(This file, NEWS, lists new features and enhancements. See CHANGES for fixes.)
3.3.4 2025-02-06
* Bracketed paste now consults the AutoIndent flag to determine whether to
preserve the cursor's initial horizontal offset. It's like a block
level AutoIndent rather than a line-by-line (and therefore
cumulative) AutoIndent. Being created internally by the Shift command,
the introduced leading space also honors the Tabs and ShiftTabs flags.
Like leading space introduced by AutoIndent, a single Undo removes the
bracketed paste's auto indented space; a second Undo removes the pasted
text itself.
Bracketed pastes now act like "normal" pastes, setting the '<' and
'>' bookmarks, and leaving the cursor at the head of the paste.
3.3.3 2023-10-19
* BracketedPaste support has been added; turns off AutoIndent when
pasting text from the system clipboard.
3.3.2 2022-09-13
* Paste and PasteVert now set two bookmarks designated '<' and '>' which
are set to the start and end of the most recently pasted text. Accessed
by the "GotoBookmark <" and "GotoBookmark >" commands. Two associated
menu items have been added to the "Search" menu.
* Added toml.jsf syntax.
* Support '_' in numeric constants, binary and hex constants, imaginary
numbers in go.jsf syntax.
* Now there is an uninstall target that uninstalls ne.
* Additionally load key bindings from ~/.ne/.keys-${TERM}
3.3.1 2021-05-16
* The makefile has been made more distro friendly by making it possible
to override all compiler and linker options.
* A workaround has been implemented to make --ansi (mostly) work when
compiling with ncurses. A change to ncurses in 2012 made tgoto() not
working unless tgetent()/setupterm() are called first.
3.3.0 2020-02-27
* You can now Save (^A) named documents from within the
SelectDoc (F4) requester.
* The mark, if set, is visible.
* Warning about opening a document with the same name as an existing
document now considers the fully qualified canonical path and name
of each rather than just their basenames.
* Status bar Modified flag (*) may also be underlined, indicating the
corresponding file's modification time has changed since the document
was loaded or saved.
3.2.0 2019-09-30
* Macros: They now work across multiple documents. You can cancel macro
recording, and append new recorded commands to your current macro.
* New documents inherit their predecessor's current macro, search, and
replace strings.
* Saving of read-only documents requires confirmation.
* Word completion now does not consider the word the cursor is currently
in, which helps in disambiguating.
* The option -h is now an alias for --help. Thanks to Lonnie Abelbeck for
implementing this feature.
* Add asterisk.jsf syntax.
* FIND in string inputs brings up a requester with your input history.
Use Enter to replace, TAB to insert into your input line; Escape to exit.
* Enhanced commands: MoveEOW, NextWord, and PrevWord can now move to either
end of the indicated word via optional '<' and '>' parameter modifiers.
* Requesters make better use of white space.
3.1.2 2018-10-06
* RepeatLast now accepts "Find" or "Replace" after its optional number so
you can explicitly repeat either operation even if the other was most
recently performed.
* We now use the xenl property to detect whether we can write on the last
column of the last line, thus making the status bar complete.
3.1.1 2017-06-04
* You can now CloseDoc (^Q) unmodified documents from within the
SelectDoc (F4) requester.
3.1.0 2017-04-29
* Large files that do not fit into memory are memory-mapped transparently
if enough disk space is available.
* Determine a "virtual extension" based on document contents and patterns
from ~/.ne/.extensions. Allows overrides of specified extensions only.
If no match, use .default#ap prefs.
* Status flag "!" indicates the last line of document is not empty, thus
the last line of the resulting saved file will not be terminated.
* Requesters by default no longer remove non-matching entries as you
enter characters. Use Insert or Delete keys within a requester
to toggle between these behaviors.
* Documents loaded through file requesters now have relative instead of
absolute paths.
* New NameConvert command (NC for short) changes current document's file
name from relative to absolute path or absolute to relative path.
* "SetBookmark ?" and "GotoBookmark ?" now prompt for the bookmark you
want to set/goto. The prompt also indicates which bookmarks are set.
* Command line option "--read-only" opens next document in read-only mode.
* Options "--read-only" and "+N,M" can be applied to piped input:
ls -l | ne --read-only +3,5 -
* Warn if SaveAs would overwrite an existing file.
* Suspend (Crtl-Z) works in prompts, requesters.
* "KeyCode" now takes optional parameter.
* Immediately/only after "Not Found", RepeatLast wraps around to the
other end of the document.
3.0 2015-06-18
* ne is now fully 64-bit, and needs to be compiled by a C99-compliant
compiler. Files can be of any size, provided that enough core memory
is available.
* ne is able to read from named pipes. You can even pipe content into
ne: it will be opened as the first document.
* It is now possible to interrupt searches (it used to be possible just
to interrupt global replace actions).
* Word wrap has been reverted to pre-2.5: it preserves just whitespace,
and it doesn't reparagraph at each line split or join. Paragraph keeps
the usual smart features preserving comments, etc.
2.6 2015-04-17
* Requesters (filenames, help, autocompletions, etc.) do progressive
"fuzzy match" by typed characters, backspace.
* Document requester (F4) opens with cursor on the current document.
Docs with unsaved changes are bold, flagged with "*". F2/F3 reorder
documents.
* Tab in Syntax command displays requester of extant syntax recognizers.
* You can now use AutoComplete in command line prompts.
* New SaveAll command saves all modified documents.
* Warns before saving over a file that was modified since the buffer was
last loaded or saved.
* `' joins (), {}, [], and <> as character pairs known to MatchBracket.
* New example macros: aspell, DeleteSOL.
* Add % to special leading characters for re-wrapping Paragraphs.
* WordWrap no longer waits for the cursor to hit the right margin; it wraps
on insertions and deletions now.
* Updates to ruby, erb, python, conf, many other syntax recognizers.
Added these recognizers from the Joe project: ant batch
classic_pascal comment_todo csharp debian differences elixir erlang
git-commit go haml htmlerb ini iptables js json md powershell pp
prolog properties sieve typescript whitespace yaml
2.5 2012-12-24
* New DelTabs flag, function separated from Tabs flag.
* Reformatting with the Paragraph command is now aware of common
leading characters used in comments: > # / * and spaces.
* WordWrap preserves leading characters identically to Paragraph.
2.4 2012-04-10
* New Shift command indents/outdents selected lines.
* Recorded macros preserve comments; indicate other included macros.
* New AtomicUndo command groups changes to be undone/redone as a group
instead of individually.
* For commands that have key bindings, Help displays them.
* New syntax highlighting for texinfo files.
2.3 2011-10-28
* Takes 'SEQ "sequence" KEYCODE' in ~/.ne/.keys to bind character
sequences to key codes.
2.2 2011-01-23
* Now ne is distributed under the GPLv3.
* Added AutoMatchBracket mode to indicate visible matching of
{}, (), [], <> pairs. Mode is 1 (brightness) by default.
* Bookmarks now remember/restore their vertical offsets in the window.
* Bookmark commands take -1/+1 to cycle through your bookmarks;
Use "UnsetBookmark *" to unset all bookmarks.
* New --binary command line option loads next listed file in binary mode.
May appear multiple times on the command line.
* +[N[,M]] command line option moves to N-th line, M-th column of next file loaded.
May appear multiple times on the command line.
* Mention http://groups.google.com/group/niceeditor in splash screen.
* About now displays splash screen in addition to its status bar message.
* In FastGUI mode, when highlighting menu items the cursor is now
positioned on the border of the menu rather than on the first letter
of menu items.
* New "tabs" syntax definition makes tabs visibly distinct from spaces.
* Recognize C99 integer types from <stdint.h> and highlight accordingly.
2.1 2010-03-17
* New commands: KeyCode, DeleteNextWord, DeletePrevWord, AutoComplete,
InsertTab, Tabs, RequestOrder.
* Now we set the syntax when a file is saved with a (different) name.
* Now we correctly highlight control characters in the command line.
* Display request lists by columns ("RequestOrder 1") or rows ("RequestOrder 0").
* Allow window resizing during requests (file selection, help, AutoComplete).
* Sort filenames in dictionary order ("aa", "Ab", "ac", ...).
* Enter in Help places you on the right command in the command list.
* Only prompt once about identical filenames on startup.
* Consider "_" as a word character for word-oriented commands.
* Built-in filename extension to syntax mapping updates:
dtx -> tex, latex -> tex, sage -> python.
* Include new txt2tags syntax file from http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/
* Replace reports the number of replacements (again).
* Display the global directory on startup even if it is not found.
* Default global directory changed from /usr/local/lib/ne to /usr/local/share/ne.
* Aborting an OpenNew doesn't leave you in a new blank document.
* AdjustView now takes optional number of lines or columns to
adjust by; swapped meaning of AdjustView 'C' and 'M' parameters.
* Read .keys and possibly .menus files from NE_GLOBAL_DIR on startup.
* More defensive reading of lines/columns from terminfo to avoid crashes
with XTerm on Mac OS X.
* More portable and robust window-size change detection.
* More parsimonious status-bar updates.
* StatusBar, FastGUI, VerboseMacros, and RequestOrder are not buffer specific, are
only saved in ~/.ne/.default#ap.
* Current syntax name is buffer specific; only saved in autoprefs, not ~/.ne/.default#ap.
* The Amiga is officially no longer supported (well, not exactly an
improvement...).