This is being announced to debian-devel, not to debian-changes.
This is beta-test software -- do not put it in the distribution.
Please place this package in private/project/BETA.
This is for beta test by those debian developers who may be so inclined.
Date: Tue Oct 24 22:06:05 PDT 1995
Package: e2
Version: 2.0.beta-2
Description: A text editor, patterned after the unix vi editor
e2-2.0.beta is patterned after the vi editor, and provides
several enhancements, among which are C language syntax
hiliting and an X11 interface with clickpoint positioning,
click & drag selection, and more.
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This is a beta test version, and is expected to have bugs.
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The author says, in his README.hmtl file:
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This software _will_ break.
I know this.
The only reason I'm making this version available is so that I can
receive bug reports.
If you aren't willing to suffer core dumps, and report them to me
politely, then _don't_ use this software!
Priority: Routine
Changes: Update from 2.0e beta to 2.0h beta
The following is from the author's announcement.
Please report bugs directly to the author at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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There are no really big differences between elvis 2.0h (the new version)
and elvis 2.0g (the previous version), but here are the medium-sized
differences:
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* Bug fix: The tag stack works in the "help" documents now.
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* Bug fix: After ":set number", rectangular visible selections
should look correct now. In 2.0g, the hilighted region was 8
columns to the right of the real selected area. Also, the
cursor used to be displayed in the wrong place if it was on
the first character of the buffer; this has been fixed.
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* The :map command works in elvis.ini or .exrc files now. In
2.0g it didn't.
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* Some linking problems with the stop() function have been
fixed. Also, some POSIX systems had trouble with elvis' use of
sigaction(); I think I have that fixed now too.
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* The z command didn't work correctly in "html" or "man" display
mode. This has been fixed.
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* Under MS-DOS, initialization should work better now.
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* Instances of "#if defined(__STDC__) || (__cplusplus)" have
been replaced by "#if USE_PROTOTYPES". This was done because
many ANSI-plus-extensions compilers don't define __STDC__ when
the extensions are enabled.
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* When an edit session is restarted, elvis will assume that the
filenames for any user buffers are the same as their buffer
names.
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* When a user buffer is created, its name will be the same as
the filename. Previously it was just the basename, but that
caused problems if you wanted to edit versions of the same
file from different directories.
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* If you set undolevels to a value greater than 1, then elvis
will use u to undo and ^R to redo, like vim. The circular
[count]u style was just too confusing. Also, a :redo command
has been added.
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* Filename arguments are now subjected to the same sort of
calculation as the :eval command. This was done mostly so that
environment variables could be expanded in filenames. It also
means that parenthesis characters have suddenly become
dangerous in filenames.
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* The calculator now has two new built-in functions:
elvispath(file) which searches through elvispath for a given
file, and feature(name) which returns "true" if the named
feature is supported in this version of elvis. Currently the
feature(name) function just tests to see if "name" is the name
of a supported display mode.
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* Fixed some problems with tag lookup in HTML mode.
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* For UNIX, the default config.h file will now indicate whether
<termcap.h> should be #included. This is set automatically,
depending on whether the /usr/include/termcap.h file exists or
not.
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* The x11 interface now supports the "selection" style of
interclient cut & paste, as well as the older X11 cut buffer
style. This means that you should now be able to cut & paste
with any application that follows ICCCM guidelines.
(Previously, elvis 2.0 only supported the older X11 cut
buffers, which allowed cut & paste between elvis and xterm,
but nothing else -- not even rxvt.)
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Elvis can be configured to change the cursor color to indicate
whether it owns the selection. ":color c red on green" will
make the cursor green if elvis owns the selection, and red
otherwise.
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* Fixed a bug in the error message generated when "-b" is given
an invalid block size argument. Previously, elvis would leave
the terminal in "raw" mode.
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* The MS-DOS version now chooses a unique name for the default
session file, just like the UNIX and NT versions.
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At this point, the most annoying bug is one that shows up about 2% of the
time when you give the "cw" command (or any command which stuffs a $ into
the file to indicate the end of the affected text). When you type, the
new text is inserted into the file, instead of simply replacing the old
text. This leaves the old text and $ character in the buffer. If anybody
out there can shed some light on this one, pleace contact me.
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