joe-editor/joe releases/joe-4.7

JOE 4.7

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• Enhancements

  • Visual debugging of syntax files (^T More options / debug
    options). When enabled, tool tips show the highlighter state when
    you hover over any character on the screen.

  • Simplified hex edit / binary mode: JOE now assumes that file is
    binary if comma suffix "filename,START,SIZE" is used. Use
    "filename,0" as shorthand for "--guess_utf16 --guess_utf8
    -encoding ascii -hex filename".

  • JOE now has the full set of navigation and edit keys
    (Ctrl-arrow selection has changed):
    Ctrl-left, Ctrl-right: go to previous or next word
    Ctrl-up, Ctrl-down: scroll by one line
    Ctrl-Del, Shift-Del: Cut selection or delete word or line
    (Del remains delete character, and Ins remains insert space)
    Shift-arrow: select by line or character
    Shift-PgUp, Shift-PgDn: select by page
    Shift-Home, Shift-End: select to beginning or end of line
    Ctrl-Shift-left, Ctrl-Shift-right: select by words
    Ctrl-Shift-up, Ctrl-Shift-down: select by paragraphs

  • JOE now follows XDG Base Directory Standard:
    Put state file in ~/.local/state/joe/ instead of ~/.joe_state
    Put config and rc files in ~/.config/joe/ instead of ~/.joe
    (but JOE will find the files in the old places as well)

  • Visible whitespace mode: option to subtly display tabs, spaces and
    newlines

  • Improve indent shift: preserve original whitespace

  • Upgrade to Unicode 17.0.0. Configure script variable allows
    you to select Unicode 8.0.0, 9.0.0, 10.0.0, 13.0.0, 15.0.0,
    15.1.0, 16.0.0 or 17.0.0

  • Consider 'Tc' terminfo flag when determining whether a terminal supports 24-bit color

  • Improved or added highlighters for: Verilog, SystemVerilog, C,
    C++, PHP, Markdown, Python, Debian

  • -purify now cleans excess whitespace instead of no-opping

  • Improve shell script recognition (contributed by Darren Salt)

  • -keepup produces fewer updates during mouse input and similar

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix destructive multi-line bracketed paste: pasting multi-line input was destructive to pre-existing text

  • Bracketed paste now counts as a single change for undo

  • Fix screen corruption when pasting with line-numbers activated

  • Fix macOS build and C99 correctness

  • Fix a number of bugs involved with piping data into JOE:

    • Make piping into JOE binary clean. For example, in: "echo -e 'a\0b' | joe" the NUL was missing.

    • Fix bug where 'New File' was displayed in "echo hi | joe -"

    • Fix bug where closing the copying process didn't cause the other end of the pipe feeding stdin from seeing SIGPIPE.

    • Fix bug where window resize will cause copying process to stop (needed to retry on EINTR).

  • Revert ^K Q behavior (by popular demand!)

  • Improve localized decimal point handling in calculator

  • Fix not "not changed" undo record bug after saving file

  • Fix jmacs help keybindings (contributed by Peter Salvi)

  • Fix ^G to handle multiple #elifs correctly

Full Changelog: releases/joe-4.6...releases/joe-4.7