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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Bernard

[Jonathan G. <jg...@hi...>]

Sylvain -

Thank you very much for sharing this sad news. Bernard will be sorely missed. I greatly enjoyed the time I spent with Bernard in the "Alpha Cabal". I have fond memories of a spectacular lunch with him and Dominique on a visit to Paris many years ago.

Bernard has been solely responsible for Alpha’s core development for many years. AlphaCocoa, in particular, is entirely his creation. I’m not sure that anybody that was not intimately familiar with the earlier incarnations of the Alpha source code can appreciate how monumental his effort was.

Although I have not been active in Alpha development for a very long time, Bernard did graciously grant me admin rights to AlphaCocoa on SourceForge. If anybody in the community is interested in picking up maintenance of the project, I will be happy to facilitate.

- Jon

> On Oct 7, 2023, at 6:25 AM, Sylvain Loiseau <syl...@un...> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I’m very sad to have to inform you that Bernard passed away some month ago, after a long illness. Despite his great discretion and modesty, we know how hard he worked and how willing he was to help everyone with the projects he was working on.
> 
> Thanks to his very specific capabilities, he has made AlphaCocoa a mature software in just a few years. I'm afraid it won't be easy to continue updating Alpha without him. I hope that a discussion will emerge and that competent people will be able to maintain Alpha.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Bernard

[Michel T. <mt...@ob...>]

Dear Sylvain,

Thank you very much for your message. I'm very sorry to hear this sad news. I was just discovering the Cocoa version of Alpha, admiring how well designed and well done Bernard's code is. May he be thanked for this exemplary work.
I really hope someone can continue this work.

Best regards,
Michel Tallon

On 07/10/2023 12:25, Sylvain Loiseau wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I’m very sad to have to inform you that Bernard passed away some month ago, after a long illness. Despite his great discretion and modesty, we know how hard he worked and how willing he was to help everyone with the projects he was working on.
> 
> Thanks to his very specific capabilities, he has made AlphaCocoa a mature software in just a few years. I'm afraid it won't be easy to continue updating Alpha without him. I hope that a discussion will emerge and that competent people will be able to maintain Alpha.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> AlphaCocoa-devel mailing list
> Alp...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphacocoa-devel
--
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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Bernard

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

Dear Sylvain,

thank you so much for your note, it is said to hear this.

Alpha is indeed a fantastic package, the only one that can do proper email formatting among many other things. I really hope someone can pick up the ball.

greetings, el

--
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 7, 2023 at 12:44 +0200, Sylvain Loiseau <syl...@un...>, wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I’m very sad to have to inform you that Bernard passed away some month ago, after a long illness. Despite his great discretion and modesty, we know how hard he worked and how willing he was to help everyone with the projects he was working on.
>
> Thanks to his very specific capabilities, he has made AlphaCocoa a mature software in just a few years. I'm afraid it won't be easy to continue updating Alpha without him. I hope that a discussion will emerge and that competent people will be able to maintain Alpha.
>
> Best regards,
> Sylvain
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AlphaCocoa-devel mailing list
> Alp...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphacocoa-devel

List / Response

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

Is this list still active?

el

On 26/12/2022 20:08, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> Bernard,
> 
> I noticed that since a recent update Alpha coult not find Rstudio any
> longer. As I had also noticed that RStudio wasn't the default App for
> *.R any longer I ran
> 
>     osascript -e 'id of app "RStudio"'
> 
> and since I don't know how/where to put this into ~/Library I patched
> /Applications/Alpha.app/Contents/Resources/Libraries/AlphaTcl/Tcl/SystemCode/CorePackages/appIDs.tcl:
> 
>     ***
> /Applications/Alpha.app/Contents/Resources/Libraries/AlphaTcl/Tcl/SystemCode/CorePackages/appIDs.tcl    2022-12-26 18:27:45.000000000 +0200
>     --- appIDs.tcl.old    2022-12-26 18:27:04.000000000 +0200
>     ***************
>     *** 335,342 ****
>       app::registerID PDFView "net.sourceforge.pdfview" pdf
>       app::registerID Skim "net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim" pdf
>     
>     ! #app::registerID R "org.R-project.R" r
>     ! #app::registerID RStudio "org.rstudio.RStudio" r
>     ! app::registerID R "com.rstudio.desktop" r
>     ! app::registerID RStudio "com.rstudio.desktop" r
>     
>     --- 335,340 ----
>       app::registerID PDFView "net.sourceforge.pdfview" pdf
>       app::registerID Skim "net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim" pdf
>     
>     ! app::registerID R "org.R-project.R" r
>     ! app::registerID RStudio "org.rstudio.RStudio" r
>   All the best for the silly season by the way.
> 
> greetings, el    
>  
> 

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RStudio's decriptor has changed

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

Bernard,

I noticed that since a recent update Alpha coult not find Rstudio any
longer. As I had also noticed that RStudio wasn't the default App for
*.R any longer I ran

	osascript -e 'id of app "RStudio"'

and since I don't know how/where to put this into ~/Library I patched
/Applications/Alpha.app/Contents/Resources/Libraries/AlphaTcl/Tcl/SystemCode/CorePackages/appIDs.tcl:

	*** /Applications/Alpha.app/Contents/Resources/Libraries/AlphaTcl/Tcl/SystemCode/CorePackages/appIDs.tcl	2022-12-26 18:27:45.000000000 +0200
	--- appIDs.tcl.old	2022-12-26 18:27:04.000000000 +0200
	***************
	*** 335,342 ****
	  app::registerID PDFView "net.sourceforge.pdfview" pdf
	  app::registerID Skim "net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim" pdf
	
	! #app::registerID R "org.R-project.R" r
	! #app::registerID RStudio "org.rstudio.RStudio" r
	! app::registerID R "com.rstudio.desktop" r
	! app::registerID RStudio "com.rstudio.desktop" r
	
	--- 335,340 ----
	  app::registerID PDFView "net.sourceforge.pdfview" pdf
	  app::registerID Skim "net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim" pdf
	
	! app::registerID R "org.R-project.R" r
	! app::registerID RStudio "org.rstudio.RStudio" r
   
All the best for the silly season by the way.

greetings, el 	
  

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What Happened to Embrace?

[John M. <joh...@ed...>]

Hi,
   I've been using Alpha for many years and am still very happy with it. However, i have not been using it as much as I have in the past, so I don't know when this problem started. For whatever reason, I can no longer fire Embrace with Control B. When I hit that shortcut, nothing happens.

   I know that Embrace is still working because I have some TeX-specific bindings that use Embrace to put things in math mode. Those bindings still work.

   Does anyone have an idea of how I can restore Control B? Should I now be using a different shortcut? The help files seem to say the shortcut is still Control B.

   I'm using Alpha 9.2.3 on macOS 12.6 on a 2019 MacBook Pro.

Best,
John

Thunderbird External Editor

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

Bernard,

I have become aware of

	https://github.com/Frederick888/external-editor-revived

which works on both Intel and M1, even though with Rosetta (for
the time being :-)-O), so I can finally write may emails without
using crutches (temp files).

greetings, el

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HOME key and END key hang Alpha (spinning wheel)

[Daniel F. <dfr...@gm...>]

Could anyone advise what might be wrong with my Alpha setup?

The larger the text file, the slower the HOME and END keys act.

In a very large text file, HOME or END will hang Alpha (spinning wheel).

ESC< and ESC> work fine no matter the size of the file.

Alpha 9.2.3
OS X 10.14.3 Mohave

no customization

In menu Alpha/Global Setup/Keyboard Shortcuts/Special Keys...
'Describe shortcut' gives:
       ESC< = beginningOfBuffer

       ESC> = endOfBuffer

       HOME = beginningOfBuffer
              findPrevious

       END  = endOfBuffer
              copyRegion

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.3 (Suhail)

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

Bernard,

I can not recall whether this has been raised before, is there a native
M1 version of Alpha (for Monterey)?  My Airbook M1 BtO has arrived :-)-O

el

On 21/05/2021 15:34, bde...@or... wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha.  This
> is Alpha 9.2.3 ("Suhail
> <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X
> 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina,
> Big Sur).
[...]

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Announcement & Call for Speakers (The SQLite & Tcl Conf 2021)

[<con...@tc...>]

Hello alphatcl-users, fyi ...

# The SQLite & Tcl Conference

__Wednesday, November 17, 2021__

The 2nd annual SQLite & Tcl virtual conference will be held on Wednesday, November 17.
The virtual event will feature a combination of curated talks and work in progress talks (WIPs).

[Registration is open](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sqlite-tcl-conference-st-2021-registration-168185004877)!

Please visit the [SQLite & TCL conference](https://conf.tcl-lang.org/) home page to stay informed.

# Call for Speakers

We've made it easier to contribute by asking for shorter, less formal
talks rather than requiring formal papers.

  - Have you done interesting work that you would like to share?

  - How about a cool idea that's not yet baked or just in the
    prototype stage but seems like something others would be
    interested in? We are particularly interested in new ideas, to
    hear about novel solutions to problems you've faced, or to see
    your work in progress.

## To submit your talk:

Please visit the [call for speakers page](https://conf.tcl-lang.org/callforspeakers/)
for instructions.

As a token of our appreciation, each speaker will be gifted with a
video conferencing light kit to use while presenting.

The call for speakers for S&T 2021 ends on __October 4, 2021 at 11:59 PM CT__.

__Important dates:__

  - October 4 - Call for speakers for S&T 2021 ends at 11:59 PM CT

  - October 8 - We will start notifying speakers with their status of
    their submission and scheduled talk.

  - October 18 - Agenda for S&T 2021 Announced

  - November 17 - S&T 2021 held digitally online  

Alpha Release 9.2.3 (Suhail)

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

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.2.3 ("Suhail <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur). 

All versions of Alpha are named after a star. So, for this new release, meet Suhail <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>, which is λ Velorum, the λ star of the Vela 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/9.2.3/Alpha_9.2.3.dmg.zip/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.2.3/Alpha_9.2.3.dmg.zip/download> (32.67M) 

The MD5 checksum is: cc06bc62b3daff7b58332cd78df58f35 
The SHA1 checksum is: fb87dc11b42cc8edf55dbe0d73214b32536bceb1 
The RMD160 checksum is: 4c8f3f5486589731ba67619b3e0f09e193de938e 
The SHA256 checksum is: f3445a2ecb23cf1f12811d6003890f091e04334cc92cb4f00140065359c7e91a 

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

The Get Char Codes command now displays its results in a popover. Double-click in the popover or press Return to copy the info to the pasteboard.
New option -selected for TextField views. It lets you get or set the range of selected characters in a currently active text field.
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #240: Encoding <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/240/>
Ticket #246: Freeze at (26, 70) <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/246/>
Ticket #248: Problems with the spellchecker of Alpha 9.2.2 in TeX Mode for french <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/248/>
Ticket #249: Freeze when using command+I <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/249/>
Ticket #250: RemReminder on ticket #248 : Problems with the spellchecker of Alpha 9.2.2 in TeX Mode for french <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/250/>
Ticket #252: S+/R mode - Process Current File (Cmd^T) fails <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/252/>The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #130: problem with filename in .tab <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/130/>
Ticket #242: Diff missing variable error when trying to run on Mac Catalina <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/242/>
Ticket #243: Problems Loading Modes: Diff <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/243/>
Ticket #244: Marking in sh mode fails completely or is useless <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/244/>
Ticket #245: Dynamical Menus under MacOS Big Sur <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/245/>

Alpha v. Keyboard Maestro

[David C. <da...@pa...>]

I have been experiencing an issue that I’m not entirely clear on how to diagnose.

I only recently acquired a new Mac with Big Sur installed, replacing a 12-year old Mac Pro.  For many years I had relied on QuicKeys for many macro tasks.  As QuicKeys is long dead, I have returned after many years to Keyboard Maestro, which I had relied on prior to making the move to QuicKeys.  

One set of personal KM macros I use frequently wrap text on the clipboard in HTML/CSS tags.  For example, one macro takes a URL on the clipboard and turns it into a list item:

http://url.org <http://url.org/>     --->    <LI><A HREF=“http://url.org <http://url.org/>“></A>

in a super-simple manner:

Insert text  <LI><A HREF=“
Paste from the clipboard
Insert text  “></A>

This works fine in other text editors I sometimes use (including TextEdit and BBEdit), but in Alpha quite frequently (25-35% of the time) the inserted text is slightly garbled, with characters in the inserted text out of order from what’s specified in the macro, or occasionally just missing.  For example, instead of "<LI><A HREF=“ what will appear is "<LI<>A HREF=“ or "<LI<A HREF=“ or "<LI<>A HREF=“ and similarly “></A> might become "“></>A” or ““<>/A>” or whatever.  It’s not consistent, and I can invoke the same macro 20 times in a row and get 15 instances that are what they’re supposed to be and another 5 randomly mixed in with characters swapped around,, or occasionally dropped.

I’m posting to this list because as noted I DON’T see this behavior when I invoke the same macro in other editors.  I’m guessing it’s something to do with the inserted text being inserted too quickly, or something of that nature?

I tried to fool around with pauses in the macro and so forth, to no avail.  I’m also posting to the Keyboard Maestro forums, but thought I would put this out there here as well to see if anyone had any ideas I could try from the Alpha side of things.

Thanks,
David Craig

PS.  I had an equivalent QuicKeys macro that I used with Alpha for many years with no issues … but that was on a different machine, several operating systems behind where we are now, and an older version of Alpha.  Not to mention with different macro software...


<http://www.panix.com/~dac/>

Re: /usr/local/bin/R and Saiph

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

Hi Eberhard,

I can’t reproduce this. I just opened an R file from the Finder using Open With  and got no such message.
Normally you would see this message ("Can't find app with id etc. ») only when you try to process the file from Alpha using « Process Current File » or « Process Selection » from Alpha’s S+/R menu.

In this S+/R menu, there is a command « Set Tools… ». This is the command you should use to set the command line R. Currently on my machine it is set to /usr/local/bin/R (Alpha tries to detect this automatically).
Concerning the GUI app (R.app or RStudio.app), you can also set this in the "Mode Options" submenu of the S+/R menu.

Does this answer your questions or did I miss something ?

Cheers,
Bernard



> Le 6 mars 2021 à 19:24, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> if I open a file whatever.R either with alphac or "open with" I get a
> small error window saying
> 
> 	Can't find app with id 'org.R-project.R'
> 
> and telling me to change my Helper Applications.
> 
> In the Global Setup I have set the R helper application to be located
> manually to
> 
> 	/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/bin/R
> 
> which is where homebrew put this version (with a symlink to
> /usr/local/bin/R).
> 
> I use the command line version of R due to the fact that I use RStudio
> if I need a GUI.
> 
> Can you or someone duplicate this, and if so, come up with a solution,
> please?  While this is most certainly not time critical, would also
> appreciate if this were then made to also work on the symlink
> (/usr/local/bin/R) so it would survive homebrew updates.
> 
> greetings, el
> 
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> 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply
> 
> 
> 
> 
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/usr/local/bin/R and Saiph

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

Bernard,

if I open a file whatever.R either with alphac or "open with" I get a
small error window saying

	Can't find app with id 'org.R-project.R'

and telling me to change my Helper Applications.

In the Global Setup I have set the R helper application to be located
manually to

	/usr/local/Cellar/r/4.0.4/bin/R

which is where homebrew put this version (with a symlink to
/usr/local/bin/R).

I use the command line version of R due to the fact that I use RStudio
if I need a GUI.

Can you or someone duplicate this, and if so, come up with a solution,
please?  While this is most certainly not time critical, would also
appreciate if this were then made to also work on the symlink
(/usr/local/bin/R) so it would survive homebrew updates.

greetings, el

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el...@li... / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell)
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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

[<el...@li...>]

Bernard,

The mode below shows up as MAIL in the buffer (M menu) but reformatting of comments
‘>’ does not work.

Not to worry, the plain text mode (default) does the trick.

greetings, el

—
Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone
On 3 Mar 2021, 15:11 +0200, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...>, wrote:
> Eberhard,
>
> what does not work as expected ? Maybe I did not understand what you expect exactly ? Did you restart Alpha after putting
> set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
> in the prefs.tcl file ? This is necessary because this file is read at startup.
>
> Bernard
>
>
> > Le 3 mars 2021 à 13:27, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> >
> > Bernard,
> >
> > I have downloaded Saiph, and that does not work as expected. However If
> > I create a file in text mode it sems to work and the indentation
> > business also seems to be fixed.
> >
> > Thanks, as usual.
> >
> > greetings, el
> >
> > On 03/03/2021 13:16, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> > > Hi Eberhard,
> > >
> > > here is a possible solution (if I understand correctly what you want
> > > to achieve):
> > >
> > > 1- put the following instruction in your prefs.tcl file
> > > set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
> > >
> > > 2- create an empty file with this extension, for instance empty.mail
> > > or whatever.mail
> > >
> > > 3- then when you open this file with Alpha it is automatically in Mail
> > > mode.
> > >
> > > It should do the trick (I just tested it).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bernard
> > [...]
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
> > el...@li... / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell)
> > PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP
> > 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Alp...@li...
> > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-users

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Eberhard,

what does not work as expected ? Maybe I did not understand what you expect exactly ? Did you restart Alpha after putting
	set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
in the prefs.tcl file ? This is necessary because this file is read at startup.

Bernard


> Le 3 mars 2021 à 13:27, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> I have downloaded Saiph, and that does not work as expected.  However If
> I create a file in text mode it sems to work and the indentation
> business also seems to be fixed.
> 
> Thanks, as usual.
> 
> greetings, el
> 
> On 03/03/2021 13:16, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>> Hi Eberhard,
>> 
>> here is a possible solution (if I understand correctly what you want
>> to achieve):
>> 
>> 1- put the following instruction in your prefs.tcl file
>>    set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
>> 
>> 2- create an empty file with this extension, for instance empty.mail
>> or whatever.mail
>> 
>> 3- then when you open this file with Alpha it is automatically in Mail
>> mode.
>> 
>> It should do the trick (I just tested it).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bernard
> [...]
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse   \         /       Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 
> el...@li...             / *      |  Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell)
> PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht  \      /  If this email is signed with GPG/PGP
> 10007, Namibia           ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> AlphaTcl-users mailing list
> Alp...@li...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-users

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Bernard,

I have downloaded Saiph, and that does not work as expected.  However If
I create a file in text mode it sems to work and the indentation
business also seems to be fixed.

Thanks, as usual.

greetings, el

On 03/03/2021 13:16, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> Hi Eberhard,
> 
> here is a possible solution (if I understand correctly what you want
> to achieve):
> 
> 1- put the following instruction in your prefs.tcl file
>     set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
> 
> 2- create an empty file with this extension, for instance empty.mail
> or whatever.mail
> 
> 3- then when you open this file with Alpha it is automatically in Mail
> mode.
> 
> It should do the trick (I just tested it).
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernard
[...]

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Alpha Release 9.2.2 (Saiph)

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

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.2.2 ("Saiph <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur). 

All versions of Alpha are named after a star. So, for this new release, meet Saiph <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>, which is κ Orionis, the κ star of the Orion 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/9.2.2/Alpha_9.2.2.dmg.zip/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.2.2/Alpha_9.2.2.dmg.zip/download> (32.68M) 

The MD5 checksum is: af6c7d9fe36d417f9625259e6e7865f5 
The SHA1 checksum is: 52252380fdbfb441fa86d9a465f58efd643b2912 
The RMD160 checksum is: e4184e1fbbdfeb0ea4c0e59aa1ec98bc6e1fcb5c 
The SHA256 checksum is: a240665fa274951fa5fb76e5c048953ca037e52c5896ec042cf130ba65f46039 

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 command [urlComp] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/urlComp.html> to manipulate URLs, extract, decode, encode the elements, etc.
Addition of pull and push commands to the Git VCS menu (thanks Joachim!).
Addition of Load Current and Goto Error commands to the Git VCS menu (thanks Joachim!).
Revision of file marking and coloring in sh, bash and zsh modes.
New command [mark count] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/mark.html#cmd_mark_count>.
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #242: Diff missing variable error when trying to run on Mac Catalina <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/242/>
Ticket #243: Problems Loading Modes: Diff <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/243/>
Ticket #244: Marking in sh mode fails completely or is useless <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/244/>
Ticket #245: Dynamical Menus under MacOS Big Sur <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/245/>The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #234: TeX Synchronization with Skim is broken <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/234/>
Ticket #237: Adapt the size of the selected region when a search-and-replace reduce it <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/237/>
Ticket #239: pageHeader prints untitled instead of document title <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/239/>

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Hi Eberhard,

here is a possible solution (if I understand correctly what you want to achieve):

1- put the following instruction in your prefs.tcl file
    set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail

2- create an empty file with this extension, for instance empty.mail or whatever.mail

3- then when you open this file with Alpha it is automatically in Mail mode.

It should do the trick (I just tested it).

Cheers,
Bernard


> Le 28 févr. 2021 à 13:39, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> is there a way of creating a file which when double clicked fires
> Alpha up in Mail Mode?
> 
> On the new Thunderbird the External Editor plug-in does not work and a
> reasonable way would be to lay such an (empty) file onto the Desktop,
> double click it, copy and paste the mail content into the buffer,
> format as needed, and copy paste back to T-Bird.
> 
> Not as elegant, but should work.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> AlphaTcl-users mailing list
> Alp...@li...
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-users

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Bernard,

is there a way of creating a file which when double clicked fires
Alpha up in Mail Mode?

On the new Thunderbird the External Editor plug-in does not work and a
reasonable way would be to lay such an (empty) file onto the Desktop,
double click it, copy and paste the mail content into the buffer,
format as needed, and copy paste back to T-Bird.

Not as elegant, but should work.

Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2) Formatting issue

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

Bernard.

If you justify this paragraph you will see that (1?)  has an added space
behind it, whereas (1) does not.  Of course a plain fullstop as end of
sentence also has 2 spaces as it should, but when you put it into quotes
"."  or '.'  it has also two so I would think that this (tiny little
observation) is not a feature :-)-O

greetings, el

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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Bernard,

as always, great stuff. Thank you.

And of course the below "confused by the > character" confused it too 
:-)-O

I have always wondered, is there a way to support AlphaX, you must have 
costs for servers and stuff...

greetings, 

el

On 02/12/2020 10:55, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> Hello Eberhard,
> 
> yes this has been fixed. 
> The problem was that the proc text::isInSingleComment (which had been
> recently redefined) was confused by the > character at the end of the
> URL contained in this line.
> 
> The fix will be in 9.2.2. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernard

Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Hello Eberhard,

yes this has been fixed. 
The problem was that the proc text::isInSingleComment (which had been recently redefined) was confused by the > character at the end of the URL contained in this line.

The fix will be in 9.2.2. 

Cheers,
Bernard

> Le 2 déc. 2020 à 09:07, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> any progress on the email issue?
> 
> el
> 
> On 23/10/2020 09:41, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>> Hi Eberhard,
>> 
>> unfortunately no :-(
>> 
>> I’ll look into it now.
>> 
>> Bernard
>> 
>> 
>>> Le 23 oct. 2020 à 09:22, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> Bernard,
>>> 
>>> does it fix my email issue?
>>> 
>>> el
>>> 
>>> On 2020-10-23 08:57 , Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm pleased to announce the release of Alpha 9.2.1 ("Gianfar-2
>>>> <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11
>>>> or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina).
>>>> 
>>>> This is a minor technical update that fixes recent issues found in 9.2.
>>>> See below.
>>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
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>>> PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht  \      /  If this email is signed with GPG/PGP
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-users
> 
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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

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

Bernard,

any progress on the email issue?

el

On 23/10/2020 09:41, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> Hi Eberhard,
> 
> unfortunately no :-(
> 
> I’ll look into it now.
> 
> Bernard
> 
> 
>> Le 23 oct. 2020 à 09:22, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
>>
>> Bernard,
>>
>> does it fix my email issue?
>>
>> el
>>
>> On 2020-10-23 08:57 , Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>  I'm pleased to announce the release of Alpha 9.2.1 ("Gianfar-2
>>> <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11
>>> or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina).
>>>
>>> This is a minor technical update that fixes recent issues found in 9.2.
>>> See below.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse   \         /       Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
>> el...@li...             / *      |  Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell)
>> PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht  \      /  If this email is signed with GPG/PGP
>> 10007, Namibia           ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> AlphaTcl-users mailing list
>> Alp...@li...
>> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-users

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Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

[Eberhard W L. <el...@li...>]

take your time

el

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On 23. Oct 2020, 09:41 +0200, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@or...>, wrote:
> Hi Eberhard,
>
> unfortunately no :-(
>
> I’ll look into it now.
>
> Bernard
>
>
> > Le 23 oct. 2020 à 09:22, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> >
> > Bernard,
> >
> > does it fix my email issue?
> >
> > el
> >
> > On 2020-10-23 08:57 , Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm pleased to announce the release of Alpha 9.2.1 ("Gianfar-2
> > > <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11
> > > or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina).
> > >
> > > This is a minor technical update that fixes recent issues found in 9.2.
> > > See below.
> > >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
> > el...@li... / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell)
> > PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP
> > 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > AlphaTcl-users mailing list
> > Alp...@li...
> > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-users