Alpha Developer Build 9.1.1d1 (8911)

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

Hi all,

I have uploaded a new developer build of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.1.1d1 ("Almach_d1") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater. 

It is considered as a Release Candidate for version 9.1.1. It is meant for developers and beta testers. If you are interested, you can test it to check the recent changes and verify the recent fixes.

Disclaimer: it 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 1846 in the Subversion repository at SourceForge. 

Version:	9.1.1d1 (devel)
Date:	2019-12-12
Build:	8911
Revision:	1846

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> (36.73M) 

Checksums: 
MD5:	d544b8b31c89b634430cd088e5d77e56
SHA1:	e2ede4b36527e9e59557edca958344395d549066
RMD160:	43eb66c31cfdc8694a3c8b7d16200790eb43e4c2
SHA256:	8c78a79ae68b899712b1ceee20c8ce4e269a8859bd15117d3744d2b63e50a9bf


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 package Lexers Menu <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/LexersMenuHelp.html> to manage and apply lexical analyzers (aka lexers). The lexers can be used to process a selection or a document window.
New core command [scanFile] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/scanFile.html> to scan a file for a regular expression.
New core command [countLines] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/countLines.html> to count the number of lines contained in a string (regardless of the end of line symbols that are used).
New options Line Anchors and Dot Matches All in search and hyperSearch dialogs.
Complete overhaul of the Supersearch <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/SupersearchHelp.html> package.
Improved performance of the Hypersearch <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/HypersearchHelp.html> package based on the new [scanFile] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/scanFile.html> command.
New technical option -preserve in the [shellExec] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/shellExec.html> core command to prevent Unicode decomposition of the arguments.
Complete overhaul of the Filters Menu <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/FiltersMenuHelp.html> and the Columns Manipulation <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/ColumnsManipulationHelp.html> packages.
The Automatic Line Breaking property is now saved when the window state is recorded.
Upgraded Tcl framework to version 8.6.10 (released 2019-11-21). Upgraded Tcllib extension to version 1.20 (released 2019-12-01).
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #221: Search in Filesets is broken if regexp contains \\n <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/221/>
Ticket #222: Menu item highlighting broken in macOS Catalina <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/222/>
Ticket #223: accented chars in path names <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/223/>
Ticket #224: Quicksearch can't find -west <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/224/>The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #217: HTML and CSS Mode Help uses yellow font towards the end. <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/217/>
Ticket #218: LASTMODIFIED <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/218/>
Ticket #219: focus shifts to end of line on indent <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/219/>
Ticket #220: saveHook error with multiple untitled documents <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/220/>