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I almost have version 2.1.1 ready. I'm probably about 4 weekends away.
You can download a copy of the source code from...
ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/unreleased/almost-2.2_1.tar.gz
The following bugs have been fixed:
:andale was using Luxi Mono fonts
The :andale alias (used in the "x11" user interface) was
actually using Luxi Mono fonts instead of Andale fonts.
filenamerules broke newline handling
When I implemented the filenamerules option in 2.2.0, I
accidentally broke the way it parses newlines. This is important
if you remove the spaces keyword from filenamerules, and then do
something like ":n `grep foo *.txt`" to sets the args list to
all files containing "foo".
HTTP User-agent: header line
When sending HTTP requests, Elvis should send a User-agent:
header line. Some web sites demand this.
Default button names
In the "html" display mode, the <input type=submit> and <input
type=reset> tags should have the default values "Submit" and
"Reset" respectively. In 2.2.0, they have no default.
<hr/> shows ------------>
The "html" display mode had trouble with tags that end with
"/>". Elvis would display the > on the screen instead of hiding
it.
<Esc>
The <Esc> key should beep when pressed in visual command mode.
Delayed screen updates in "x11" user interface
When a map times out, Elvis wasn't updating the screens
immediately in the "x11" user interface, which made it hard to
detect that the map had indeed timed out.
"d)" could crash
In a file full of blank lines, "d)" caused 2.2.0 to dump core.
:put from a cut buffer
The :put command wasn't accepting a cut buffer name argument.
:dict didn't handle single words
The :dict alias (after ":load dict") didn't handle single-word
queries correctly.
The directory editor's links were relative to the wrong directory.
If you used ":e dirname" to edit the directory "dirname", then
the links in the generated HTML weren't interpreted as being
relative to "dirname". They were treated as being relative to
the current directory.
"x11" converts <b> to ^K0062.
The "x11" user interface is too aggressive when trying to
convert key names from angle-bracket notation to raw characters.
If a map contains an HTML tag such as <b>, and the tag name
happens to match the name of a key such as the "b" key, then
Elvis was trying to convert that keystroke into a raw control
sequence.
":normal cwFOO^[" didn't work
The c operator was implemented in a way that didn't work in the
:normal command.
".IP \(bu 4" had too large of an indent.
This is apparently due to the fact that "4" has no explicit
scaling suffix, and .IP was using the wrong default scaling
factor.
Hard to enter ^ in WinElvis on a Norwegian keyboard
WinElvis has always had a hard time with "dead keys", but now
I'm hopeful that it should work. The ^ key works in Norway now,
at least.
":e +cmd file" didn't work
For the :e command and a few others, the "+" flag could only
handle a line number parameter, not a full ex command line.
Typos in manual.
Many found and fixed. Still many more to be found, I'm sure.
:chregion always changes the comment
The :chregion shouldn't change the comment of an existing region
unless you give a new comment explicitly, or the old comment was
merely the old font name.
":set show=spell" doesn't work very well.
You need to load the whole dictionary to get good suggestions
from the spell checker. In 2.2.0 you had to turn on the
"spellautoload" option, but in 2.2.1 that option is on by
default.
:map doesn't list all user-defined maps.
2.2.0 assumed that any map tied to a symbolic key was defined by
the system, so it wouldn't list it unless you said ":map all".
This means you couldn't see actions mapped to function keys.
2.2.1 is smarter about this -- it adds a flag to indicate
whether the map was added by the user or created automatically
by the GUI.
Command names were truncated in error messages.
When displaying a "bad command name" error message, 2.2.0 would
truncate the name at the first character that prevented it from
being recognized as a command. 2.2.1 displays the full name of
the bad command, exactly as you typed it.
:man doesn't display backslashes correctly
The :man alias didn't handle backslashes very well, so pages
which use a lot of backslashes such as ":man groff_man" looked
bad.
:%unr doesn't always remove all regions.
This mostly occured when running autocmds. It also affected the
:chregion command.
:%j only joined two lines
The command ":1,%j" joins all lines but ":%j" only joined two.
elvis.ini maps too much
The default "elvis.ini" file contained maps without the nosave
flag, so if you ran :mkexrc in an xterm, your ~/.elvisrc file
would contain maps that are present in all user interfaces and
for all termcap terminal types.
:mkexrc can lose GUI-specific options
The :mkexrc command only saved GUI-specific options for the
current GUI. This means that running :mkexrc in the "termcap"
interface could clobber your default font for the "x11"
interface. 2.2.1 gets around this by storing all GUI-specific
options, even those for other GUIs or unknown GUIs, just so it
can save them in the ~/.elvisrc file.
<li><p> looks ugly
Many HTML documents use this sequence of tags to generate lists
that have a bit of vertical whitespace between items. But 2.2.0
was drawing the list item marker (bullet or number) on the blank
line, instead of the line where the paragraph's text starts.
2.2.1 treats this as a special case -- it ignores the <p> in
this context.
security=safer is too strict
The "security=safer" setting didn't allow some command that it
should have allowed. This prevented some harmless and useful
commands such as "elvis -client foo" from working. To get this
working right, I had to overhaul the behavior of
"security=safer". It is no longer a more lenient superset of
"security=restricted". See ":help set security" for details.
One consequence of this is that the "-S" flag now sets
security=restricted.
:wq didn't work when security=safer or security=restricted.
The manual said it should. The new version of security=safer
doesn't allow any writing, but you can now :wq when
security=restricted.
The "ax" text object didn't support tag names with hyphens
I've extended it to allow single hyphens but not double hyphens
(since double hyphens mark comments). It also allows colons, for
namespace control.
dirperm(".") returns readonly
The dirperm() function didn't recognize directories correctly.
This was a bug in the way the "dir:" pseudo-protocol was
implemented.
hlobject didn't allow commas
An increasing number of options in elvis store multiple values
in comma-delimited lists. The "hlobject" option can store
multiple values, but required them to be either crammed together
or delimited by spaces. Now it supports commas.
rcssince didn't work
The rcssince alias (part of ":load since") is supposed to be
executed when a buffer is loaded, but it used some commands
which are illegal during initialization. Most of the commands
that are illegal during initialization are only illegal because
they're useless until the first file is loaded into a buffer.
The rcssince alias was actually running after the file was
loaded, so it should be allowed, but Elvis had a rather weak
idea of when "initialization" ends.
:suspend didn't work
It wasn't in Elvis' internal command list correctly. The :stop
equivalent has always worked though.
Backslashes aren't handled right in "simpler syntax"
If a "simpler syntax" expression started with \( or \$ then
Elvis should convert that to a literal ( or $ character.
Instead, 2.2.0 was leaving it as a literal \ followed by an
parenthesized subexpression, or $ variable substitution. (This
arose from trying to make an initial \\ remain unchanged so
Windows users could five UNC names such as \\machine\dir\file.)
AliasLeave events
At the end of an alias, 2.2.0 generated an AliasEnter event when
it should have generated an AliasLeave event.
:eval does not compute
The :eval command could get confused if the command that it runs
needs to evaluate an expression. This was because a static
buffer is used to return the results of evaluations, and :eval
didn't copy the result into a local buffer before trying to
execute it.
Trouble with gzipped files
The ":load gzip" command (formerly ":load augz") sets up elvis
to automatically handle gzipped files. It has some problems, but
the two biggest problems are now fixed.
One problem was that filtering commands always wrote out the
final newline to gunzip, even though that newline wasn't part of
the gzipped data. This caused gunzip to output an error message.
2.2.1 doesn't write out the final newline when the
"partiallastline" option is set.
The other main problem was that the file was initially displayed
in hex mode, even after the file had been gunzipped into text.
To get around this, elvis will now temporarily remove ".gz" from
the end of the file name, then rerun the "elvis.arf" script, and
then slap the ".gz" back on the file name again so the file can
be saved correctly.
"x11" could generate a BadMatch error while exiting
This would occur if you start Elvis from an xterm, and then
exited the xterm before Elvis. Elvis will now ignore that
particular error.
The following new features have been added:
:nofold
Wipes out folds. This differs from :unfold in that :unfold
leaves some information behind to allow the region to be easily
refolded. :nofold leaves nothing behind.
Persistent information
Elvis can store cursor positions and some other things between
invocations. See the "persistfile" and "persist" options.
%< and #< in filenames
When giving file name arguments, you can use %< and #< to get
the name of the current or alternate file, with its extension
removed. For example, if you're editing "database_interface.c",
then you can get to "database_interface.h" by typing ":e %<.h".
:phelp command
Like :help except that :phelp doesn't split the screen. Instead,
it saves your old cursor position on the tag stack and then
shows the help page in your current screen.
X11 buttons can simulate keystrokes
The :gui command accepts a new notation for defining toolbar
buttons that simulate keystrokes instead of invoking an ex
command. This is useful when you want to do something with a
character selection; ex commands treat all selections as line
selections.
The notation uses square brackets around the name. You can put
the characters to simulate after the closing square bracket. If
you omit those characters, then Elvis will simulate keystrokes
that spell out the button name, with the brackets included. You
can then set up a :map to convert that to something else. That
can be nice because elvis allows maps to be somewhat context
sensitive.
Computed line addresses
In ex command lines, you can now use =option to pull a line
address from an option, or =(expression) for more complex
expressions. This is often handy in aliases.
GDB interface
The core of a simple GDB interface is provided, to allow Elvis
and GDB to work together. This depends on Elvis' "x11" user
interface; you can't use it with the termcap interface. It is
implemented partly as a C program that acts as a "wrapper"
around GDB and parses its output for things that Elvis needs to
know, and partly as a set of aliases which receive that
information and act on it (e.g., by moving the cursor, or
changing the highlight of breakpoint lines).
Generic "state" display
A new "state" option has been created. If the "show" option
contains the keyword "state", then the value of the "state"
option will be displayed at the bottom of the window. This can
be handy in complex alias packages. The GDB interface uses it to
indicate the debugged program's status.
More function keys
The <F11> and <F12> function keys are now supported on most
platforms. I also tried to support shift and control function
keys, with some success on Linux.
:map noselect ...
The :map command now supports a noselect flag. This is short for
"every context except select".
:load scripts described
I've added a section to the "Tips" chapter describing the
scripts in Elvis' library. (These may be loaded via the :load
alias.)
:source can read from a program
The :source command has been extended to allow it to read the
output of a program, and interpret that output as a series of ex
commands. For example, you could create a program that scans an
HTML document and outputs a series of :fold commands to allow
you to selective hide sections of it.
incsearch partially supports history
When using incremental search, the final search expression is
stored in the search history. You can use arrow keys or ^Ok and
^Oj to retrieve a previous search. Full editing is still only
supported for non-incremental searches, though.