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Problems/projects:
• fileset fast word count is gibberish.
• scrollbars of split window get confused
• need to add savePostHook to man, add other hook checks.
• batch multi dir
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= 6.52 Released!
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• Incompatibility w/ Kaleidescope fixed.
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= 6.51 Released!
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• New java mode.
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= 6.51b14 5-2-96
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• Fixes some problems introduced w/ filesets in last version.
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= 6.51b13 4-13-96
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• Fixes to fortran and perl modes.
• The updated java mode should be in this version...
• Updates to fileset procs. You may need to remove your preferences...
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= 6.51b12 4-3-96
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• 'showInvisibles' now available from mode popup in status bar.
• can again drag to end of buffer.
• Java mode updated.
• FTP'd files no longer give the "Wrap?" dialog.
• Directory scan in find dialog easier to use.
• word-match works w/ non-multi batch
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= 6.51b11 3-31-96
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• Many of the bug fixes hadn't gotten copied into the release dir for b10.
They are here now.
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= 6.51b10 3-31-96
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• 'rebuildFtpMenu' now works correctly out of the box.
• fix for 'endLineSelect'.
• Removed latex palette item and added help item.
• Easier to decide not to tearoff menus.
• HTML fixes.
• Perl filters work again.
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= 6.51b9 3-31-96
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• Command-click on a URL now selects it and sends off to internet config.
• regular expression search bug introduced in 6.21 fixed.
• 'insertText' now properly preserves the "mark".
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= 6.51b8 3-31-96
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• Alpha now knows that the Internet Explorer understands open-URL events.
• "Keyboard" macros can now be named and saved.
• 'recentProc' now exists again.
• Bug w/ menu floats not always opening fixed.
• Up-to-date html docs.
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= 6.51b7 3-31-96
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• Floating point precision problem fixed in calculator.
• Innumerable Tcl bug fixes by Vince Darley.
• HTML mode 1.4.
• "Helper Apps" on Config menu allows helper apps to be reconfigured.
• 'search' now works w/ 'searchStart'.
• added 'tearoffMenus' flag.
• brace blink problem corrected.
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= 6.51b5 11-26-96
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• IC Menu now has a telnet item, works w/ NCSA telnet.
• 'coloring' now affects color-while-you-type.
• New HTML mode and docs.
• A myriad of other small changes.
• Includes new version of Mercutio MDEF, internet config.
• Cache of temporary ftp mounts points.
• Can turn off all caching of mount points.
• Can now create new files at ftp mount points.
• setFileInfo has new 'pathname' type.
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= 6.51b3 8-26-96
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• 'sendUrl' again works from the menu.
• 'matchIt' has optional param
• 'eventHandler' w/ no new proc returns current handler
• HTML menu can now be torn off.
• Torn-off mode menus automatically hide and reappear.
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= 6.51b2 8-26-96
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• IC Menu now contains a 'finger' item. Works w/ Peter Lewis's finger
program.
• New version of MDEF. Hopefully, this version won't crash.
• 'Move files' in HTML mode no longer remove empty lines in the moved files.
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= 6.51 8-26-96
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• Menus tear off!
• 'gotoFunc' added to Text menus, assigned old gotoMark key binding.
• 'cd' once again silently supplies the leading colon on relative
pathnames.
• Problem of loading 'prefs.tcl' a second time fixed.
• 'findFile' and 'getfile' now accept an optional argument that specifies a
default directory or file.
• Titlebar popup now brings up findfile to correct dir or file.
• wordCompletion enhanced to allow underlines, and bound to F1.
• includeFiles menu fixed.
• C/C++ func menu now includes include files.
• Documented 'setCreator' and 'setType' in shell help file.
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= 6.5 Released - 8-23-96
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= 6.22 8-19-96
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• Another change to the C mode 'parseExpr'.
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= 6.21 8-18-96
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• 'regexp' now handles perl extensions such as \w in square brackets
• C, C++, and Java func expr fixes.
• C++ now default mode for .c and .h files. CodeWarrior and ThinkRef
default C/C++ menus.
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= 6.2b17 7-31-96
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• 'Recent' submenu added to AlphaLite.
• CW 10 will support extern apps! See here, young man.
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= 6.2b16 7-31-96
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• Fixed screwup in the latex funcs menu.
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= 6.2b15 7-31-96
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• Drag in read-only window no longer messes up hiliting.
• Triple-clicking is back.
• "Latex Guide" html version is back in full Alpha version.
• Codewarrior menu 'touch's file w/ IDE, so "Modification Date Caching"
*can* be enabled in the project preferences.
• The "Funcs" menu is back, and has now been reassigned the curly braces
icon. The marks menu has been moved to the icon w/ the big 'M'.
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= 6.2b14 7-31-96
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• Electric left at end of buffer fix.
• Palette crasher fixed.
• Some attempt to fix the intermittent problems w/ menu font sizes that some
people has been made. If it doesn't do it for you, you can turn them off
via the global variable 'smallMenuFont'.
• Workaround for some of the color problems w/ the status window.
• Closed hand appears immediately on drag.
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= 6.2b13 7-31-96
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• *Now* 'puts' to stdout is transparently ignored.
• The name of the 'Trash' eudora folder can now be changed.
• 'fillText' (and hence soft wrapping) now also respect the 'doubleSpaces'
flag.
• HTML 1.2 changes.
• Global config dialog smaller.
• The crash when opening and then closing an empty window on 68ks seems to
have disappeared.
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= 6.2b12 7-18-96
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• FTP and Fileset menus are back to where they should be.
• Help and palette menu items added for perl menu.
• Mail messages now show dates.
• Electric braces, returns, and semicolons now work in perl
mode. Added hierarchical help menu and palette to perl menu.
• electricC-blah routines are now just 'electric', and live in electric.tcl,
which used to be indentLine.tcl.
• HTML send-window can now tolerate windows w/ ' <n>' appended.
• Word-wrap crash w/ very long lines now fixed.
• Skew of Marks menu in dialog fixed.
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= 6.2b11 7-18-96
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• Changed 'winNames' back.
• Fixed redraw problem when backspacing w/ palette visible.
• Changed bindings for (sendtence|paragraph)Region.
• 'puts' now null proc.
• Annoying flicker when selecting text gone.
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= 6.2b10 7-17-96
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• Added wdef w/ border for pre-system-7.5 users.
• Floats can now be bound to mode w/ -z.
• Date routines fixed for year 2000 :-)
• winNames -f will no longer have ' <n>' appended.
• Removing 'All' from the popup marks menu now only removes the front
window's marks.
• Various fileset and html fixes.
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= 6.2b9 7-7-96
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• More latex changes, improvements, and documentation.
• Alpha can now be "deconstructed". See here.
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= 6.2b8 7-7-96
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• Floaters close if their menu is redefined.
• "Suffix Mapping" menu item under Config allows suffixes to be reassigned
among modes.
• ftpMode listing name formed differently
• New latex mode. 2.09 support is back.
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= 6.2b7 6-29-96
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• fixed diff mechanism
• a couple of fixes for html
• "Rebuild Tcl Indices" no longer picks up commented-out procs.
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= 6.2b6 6-28-96
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• faster scrolling behind floating windows.
• added '-n' option for floats.
• Big reorganization of Tcl code. See here.
• Fixed batch dir searches.
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= 6.2b5 6-23-96
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• fixed scrolling behind floating windows, although still slow.
• added 'float' and 'unfloat'.
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= 6.2b4 6-23-96
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• New latex changes.
• fixes for carriage return problem introduced in b3.
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= 6.2b3 6-13-96
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• Added new 'substituteWindow' as alternate to 'chooseWindow' in menu.
• Changed dynamic loading mechanism, saves memory, should work the same
unless you access auto_index or the 'tclIndex' file.
• added a call to 'savePostHook'.
• added ftp (Anarchy) menu. No docs yet.
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= 6.2b2 6-8-96
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• Function-call colorizing fixes.
• Changed windows menu a bit.
• sendUrl didn't work if HTML mode hadn't been used. Fixed.
• 68k 'eventHandler' finally fixed!!
• Remove marks handles metachars.
• Latex 3.2b9.
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= 6.2b1 6-8-96
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• Fixed new-fileset menu item from find dialog.
• Function-call coloring available for C and C++ modes.
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= 6.2a6 6-7-96
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• Fixed glob on other volumes bug.
• Mercutio 1.3b9.
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= 6.2a5 6-7-96
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• Fixed blank chars if typing as new window opened.
• Coloring bug with multiple-line colorized hunks of text fixed.
• 'printHeaderProc' replaced w/ 'printLeftHeader' and 'printRightHeader'.
• Fixed mode suffix bugs introduced in a4.
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= 6.2a4 6-6-96
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• Moved to CW8.
• Moved to Mercutio 1.3b6
• Added listpick interface to IC menu urls.
• 'immediateSend' now menu flag for eudora mode.
• Current mode can be changed via "Config:Current Mode:Change…"
• Current mode suffixes can be changed via the "Config:Current Mode:Flags…"
dialog.
• Added all of Vince's fileset stuff.
• HTML mode changes.
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= 6.2a3 2-15-96
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• '-c' option added to menu command tells menu routines to ignore
meta-chars.
• Added 'pushd', 'popd', and 'dirs' shell commands.
• String-coloring bug fixed.
• New LaTeX version.
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= 6.2a2 2-15-96
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• Memory corruption problem fixed.
• Changed html.tcl htmlMode.tcl sendUrl to use 'browserSig' var instead of
path.
• getWinInfo gets 'currline'.
• Enter key now sort of emulates what I'm told it does in Brief.
• Added HTML table row to tab-delimited format and back.
• 'dialog's popup menus no longer are scanned for command equivalents.
• searching for reg expr '\\reg' will now match '\reg'.
• Batch search now works for single-file searches as well.
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= 6.2a1 2-15-96
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• 'OpenHeader' added to CodeWarrior menu.
• option-mouse-down in code-warrior files now pops up a headers menu.
• "Find In Next File" now command-M in AlphaLite as well.
• Added 'nameFromAppl', which allows path to be found from creator.
• Many pathvars tossed.
• Added 'doubleSpaces' flag.
• 'addAlphaChars' allows characters to be added to definition of 'isalpha' and
'isalnum'.
• Regular expressions can now use '\w', '\W', '\s', '\S', '\b', '\B', '\d',
and '\D'. All but '\b' and '\B' can also be used inside of character classes.
• Delete filesets now works on enumerated filesets as well as non-enumerated.
• Improved HTML mode.
• Global variable substitution now performed on 'backDir'.
• Holding down the shift key during startup tells Alpha to skip
preferences files.
• 'edit' now accepts '-c' option that tells is to bring existing files to
front without asking if duplicate needed.
• glob bug fixed.
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= 6.12 2-15-96
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• Bad regular expression no longer complains for every file in fileset.
• Eudora alert annoyance removed.
• Support for Java syntax coloring and editing added.
• "Edit Nicknames" bug fixed.
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= 6.11 2-11-96
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• grep multi-file search/replace bug fixed
• 'special chars' color fix
• global menus
• nicknames w/ eudora
• Alpha now has its very own calculator.
• 'shell' param for setWinInfo
• thumb can no longer be dragged past max size of win (problem for win length
greater than 32k).
• 'killWindowStatus' default now front window.
• 'moveInsertionHere' now deselects first.
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= 6.1 2-1-96
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• Added '.' and '\' to list of chars escaped for non-grep batch searches.
• String-coloring draw problem fixed (sometimes printed chars from next line on
current line).
• Another IC tweak.
• Another Fortran mode tweak by the many Toms.
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= 6.098 2-1-96
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• Fixed non-grep batch searching problem.
• Typing in strings now colored.
• TeX prefs split into two pages.
• Potentially evil bug fixed for modes that don't color strings.
• CodeWarrior flag problem fixed.
• Internet Config clients on other volumes should open now.
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= 6.097 1-20-96
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• Changed bindings for 'Iconify'.
• 'noShiftBinding' gone.
• 'removeSavedSetting' now saves modifed vars first.
• new scheme mode
• regModeKeywords can now color strings.
• Coloring for keywords, strings, comments can be changed in mode dialog.
• Version 3.1 of Tom Scavo's TeX mode.
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= 6.0963 1-19-96
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• Change in the preferences dialog.
• Back to caret to denote control modifiers in menus.
• Changed command equiv for searchNextFile.
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= 6.0962 1-18-96
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• Fixes 'Find' crasher.
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= 6.096 1-15-96
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• 3.1 beta TeX mode by Tom Scavo.
• radio buttons and gray outlines added to 'dialog'.
• 'Escape' selects Cancel button again.
• Hopefully, the crashing w/ simple key sequences on international
keyboards is fixed.
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= 6.095 1-7-96
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• Non-alphanumeric mailbox names handled.
• "Revert To Backup" added to file menu.
• Replace-all can now be aborted w/ command-.
• multi-line comment coloring problem fixed.
• Eudora and config menus continue to evolve. The eudora mode, especially, I
think is especially slick. Opening mailboxes large is still slow, but
everything else works pretty well.
• Improved CodeWarrior error reporting from John Dunning.
• New icons for function keys in menus. The 'control' icon is now
different (looks like a picnic table).
• 'wordWrap' and 'softWrap' subsumed into a single variable ('wordWrap'), and
accessed via a menu in the status bar.
• Non-regular-expression batch searches now work correctly.
• Config menu re-arranged. Flags and vars now set using dialog.
• New 'dialog' function.
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= 6.094 1-7-96
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• Row-col indicator changes again.
• Drag bar problems fixed.
• Eudora mode significantly improved.
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= 6.093 1-6-96
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• Row-col indicator works for >10000 lines again.
• Fixed open-file bug recently introduced.
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= 6.092 1-6-96
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• Command-click on title now gives enabled menu, result is sent to tcl proc
'titlebar', currently opens the folder in the Finder.
• A few Eudora mode changes, now we have docs!
• Other random, assorted minor fixes.
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= 6.091 1-4-96
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• region modifiers now taken notice of read-only status
• text menu alternation problem fixed.
• space and delete work intelligently in browser and mail modes.
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= 6.09 1-4-96
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• File and mode-selection popup are now in the status window.
• 'showPlatform', 'showRowCol', and 'showMode' are gone, in effect always on.
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= 6.08 1-2-96
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• Another menu re-configuration. Help menu gone, everything now under system
help menu.
• "Quick Start" doc added.
• The "Sort Lines" menu item (under Text) now alternates w/ "Reverse Sort".
• "Mode Info" and "File Info" popups separated. "File Info" still popup,
"Mode Info" now under Config.
• You can no longer bring a window to the front and drag it in one click.
Let me know if you disagree w/ this. I had several complaints about the
current setup.
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= 6.07 1-2-96
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• Internet Config warning (on startup) removed.
• drag warning narrowed.
• obscure 'addAppPaths' bug fixed.
• defaults for color picker added.
• Slight menu re-configuration.
• Command-click and command-double-click differentiated a bit better.
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= 6.06 1-2-96
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• Redraw bug w/ split panes fixed.
• Bugs w/ command-double-clicking and slow file loads (both added in 6.05)
fixed.
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= 6.05 1-1-96
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• 'colorTriple' now takes an initial color.
• new routine icURL <URL> that passes arg to Internet Config, if present.
• command-clicking passes the text to Internet Config (doesn't yet work for
68k version).
• New Internet Config menu.
• New soft-wrapping feature. Vars 'wrapLow', and 'wrapHigh'.
• 'Push' and 'pop' marks moved up a level in Search menu. Hypertext jumps
now call 'pushMark' before performing the action.
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= 6.04 12-25-95
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• Cmd-double-clicking procs can now notice a "control"
modifier of the basic command-double-clicking. No mode yet uses this.
• Red and blue colors changed slightly.
• Eudora mode subject display glitch fixed.
• Fixed nastly little memory bug (which usually showed up while pasting
large chunks of text).
• XTCLs are gone. They will be replaced in the near future by the standard
Tcl extension mechanism. See Ray Johnson at SunLabs for more details.
• Bug inserting literals ampersands fixed.
• Discrepancy between two versions of 'menu' command fixed. Menuprocs are
called w/ two arguments, return value ignored.
• Tag files now always created type mac, prompt for wrapping tagwin no
longer occurs.
• If the first line of a file contains the text 'nowrap' anywhere in it,
the wrap prompt is not displayed, regardless of the line lengths.
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= 6.03 12-11-95
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• Including Pete Gontier's ClickWarrior, an init that vectors clicks in
CodeWarrior's project window to Alpha. See here for details.
• Fixed HTML display problem.
• Enhanced Fortran mode, mode-specific indentLine, fileset-specific
'cTAGS' from Tom Pollard. Also an 'emacs' smartMode in :Tcl:UserCode.
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= 6.02 11-11-95
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• Command-double-clicking on a URL now sends it to your web browser. See
here to customize.
• More of Vince Darley's Tcl code, new marking routines for C, C++, Tcl.
New rebuildTclIndices. (un)Commentbox(paragraph).
• Inserting text in keyboard macro doesn't mess up mark.
• Alpha menu icons don't pop up when other apps frontmost.
• "Recent Files" list can now be reset. Only one instance of a given
filename can now be in list.
• Added "Redefine colors…" submenu off Mode. See manual.
• Added Vince Darley's fillParagraph and smarterSource code.
• Added mode-specific prefs (not Vince's).
• Mail mode allows you to tell Eudora to quit notifying Alpha.
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= 6.01 7-21-95
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• 'repeatSearchBackward' and 'repeatSearchForward' now work correctly in
macros
• added/changed 'searchString'/'replaceString'.
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= 6.01 7-21-95
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• MacPerl mode fixes, new help files for MacPerl and BibTeX.
• Patterns menu from the find dialog now gets updated.
• "Drop•PS" is now selectable from the print menu.
• Very rudimentary eudora interface added. Install via the 'Utils' menu.
• Added 'tileMargin' var so that different win styles, such as those of
'Aaron', look right.
• Added 'eventHandler' hook to allow Tcl scripts to respond to incoming
Apple Events.
• Latex bug fixed.
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= 6.0 7-16-95!
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• Added 'Bib' to modes 'commentBox' recognizes.
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= 6.0b28 7-16-95
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• Fixed some distribution problems.
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= 6.0b28 7-16-95
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• Added 'Send Url' to Utils menu, moved emacs menu over to Mode.
• Fixed DOS-file crash.
• Fixed top-level HTML menu problem.
• New mode definitions for ADA flex/yacc
• New fixes/additions to Perl and BibTeX modes.
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= 6.0b27 7-11-95
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• New (and final, for a while) latex mode.
• "Remove Saved Setting" no longer unsets the variable.
• Changed HTML mode icon to Netscape, added a "Send URL to Netscape" item
under the HTML URLs submenu.
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= 6.0b26 7-4-95
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• Lock icon now redraws after resume.
• Another try at alleviating the annoying dialogs when using TPM 7.0.4.
• Another try at word-wrapping.
• A couple of drag-scrolling bugs in split-pane windows fixed.
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= 6.0b25 7-4-95
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• New HTML version
• 'indentOnCR' now respected during word wrapping.
• bug fix in bibtex mode.
• Crashing bug w/ split windows fixed.
• Read-only 'lock' icon now above vertical scrollbar.
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= 6.0b24 7-3-95
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• word-wrapping now uses vars 'wrapBreak' and 'wrapBreakPreface'.
• flags now work in C++ mode.
• New LaTeX version.
• "Find Options" dialog problems fixed.
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= 6.0b23 7-3-95
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• 'Win Sets' are gone. However, you can entirely duplicate their behavior
by using 'Create Fileset From Wins' and 'Open Entire Fileset' under the
"FileSets:Utilities" submenu.
• Nasty little (real old) bug that caused the cursor to appear only briefly
after a command executed finally fixed.
• Moved 'hilite' out of a Search submenu.
• "Replace in Fileset" moved to control alternate of "Replace All".
• Bug w/ queued replies (usually seen w/ think project manager) fixed.
• Fortran comment coloring bug fixed.
• Split pane bug fix.
• Word-wrapping bug.
• Fixed some hiliting bugs. In doing so, I broke scrolling when covered by
floating windows. For those of you that this affects, for right now I
say, "Don't Do That."
• Fixed "Goto Tab Stop" problem in TeX mode.
• 3D buttons have gone away. If you liked them, I suggest you get the "
Aaron" init. This should also fix the problem w/ crashing on the original
portables.
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= 6.0b22 7-1-95
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• Redraw fixes w/ multiple panes.
• Enable/disable emacs persists across executions.
• Changed buttons, etc.
• New version of latex code.
• Added 'Replace In Fileset" proc.
• Can now create filesets on the fly from the find window.
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= 6.0b21 6-12-95
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• Addition of underline keywords for latex mode (not in place yet).
• 'word match' works w/ batch searches.
• Multi-file directory scans have option of text-only.
• Final latex mode nearing completion.
• Small html and bibtex mode changes.
• Bindings w/ a shift, but not a command, control, or option, now work.
• 'latex' 2.09 proc works again....
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= 6.0b20 6-11-95
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• Fix in 'showVarValue'.
• 'editMark' now creates marks if they don't exist.
• Print submenu changed, can now set default printer app.
• Clicking on drag bar of inactive window makes active and then continues
to drag.
• indentLine/indentRegion and lineToParagraph/paragraphToLine added to
Convert menu.
• sendOpenEvent takes an option that tells it to not wait for a reply.
• Comment colorizing better.
• Files w/ Projector's "ModifyReadOnly" flag set can now be modified.
• LaTeX mode almost finished…
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= 6.0b19 6-5-95
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• Popup menus from the 'prompt' command now correctly display spacers.
• Lots of new latex and perl changes/fixes. 'latex' in the 2.09 version
works now.
• 'alpharc.tcl' has been renamed 'prefs.tcl'. Probably the last name change
in a while :-).
• Directory comparisons seem to be working on my machine...
• Printing through various apps allowed.
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= 6.0b18 6-3-95
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• Added docs for the new preferences routines ('addDef', 'addArrDef',
'removeDef', and 'removeArrDef', fixed some problems, added
a menu item to open up the new alpharc.tcl file, addUserLine now writes
to alpharc instead of userStartup.
• Slightly re-organized the Filesets menu.
• 'menu' now takes a "mode" flag.
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= 6.0b17 6-3-95
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• Added new user preferences system, use addDef/removeDef and
addArrDef/removeArrDef pairs. In prefs.tcl. 'userStartup.tcl' is no
longer sourced! However, there is now a new file called "alpharc.tcl"
that is sourced from the prefs folder. No tcl routines add text to
this file.
• Added new "recent files" sub-menu to File menu. "Recent" files can also
be opened via the 'editFile' dialog.
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= 6.0b16 6-2-95
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• cleaned up some messes put in w/ b15
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= 6.0b15 5-29-95
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• ordinary deletions after rectangular deletions work better.
• PPC scrollbar problem gone
• Text buffers now allocated via mac routines vs unix, hopefully giving
low memory behavior.
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= 6.0b14 5-29-95
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• "Mode:App Paths" a bit easier to use
• pathnames longer than 128 chars work
• bindings from non-active menus are not active either
• some split-pane redrawing problems fixed
• 'statusPrompt' no longer appends a space to the prompt
• shift no longer works as a binding modifier except for alpha-numerics
• command-shift-dash for "Switch to" for compilers now command-shift-s
• Nasty bug w/ get_directory and get_file fixed.
• All function keys/arrow keys now terminate incremental searches.
• 'get_directory' now accepts a prompt argument.
• 'statusPrompt' doesn't have problems w/ activate events any more
• 'prompt' no longer interprets slashes as command equivalents in menu
• command-v now 'paste's from within 'statusPrompt'
• 8-bit chars handled better.
• Repeat searches now always move at least one char before matching. Let
me know what you think.
• Some fixes for search-replacements w/ null patterns or replacement
strings. '&' in a grep replacement string now works correctly.
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= 6.0b13 3-25-95
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• Scrolling vertically through window correctly redraws when obscured by a
single floating window.
• 'addUserLine' now uses curly braces instead of parens.
• Cmd-double-clicking now works for "C" tags, Tcl procs in UserCode or
SystemCode, and words in the Tcl language. Can also access by selecting
a word and using the "Modes:Lookup Name" menu item.
• 68k on primitive 68ks better :-)
• Bug w/ hiliting on split windows fixed.
• Emacs menu can be turned on and off.
• Double-clicking on split-window bar toggles split window.
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= 6.0b12 3-20-95
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• New price structure, new registration system.
• Command-. works again.
• 'puts' spits carriage returns again.
• better replaceAll behavior
• Added '<E' extend style to menu items, forces new dynamic item
alternate group.
• Added 'getColors' command.
• Added hyperText ability.
• 'saveAs' changed.
• cmd-double-clicking in the window no longer brings up the mark menu,
but clicking on the curly braces and command-clicking on the titlebar both
still do. cmd-double-clicking now tries to find the definition of a C
function (See here).
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= 6.0b11 3-17-95
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• powerThumb back.
• filesets menu now responds to changes in file system if rebuilt.
However, this only works for filesets created this by this version or
higher. If you want to manually hack your userStartup.tcl to use your
old filesets, look at how the 'System' etc. filesets are defined in
fileSets.tcl.
• AEBuild works for 68k again.
• numlock is displayed on the statusbar
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= 6.0b10 3-15-95
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• 68k scrollbar thumb, titlebar popup crashes fixed
• 'numLock' flag added to remove bindings from keypad and use as keypad.
The "clear" or numlock keypad key now toggles this binding.
• 'scanfile' (and hence the grep procs) handle unix and ibm files better.
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= 6.0b9 3-1-95
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• Alpha correctly creates startup file and directory now.
• Keybinding and lookup done differently. Hopefully, the new scheme will
allow will better for international users. Please send me mail on
whether this is true. Also, handling of the CapsLock key should be much
better.
• Crashing when dragging thumb gone, but had to temporarily kill
powerThumb feature.
• Changed 'Csh' mode to 'Shel' mode.
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= 6.0b8 3-1-95 Switched to CodeWarrior, introduced many problems…
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• INCOMPATIBILITY! "userStartup.tcl" must now be in a "Alpha" folder
within your system preferences directory. Alpha will no longer find the
old preferences, and WILL NOT copy it over for you.
• command-click on window title now give popup menu showing location
• cleaner proc now copies instead of moving
• isearch doesn't quit when encountering bound characters unless with
command, control, or option.
• no longer support option modifed US KCHR resource that gets rid of dead
keys.
• Holding down control (sorry, option unavailable because of rectangular
editing) while clicking on paren selects paren in addition to contained
expression.
• Toolbox Assistant support added. By default, this has been added to the
C, C++, and Pascal modes. YOU MAY NOT SEE THIS IF YOU HAVE ALREADY MODIFIED
WHICH MENUS THESE MODES DISPLAY. If this is the case, just use the
'setModeMenus' option under the bottom popup menu above the vertical
scrollbar.
• "Mode:App Paths" allows Alpha's paths to various other applications to
be viewed, changed, or reset.
• Added commands 'splitWindow' and 'otherPane'. Not quite complete.
• Added postscript mode.
• Several colorizing bugs fixed, most having to do w/ comments.
• 'optionIsMeta' gone completely
• added 'forceMainScreen' flag. When set, all windows are forced to be
completely visible on the main screen. Otherwise, they just stay
whereever they open.
• 'suppressHeader' phased out in favor of 'printHeader',
'printHeaderTime', and 'printHeaderFullPath'.
• 'maskCapsLock' is gone, and capslock is handled more intelligently, at
least for US keyboards. This *will* be getting better in future versions.
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= 6.0b7 11-14-94
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• CodeWarrier fixes:
- create warrior fileset now notices more than one segment
- timeouts are longer
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= 6.0b6 11-14-94
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• Added a few things to support CodeWarrier.
• 'edit' now has -w option.
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= 6.0b4 11-11-94
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• added 'openTexWindow' to "Latex Utilities" submenu.
• fixed bugs in 'newModeVar', 'display'.
• slightly changed next/prev(sub)section latex commands to display
selected line at top of window
• 'userStartup.tcl' moved to "Internal:System Folder:Preferences:Alpha userStartup.tcl"
• GNU diff now works for directories other than the startup disk
• display bug fixed
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= 6.0b3 11-11-94
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• 'replaceText' bug fixed
• userStartup cleaner added at quit
• Compare directories is here!
• text clippings can now be imported via drag and drop
• Now check for drag-n-drop init...
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= 6.0b2 10-26-94
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• 'posActivate' gone
• Alpha now defines 'screenWidth' and 'screenHeight' variables.
• Alpha now checks for windows off screen
• Apple drag-n-drop of text and files supported.
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= 5.98 10-26-94
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• Fancy new menus!
• added Pascal mode. By default, this only recognizes files with .p suffixes.
• '-s' search option now saves 'forward', 'regExpr', 'matchWords', and
'ignoreCase'.
• menus now dynamically sourced.
• if '&' last char in menu item, no special chars interpreted.
• 'regModeKeywords' now allows additional keywords to be added, possible
of a different color than older keywords.
• 'largestPrefix' returns largest common prefix of a list of strings.
• 'getNamedMarks' changed behavior.
• 'regModeKeywords' has been changed.
• "File:Win Sets" submenu.
• Assorted color improvements.
• 'listpick' now returns an error if "Cancel" is selected.
• double-clicking on parens, square brackets, and curly brances selects
entire expression.
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= 5.97 9-26-94
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• ReplaceAll now notices and complains about regular expressions that
match zero-length pieces of text.
• Included GNU Diff w/ distribution. I forgot it w/ the previous two
distributions.
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= 5.96 9-25-94
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