Minimum Profit 5.x Release Notes ================================ 5.0.3 ----- * New action 'open_under_cursor', that picks the word in the current document under the cursor, accepts it as a document name and tries to open it. If it's in the format string:number, is accepted as a file name and a line number. It's bound by default to 'ctrl-enter' ('alt-enter' under Curses). * The 'grep' action bevahaviour has changed; instead of in a form, matches are shown in a read-only document that is only closed explicitly. Each change can be moved to by using the new 'open_under_cursor' ('ctrl-enter' or 'alt-enter') action shown above. * In a similar way, the 'build' action also shows its output in a read-only document instead of a form that is not automatically closed, making the browsing and editing of compilation errors more useful. * Forms in the Curses driver have changed their look. All fields in a form are shown simultaneously on screen. This is one step to close bug #1249. * A set of character encoding converters have been natively implemented, improving those platforms where the 'iconv' library is not available (i.e. Windows and old Unix systems). The available encodings can be shown by executing dump(EMBEDDED_ENCODINGS); 5.0.2 ----- * New option to mark end of line characters, with its associated configuration directive (mp.config.mark_eol). * The end of line string (mp.config.eol) is now system-dependent (so, on win32, it's set by default to \r\n). * Copy and paste on GTK has been fixed (this was bug #1205). * Fixed some redrawing issues (bug #1236 and others). * Ctrl-keys no longer fail on GTK (bug #1252). * New document 'Minimum Profit Action Reference'. * New action 'build', for building Makefile-based projects. See the action reference for details. 5.0.1 ----- * Improved line edition in the Curses interface (full edition plus file expansion using the 'tab' key in open / save file prompts). * Auto-indenting is temporarily disabled while pasting (bug #1250). * New document 'Minimum Profit Function Reference' (contributed by Lee Page). 5.0.0 ----- * The search hit is highlighted. * When invoked from the menu, the 'record_macro' action dropped the last key (bug #1245). * A Curses configuration detection has been fixed that made some things behave strangely, as the drop-down menu not responding under some terminal configurations (bug #1247). * The Curses menu no longer crashes if it doesn't fit on the screen (bug #1195). * The -f (execute script) command line argument really works (bug #1240). * New manual page (bug #1219) and README files (bug #1218). * Updated documents, 'MPSL Overview' and 'Minimum Profit Cookbook'. * New documents, 'Minimum Profit Data Model' and 'Creating interactive dialog boxes'. 5.0.0-rc3 --------- * New session support. All open documents and its current position can be stored / retrieved with the new 'save_session' and 'load_session' actions. Two new configuration flags has been added: mp.config.auto_sessions, to automatically load / save sessions, and mp.config.local_sessions, to save sessions in the currently active directory instead of in the home directory. * Multiple key sequences for invoking actions (ala Emacs) are now possible. To create them, just assign a hash to a keycode instead of an action. For example, to assign the key sequence Ctrl-x Ctrl-f to 'open' and Ctrl-x Ctrl-s to 'save', you can use mp.keycodes['ctrl-x'] = { 'ctrl-f' => 'open', 'ctrl-s' => 'save' }; * In the curses version, confirmations now have default values (shown in brackets), activated with the ENTER key. * New action 'close_all', that closes all documents. 5.0.0-rc2 --------- * New 'complete' action, that asks for completion on the current word using any of the words found in the same document. * New 'redo' action, to revert undo operations. * The global configuration file `/etc/mp.mpsl' is also executed. * In the 'replace' action, the substitution string can contain the special character &, that will be replaced by the matched string (as in the `sed' command line tool). 5.0.0-rc1 --------- * New support for translating key sequences into MP keycodes, mainly for redefining ANSI sequences not supported by current terminfo / termcap. For example, if your terminal sends the ANSI sequence [6;5~ whenever you press Ctrl+page down, you can add to your config file the following line: mp.add_keyseq("[6;5~", 'ctrl-page-down'); * A new 'system_command' action, to pipe from and to system commands (Closed bug #1120). * A new 'word_count' action, to count the number of lines and words in a document (or in the selected block). * Incorrect word wrapping has been fixed (Closed bug #1137). * Search and replace expand backslashed characters like \n and \t (Closed bug #1214). * New timer functionality has been added; a user function can be called each time a specified period of milliseconds have elapsed. If, for example, you want to print a string on standard output each two seconds, you can run mp.timer(2000, sub { print("Hi, world!\n"); }); 5.0.0-pre1 ---------- * Password-protected files fully work. * Moving to next / previous instance of character (bound to ctrl-page-down and ctrl-page-up) works (Closed bug #1131). * Files open MUCH faster. * Selection can be done by pressing shift + any movement key (Closed bug #1182). * Dialog boxes work under Windows 98 (Closed bugs #1196, #1197). * Block selection can be done by dragging the mouse (Closed bugs #1200, #1201). * New 'grep' functionality (Closed bug #1116). * New action 'sync' (save all modified documents, closed bug #1206). * New action 'document_list' (show a box with all open documents, allowing the selection of the active one; closed bug #1211). * Translations ported from mp 3.x (closed bug #1169). * Most syntax highlight definitions ported from mp 3.x (closed bug #1168). 4.99.12 ------- * The menu in the Curses interface has been (finally) implemented. * Interfaces have changed internally; a new driver function, mp.drv.form() serves as a dialog box generic generator, resulting in more useful queries for data (for example, all data required for a 'replace' operation is queried in only one dialog box). The Curses implementation, though functional, is still just a wrapper to the old interface functions and fields are queried one-by-one (which is annoying). This is an example of a call to mp.drv.form(); the r variable will contain an array of 5 elements (one per widget) containing the values, or NULL if user cancelled: local r = mp.drv.form( [ /* a 'text' widget */ { 'label' => "Replace this:", 'type' => 'text', 'history' => 'search', 'value' => 'THIS' }, /* another one */ { 'label' => "With:", 'type' => 'text', 'history' => 'replace', 'value' => 'THAT' }, /* a 'password' widget */ { 'label' => 'Password:', 'type' => 'password' }, /* a 'checkbox' widget */ { 'label' => "Case sensitive:", 'type' => 'checkbox', 'value' => mp.config.case_sensitive_search }, /* a 'list' widget */ { 'label' => 'All C files:', 'type' => 'list', 'list' => glob('*.c'), 'value' => 10 } ] ); * Password protecting files works (but they cannot be opened yet, so this is far from useful, unless you use mp 3.x to open them). * Case sensitivity in searches can be controlled with the new config flag mp.config.case_sensitive_search. * Replace (and global replace by use of the new config flag 'mp.config.global_replace') works. 4.99.11 ------- * Syntax highlight definition have changed (again, hopefully for the last time). Definitions are now an array of attribute name / regexes in which the order is significative. * Template insertion works. * Tag selection (open the file where a symbol is defined) works. * Symbol completion (using tags) works. * Closed bugs #1159, #1158, #1153, #1161. 4.99.10 ------- * A big advance in the Curses interface: Alerts, confirmations, and open file, save file, search and generic prompts are working. Still lacking the selection lists (as the rest of interfaces) and the menu. * Improved menus: if an invalid action is added to a menu, it's shown followed by a ?; if a key is bound to that action, it's shown between square brackets. * For systems lacking iconv support (MS Windows), a crappy, ad-hoc utf-8 converter has been added. This means that hitting 'escape' and typing encoding('utf-8'); makes reading and writing utf-8 encoded files possible on every system. * New action 'join_paragraph', to join current paragraph all in one line. * New action 'word_wrap_paragraph', that re-word-wraps current paragraph. Word wrapping must be set ('mp.config.word_wrap = number;') for this to work. 4.99.9 ------ * The GTK and win32 drivers now include a native open/save file dialog. * Interactive help (help for the word under the cursor, triggered by pressing 'f1') works. * The menu in GTK and win32 works. * New icon! * Some bugs that caused random crashes has been fixed. * New action 'exec-doc', that executes the active open document as MPSL code. 4.99.8 ------ * New configuration option mp.config.tabs_as_spaces, to store tabs as spaces. * Each syntax highlight definition can contain an optional function called detect() that receives the document as argument and can be used to tailor special detection rules. * A big part of the internal storage of colors and attributes have been rewritten to make it more dynamic. * Tag target for the word over the cursor is shown in the status line. * Move word left works. * Opening an already open file makes it the active one instead of re-opening it. * The 'execute code' action has been remapped from ctrl-f1 to escape. * Spellchecking via ispell works (though it's SLOW!). Activate it by hitting escape and typing: mp.ispell(1); * By default, files are now unlinked before (re)written. File permissions and ownership are restored if available. This behaviour can be disabled by setting mp.config.unlink to 0. * The GTK driver drawing code has been optimized, so it's much more responsive now. 4.99.7 ------ * The 'modified' flag of documents is maintained, so now closing files with pending modifications ask for confirmation. Also, the %m status line directive works (marking modified files with an asterisk). * Flex and bison are no longer needed to build. * The 'close window' button in GUIs (win32 and GTK) now generate the special keycode 'close-window'. * The 'exit' action now closes all open documents, asking for saving confirmation on those modified. * Temporary versions of the 'open' ans 'save' actions (using mp.drv.readline() instead of an ad-hoc open file dialog) have been implemented. * The GUI interfaces now can have their font preferences configured by using mp.config.font_face and mp.config.font_size. * The actions 'zoom-in' and 'zoom-out' (font size rescaling, bound to F11/F12 and ctrl-kp-minus/ctrl-kp-plus) have been implemented. * New mouse-related actions: move-to-mouse-position, move-mouse-wheel-up and move-mouse-wheel-down. 4.99.6 ------ This is an EXPERIMENTAL version for evaluation purposes only. There are many things that aren't implemented, others fail miserably and many more do it incorrectly. Basically, what is known to work is: * Basic text editing fully works. I've been using it for six months or so to maintain itself, and there has not been a crash in three months, more or less. * Scripting works fine (90% of Minimum Profit 5.x itself is implemented in MPSL, its internal scripting language). * Undo works fine. It's bound to ctrl-z. * Works cleanly in an UTF-8 environment. I do development on the GTK version, so it's where it works best. The curses version lacks many of the interface (alerts, confirmations, asking for text, etc.), so it's barely usable. The win32 version seem to work, but it needs to be manually installed and probably need some tweaking. What it doesn't work: * The dialogs to open or save a file by its name aren't implemented. There are workarounds for this: files can be opened from the command line and save works correctly if the edited file has a name. Also, files can be opened by hitting ctrl-f1 (execute script code) and typing: mp.open("file-to-be-opened"); * There is no menu. * No ispell support. * No password protected files. * No grep. * No external commands (so no support for help, tags, etc.). * Some movement commands as moving a word left, moving to matching brackets, etc. are still not implemented. * Only a few syntax highlight definitions are implemented. * Many other things I cannot remember. Documentation is still scarce: the more interesting bits are inside the mpsl/doc directory. This is where the scripting language is documented, with some basic overviews and implementation notes (there is even an embryo of a PostScript quick reference guide). Customizing can be done by writing MPSL commands in the ~/.mp.mpsl file, which is read on startup. I have not tried to optimize the internal engine, so it's probably some magnitudes slower than the 3.x version.