Drunken Dragon

Mainly API improvements to give easier usage for most common forms. The nice side benefit is that we have seen a 30% speed up in system build times along with that.

API changes

• Addition of \q wildcard, double quote, to regexp and charclass libs.

• Addition of (files-all-depends) and (files-depends) to lib/files/files.inc library.

• (split), (trim), (trim-start) and (trim-end) functions now takes an optional char-class as the split/trim string !

• New (flatten list) -> list function in root.inc.

• Change the argument ordering for the (sort list [cmp start end]) function and made the comparison function optional and default to cmp.

• New (usort list [cmp start end]) utility function.

• Iterator functions (each!), (some!), (map!) and (reduce!) now take arguments other than the lambda and the list of sequences as optionals !

• (elem-set) and (dim-set) now return the target array not the value.

• (elem-get), (elem-set), (dim-get) and (dim-set) now take the target array as the first argument.

• (slice) now takes the target sequence as the first argument.

• Introduce (redefun) and (redefmacro) ! If you are overriding an existing function or macro you must now use this declaration.

APP changes

• Editor and Viewer app now support :top and :bottom cursor actions. cntl-home and cntl-end bindings.

• Editor and Viewer app support for a cursor stack. cntl-d and cntl-D bindings for (action-push) and (action-pop). File will reload on pop, unless they have been deleted.

• Editor now has key bindings for (action-load-depends) and (action-load-all-depends) on cntl-e and cntl-E. Acts on the current file as the source for the action.

• Editor (action-find-function) binding on cntl-j, with (action-pop) on cntl-J for convenience.

• Slowly but surely adding the usage lines for all the ffi bindings. This is particularly important now we have the jump to function, push/pop actions.

• Added -d, -i and -a options to files command.

• Fix for forward.lisp defs regexp !

• (char-to-num) recoded to use ranges to specify the character regions.

• Introduce the lambda shortcut macro early in the root.inc file.

As usual check the STATUS.md file for summaries of the changes.

Regards to all

Chris