured<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/231/>
  *   Ticket #233: tab after \\label\{\}• in TeX mode<https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/233/>

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[Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.1.3 (Haedus)

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.1.3 ("Haedus <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina). 
  
All versions of Alpha are named after a star. So, for this new release, meet Haedus <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>, which is η Aurigae, the η star of the Auriga constellation. 

Beware: the Maverick (10.9) and Yosemite (10.10) versions of OS X are no longer supported. The latest version of Alpha running on these two systems is 9.0.3. 

See at the end of this message, the main changes contained in this new release. 

Please, read the release notes which will be displayed the first time you launch Alpha and can be accessed later from the Help ↣ Developer Help menu. 

Here is the URL to download the disk image: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.1.3/Alpha_9.1.3.dmg.zip/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.1.3/Alpha_9.1.3.dmg.zip/download> (32.99M) 

The MD5 checksum is: ec9189af62c8313b786ed86ee166923f 
The SHA1 checksum is: 6b1ca42ae0cd27deee00af4f258afa85040aa1aa 
The RMD160 checksum is: ede99bef0bcdd0af4524f0f19295cc51ae70cf3f 
The SHA256 checksum is: 252e2e652e4adaa6efeea2bfc85e2a693fb6172292b87a61483d4491410789f2 

If you find problems with the application, don't hesitate to post bug reports. They are essential to keep track of the deficiencies. See Alpha's Bug Tracker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/>. 

Thank you for using Alpha. 
Cheers, 
Bernard
 <>Changes from previous version

New core command [contactRef] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/contactRef.html> for interacting with the OS X AddressBook.
Revision of the identities <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/IdentitiesHelp.html> package.
More symbols in the Arrows palette.
New options -bgcolor, -cursor and -tip for the [insertEscapes] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/insertEscapes.html>, [removeEscapes] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/removeEscapes.html> and [getEscapes] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/getEscapes.html> commands.
New dynamic commands associated with each TextView <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_textview> view for manipulating the content of the text. See the $editorToken command <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/textEditor.html> help page.
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #234: TeX Synchronization with Skim is broken <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/234/>The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #225: 'Prefs Search' button broken in top-level Prefs Dashboard <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/225/>
Ticket #226: Replace Alll on Very Large File Executes Save <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/226/>
Ticket #227: Includes 'Update Folder...' in HTML Mode possibly buggy <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/227/>
Ticket #228: Alpha Crashes on Launch With Multiple Users <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/228/>
Ticket #229: Selected text is invisible, depending on highlighting settings in System Preferences <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/229/>
Ticket #230: Search & Replace: Patterns menu in updates only after restart <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/230/>
Ticket #231: Automatic Line Breaking global preference not honoured <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/231/>
Ticket #233: tab after \\label\{\}• in TeX mode <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/233/>

[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #225 "Prefs Search" button broken in top-level Prefs Dashboard

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: fixed --> closed
- **Version**: 9.0 --> 9.1.2



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** [tickets:#225] "Prefs Search" button broken in top-level Prefs Dashboard**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Wed Feb 05, 2020 11:28 PM UTC by C Upright
**Last Updated:** Thu Feb 06, 2020 06:12 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


In the primary "Alpha Preferences : Dashboard" dialog, the "Prefs Search ..." button throws an error alert message claiming that "prefs::searchPrefs" is an invalid command name. I think the wrong proc is referenced in [prefs::dialogs::dashboard]. Replacing this line in "prefsDialogs.tcl"

	hi::addButtons $root [list "Prefs Search…"] prefs::searchProc "l" 0 \

with this

	hi::addButtons $root [list "Prefs Search…"] prefs::dialogs::prefsSearchProc "l" 0 \

seems to fix it. I found no other references to [prefs::searchProc] in AlphaTcl.


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #226 Replace Alll on Very Large File Executes Save

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: fixed --> closed
- **Version**: 9.0 --> 9.1.2



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** [tickets:#226] Replace Alll on Very Large File Executes Save**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Wed Apr 01, 2020 12:46 PM UTC by John
**Last Updated:** Tue May 05, 2020 05:08 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


I have a very large XML document, about 6.5 MB, extracted from a corruped Word document. Performing a moderately complex RegEx search and replace takes a very long time. That is unsurprising, but it also performs a save before it completes the Replace All operation. This is highly annoying because Undo does not work after the document is saved. Therefore there is no way to restore the unedited document.

  After noticing this problem, I created a new document and filled it with many paragraphs of the same text (about 100,000 lines). Long-running Replace All operations still performed the save. 

  Another problem I noticed with the first document is that the Replace All operation often failed silently and simply deleted all but the first 25,000 lines or so. Of course, this deletion was also saved to disk. I have not been able to replicate this issue with the new document.


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #227 Includes "Update Folder..." in HTML Mode possibly buggy

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: fixed --> closed
- **Version**: 9.0 --> 9.1.2



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** [tickets:#227] Includes "Update Folder..."  in HTML Mode possibly buggy**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Sun Apr 05, 2020 08:07 AM UTC by Christoph Schiller
**Last Updated:** Sat May 30, 2020 09:31 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


In Alpha 9.1.1, in HTML mode on OSX 10.14.6, there is, in the top menu, an icon that looks like a plate with a fork (just before "Help")
In that menu, there is a "Includes" line with a submenu.

The "Update window" works well, it substitutes the code between two INCLUDE tags.

The "Update folder..." has no effect. Maybe I use it wrongly (but there is no indication in the manual or in the mailing list).
I would expect it to update all html files in the selected folder - but my Alpha only says: 
"Folder updated successfully" (after asking whether to update subfolders).
However, my Aplpha does not update any file at all, whatever I answer.

Is this a bug or am I making a  mistake?




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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #229 Selected text is invisible, depending on highlighting settings in System Preferences

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: fixed --> closed
- **Version**: 9.0 --> 9.1.2



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** [tickets:#229] Selected text is invisible, depending on highlighting settings in System Preferences**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Thu Apr 30, 2020 09:22 AM UTC by jwq
**Last Updated:** Tue May 05, 2020 10:34 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


macOS 10.14 & 10.15

If the Highlight colour, set in System Preferences →  General, is `Graphite` then the highlighting Alpha uses when text is selected is white, the text is white and they are invisible on the default white background. Selecting text effectively makes it invisible in the GUI. Chosing `Blue` as the highlight colour works around this bug. Possibly relevant: Dark mode is active. Reproduced on two different machines running different versions of macOS.


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #230 Search & Replace: Patterns menu in updates only after restart

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: fixed --> closed
- **Version**: 9.0 --> 9.1.2



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** [tickets:#230] Search & Replace: Patterns menu in  updates only after restart **

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Sat May 02, 2020 05:23 AM UTC by jwq
**Last Updated:** Sun May 03, 2020 10:09 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


As of the 9.1.1 release, the Search & Replace  dialog Patterns popup menu is not updated with the most recent search and replace strings after a search has been executed. Previous versions updated the Patterns popup menu immediately which is, I believe, the intended behaviour. As of 9.1.1 this menu is only updated after Alpha has been restarted.

Probably related to the "Complete overhaul of the Supersearch package" mentioned in the release notes, although drawking this connection is unlikely to help track down and fix the bug.


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[Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #231 Automatic Line Breaking global preference not honoured

[Bernard D. <bde...@us...>]

- **status**: fixed --> closed
- **Version**: 9.0 --> 9.1.2



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** [tickets:#231] Automatic Line Breaking global preference not honoured**

**Status:** closed
**Created:** Sat May 02, 2020 05:45 AM UTC by jwq
**Last Updated:** Wed May 27, 2020 05:37 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


Alpha does not honour the "Line Break" setting in the "Alpha Preferences : Text" dialog, which appears to be a global dialog. It's the dialog that prefs search finds when searching for "breaking" but it is also part of the global preferences dialog, under the text menu. Even if this is set to "No Line Breaking" new windows open in text mode with the default "Automatic Line Breaking".  Automatic Line Breaking has to be disabled in the Mode preferences "Alpha Preferences : "Text" Mode". This was difficult to find, in large part because prefs search does not show the Text Mode preference, only the global preference, for Line Break. This has caused me a fair bit of frustration over a long period of time - which is why I think this is a bug that needs to be fixed.


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