[ jEdit-announce ] jEdit 3.1pre4 now available

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

jEdit 3.1pre4 is now available from <http://www.jedit.org>.

+ New Features

- New 'Writing Macros' section in user's guide (John Gellene)
- Lots more sample macros included (John Gellene)
- Inform syntax highlighting (Matt Albrecht)
- EditorExitRequested message sent when editor is about to exit but
  before settings are saved, buffers are closed, etc (Dirk Moebius)

+ Enhancements

- Updated to gnu.regexp 1.1.1:
  - Performance improvements
  - \<, \> (word start/end anchors) supported
  - \b, \B (word break, non-word break markers) supported
- Gutter line highlight code now highlights (if the interval is set to 5)
  line 5, 10, 15, etc. Before it would highlight line 1, 6, 11, etc.
- 'Find Selection' initially selects text in 'Find' field now
- Measurement units now highlighted in CSS mode
- The file dialog's file name field is no longer cleared when the user
  changes directories
- Improved 'magic caret' code when moving caret up and down
- New method for use in macros:

  Registers.append(JEditTextArea textArea, char register, String separator)

  Like the old append() method but you can specify a separator other than
  the newline character used currently.

- Markers can now be set in read only files
- Fixed meaningless error message displayed when a plugin depends on
  another one that cannot be loaded
- All edits performed by a macro are now batched into one compound edit
- Minor tweak: Invoking 'Wing Comment' with nothing selected now
  positions the caret between the command start and end strings

+ Neutral

- Session code moved to BufferList plugin. jEdit now supports one,
  default session only

+ Bug Fixes

- jEdit no longer uses the java.specification.version property, because
  on IBM 1.3 VMs, it is set to 1.2
- The 'Rename' command was never shown in the file system's right-click
  menu if the root of the directory tree was 'favorites:', even if a
  file inside a directory on the local filesystem was created
- Minor 'New File' command bug fixed
- Fixed minor mapping bug in JEditTextArea.invalidateLineRange() which
  caused gutter repaint problems when deleting lines
- Fixed minor bug with 'Browse User Macros' and 'Browse System Macros'
  methods
- Plugin manager's plugin update and install dialog boxes would throw
  exceptions if the check box next to the 'loading' message was clicked
- Deleting a macro bound to a context menu item or tool bar button would
  prevent jEdit from loading
- Fixed minor display glitch with macros in tool bar and context menu
  option panes
- Fixed minor syntax highlighting problem with Perl mode
- Incremental regular expression search didn't always work
- Various bugs when inserting and deleting text while narrowing is
  active fixed
- Scroll bar wasn't updated properly after a file load sometimes

+ API Changes

- GUIUtilities.showFileDialog() officially deprecated. Use
  GUIUtilities.showVFSFileDialog() instead
- ogsj.search.BufferListSet no longer abstract to simplify matters for
  advanced macros