[Ecb-list] New beta version of ECB for pretesting by the ECB-users

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

Hi guys!

here is the first ECB betaversion, which has a lot of changes since =
last official version 1.32:
This is the first version which is a minor-mode with own menu and =
keymap and which
does not longer support a durable compilation.window but much better =
temp-buffer and
compilation-buffer display.

Please read the HISTORY- README and RELEASE_NOTES files!

This version is only contained within this mail or downloadable via CVS =
from the ECBsite.

PLease try it out and give me feedback if this is the way ECB should =
go!!

Thank you,
Klaus

Version 1.40beat1:
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- Some important changes in the ECB-layout:
  + The option 'ecb-compile-window-height' is gone. This means you can =
not
    longer define a durable separate compilation-window at the bottom =
of the
    ECB-frame.
  + Related options like 'ecb-compile-window-temporally-enlarge' and
    'ecb-select-compile-window' are also gone because now they make no =
sense.
  + The value 'edit-and-compile of the option =
'ecb-other-window-jump-behavior'
    has gone.
  + 'ecb-use-dedicated-windows' is not longer a user-customizable =
option but
    it is always set to t, because this is essantial for correct =
working of
    the ecb-layout engine!

  + But now ECB does all necessary that your edit-window of ECB seems =
to be a
    normal Emacs frame, especially concerning displaying temp-buffers =
(like
    help- and completion-buffers) and compilation-buffers.
  + The variables 'compilation-window-height' and =
'temp-buffer-shrink-to-fit'
    (XEmacs) and 'temp-buffer-resize-mode' (GNU Emacs) are now fully =
supported
    by ECB.

- New function to toggle visibility of the ECB windows. Now it=B4s =
possible to
  hide all ECB windows without deactivating ECB (see =
'ecb-toggle-ecb-windows')

- ECB is now a global minor mode with it=B4s own menu "ECB" and it=B4s =
own keymap
  with prefix "C-c .". New function to (de)activate/toggle ECB with
  'ecb-minor-mode'.

- Fixed a bug in highlighting current token in the method-buffer when
  font-lock-mode is nil for the source-buffer.

- New option for highlighting the method-header in the edit-window =
after
  clicking onto the method in the method-window (like Speedbar does).

- Function for automatically submitting a problem report to the ECB =
mailing
  list: ecb-submit-problem-report.

- Now not only for method-highlighting an idle delay can be set but =
also for
  synchronizing the ECB windows with current edit window (see option
  ecb-window-sync and ecb-window-sync-delay; default is 0.25 sec =
delay).

- Smarter highlighting of current method.

- All tree-buffers now have as default-directory the current selected
  directory in the directory buffer. So you can also open files with =
find-file
  etc. from within the tree-buffers.

 <<ecb-1_40beta1.tar.gz>>=20


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