[ jEdit-announce ] jEdit 4.0pre6 now available

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

jEdit 4.0pre6 is now available from <http://www.jedit.org>.

+ New Features

- Enhanced quick copy feature:
  - Dragging with the middle mouse button now creates a selection
    without moving the caret, when the mouse button is released the
    selected text is inserted at the caret position and the selection is
    deactivated
  - A status bar message is shown while middle-dragging to avoid
    confusion
  - This is disabled by default -- enable in Text Area option pane
- Modula-3 syntax highlighting (Marcio Marchini)
- Smalltalk syntax highlighting (Marcio Marchini)

+ Enhancements

- Minor tweaks to VFS path code, that should make things a bit smoother
  for the FTP plugin
- Updated Prolog syntax highlighting (Giulio Piancastelli)
- Hard wrapping is now performed if there is only whitespace between the
  caret and the end of the line
- Pressing the Up or Down arrow when the caret is the first or last line
  of the buffer moves the caret to the beginning and end of the buffer,
  respectively
- Only one 'Search and Replace' dialog can be opened per view. Note that
  due to bugs in the Linux (and probably other Unix) Java
  implementation, the dialog has to be mometarily hidden and shown again
  for this to work
- Favorites menu in file system browser is now sorted using a
  case-insensitive sort
- Improved behavior of 'Plugins' menu when lots of plugins are installed
- Slightly faster scrolling
- Added 'Close' command to file dialog's right-click menu
- Removed funky background token's "paint to end of line" behavior
- Saving a file no longer causes cached token information to be flushed
  (doing this on a save was kind of pointless)
- Entering a new path in a file dialog box and clicking 'Open' now sets
  the browser's location to that path
- Home/end commands, up/down arrows are now soft-wrap-aware
- Documentation is now built using DocBook-XSL stylesheets 1.48
- Optimized text area's buffer event handler -- this should result in
  faster 'Replace All'
- Addition to jEdit's glob syntax: "{!glob}" is converted to the
  regular expression "(?!glob).*"
- You can double-click abbrevs in the 'Abbreviations' option pane to
  edit them
- If the block caret is enabled, the overwrite caret is now 1/3 the
  height of a character
- Documentation updates (me and John Gellene)
- Changes to build.xml; documentation on compiling from source now part
  of the source distribution (README.SRC.txt)
- Restored word command behavior to how it was in jEdit 3.2

+ Bug Fixes

- Malformed URL errors were not being reported correctly
- Fixed exception when double- or triple-click dragging (this was meant
  to be fixed in pre5 but I didn't get the fix quite right)
- Fixed NullPointerException when opening a new view
- Out of memory errors were not always reported
- Fixed minor inconsistency in handling of words -vs- keywords in
  'Complete Word' command
- Properly fixed 'unprintable characters in table of contents' bug
- Replace in selection would preserve the current selection, but not
  the caret position, so if there was a match at the start of the
  selection, the caret would move inside the selected range
- On Windows, double-clicking on a drive letter in the drives list of
  the file system browser would open the wrong location
- Focus manager under JDK 1.4 used the wrong traversal policy, this
  caused a few problems
- The status bar message shown when a bracket is out of bounds was not
  always being displayed if soft wrap was in use
- Fixed silly behavior in 'Install Plugins' dialog box
- Fixed possible NPE when loading tool bar with buttons for which
  actions do not exist
- Fold level changed events were not fired; this caused problems with
  indent folding
- Changing the fold mode using the 'Buffer Options' dialog box in a
  buffer that defined the 'collapseFolds' property could have slightly
  bizzarre results, because the folds were collapsed before the fold
  handler was changed
- Creating rectangular selections on MacOS was not possible since both
  the context menu and the rectangular selection was bound to
  Control-click. Now, you can Command-drag to create rectangular
  selections on MacOS
- Since the 'apply text area colors to all components' setting only
  fully took effect after a restart, jEdit.propertiesChanged() no longer
  performs the initialization for this setting, instead it has been
  moved to the startup sequence
- Fixed problem with markers returning to their original locations on
  save
- Removed obsolete option from 'Docking' option pane
- Fixed possible ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when expanding and
  collapsing folds near the end of the buffer
- 'Add Explicit Fold' command did not work properly with multiple
  selections
- Scrolling would not be performed when text was inserted sometimes, due
  to the last physical line index not being updated properly
- If tokens had background colors defined, scrolling horizontally would
  draw the backgrounds as if no scrolling had taken place
- When closing the last buffer, the edit pane would retain a reference
  to it in the 'recent buffer' field, and using the 'Go to Recent
  Buffer' command would result in weird things happening
- Setting the lineSeparator buffer property to override the line
  separator for a specific file did not work
- Fixed (harmless) missing resource exception when starting jEdit for
  the first time
- Fixed possible ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when using the
  'Collapse Fold' command (clicking fold triangles in the gutter still
  worked though)
- Removing text from the middle of a line with soft wrap on might not
  repaint the text area properly
- Added missing 'read error' and 'write error' I/O error strings
- Workaround for Graphics2D.setPaintMode() bug on Windows placed in
  background token painting code as well
- Memory indicator in status bar looked stupid on Windows L&F and other
  look and feels where the text color and progress bar foreground was
  the same
- Possible fix for 'timeout' error when opening a large number of files
  with jEditLauncher on Windows
- Autosave would stall the editor because it grabbed a read lock for the
  entire operation
- 'New File' command no longer creates read only buffers if the current
  buffer is located on a read-only filesystem
- jEditLauncher 4.0.2 fixes several bugs in the installer module
  (John Gellene)

+ API Additions

- Support for macros written in other languages (Mike Dillon)
  - Macros.registerHandler(Macros.Handler handler) method
  - Macros.Handler class has these methods:

    public abstract Macro createMacro(String macroName, String path);
    public abstract void runMacro(View view, Macro macro);
    protected Handler(String name)

  - 'name' is used to key "macro-handler.<name>.label" and
    "macro-handler.<name>.glob" properties.
  - One minor UI addition is that the language a macro is written in,
    along with the full path to the macro file is shown in the status
    bar when the mouse is over a macro's menu item or tool bar button.

- Support for pluggable fold handlers (Mike Dillon)
  - FoldHandler.registerFoldHandler(FoldHandler handler) method
  - FoldHandler class has these methods:

    public abstract int getFoldLevel(Buffer buffer, int line, Segment
seg);
    protected FoldHandler(String name)
-- 
Slava Pestov