jed v0.99-9 available

Version B0.99-9 of the jed programmer’s editor is now available.
Jed provides emulations for the following editors: Emacs, VAX/VMS
EDT, Wordstar, Brief, and Borland’s IDE. An image of the editor
running in an xterm that illustrates its color syntax highlighting,
folding, and drop-down menu abilities is available from http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/images/jed1.gif.
Additional information about jed may be obtained from http://www.s-lang.org and http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/jed.html.

The complete distribution (source code and executables) may be
obtained from

ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/v0.99

and should appear within a day at the following mirrors:

ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/unix/misc/slang

ftp://ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de/pub/unix/editors/jed

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/slang/

Precompiled Redhat binaries in rpm format for Linux are
available from http://cpbotha.net/jedstuff/.

The distribution comes in two forms:

1. A compressed .tar file that contains the complete source
   distribution for Unix, VMS, OS/2, MSDOS, and win32.
2. A zip file that for MSDOS, windows 9X, and NT systems. This
   file contains pre-compiled executables and everything needed to run
   it on these systems. However, since it does not contain any source
   code, you will need to get the tar file if you intend to compile it
   yourself.

Although version B0.99 is considered to be a beta version, it
appears to be very stable with no significant problems reported in
the B0.99 series. The only reason it is beta code is that I do not
feel that it has been tested enough on non-Unix systems; however,
under Unix it has been extensively tested (for nearly 2 years) and
is solid (evidence is this is that most of the changes affected the
win32 port).

You will need slang 1.3.7 or greater to compile this version.
The latest version of slang is 1.3.9. The slang source code is also
available in the ftp directories.

Changes since B0.99-8 (The complete list of changes is available
from the ftp site in changes.txt):

1. win32: define_color intrinsic was not working properly because
   of an old-style definition.
2. win32: g32shell.exe performs globbing on command line arguments
   but w32shell.exe does not. To use the globbing shell, put
   `W32shell_Perform_Globbing=1;’ in your jed.rc file.
3. win32.c: bug in sys_findnext corrected.
4. problem with enable_menu_keys on win32 fixed.
5. doc/script.txt updated.
6. QNX specific patches from SvOlli smoll@qnx.de.
7. Xjed: fgKeyword2 and bgKeyword2 resource settings added.
8. idl.sl: ide_window_down typo corrected (Matthew Gabeler-Lee
   msg2@po.cwru.edu).
9. win32 Borland specific patches from John Skilleter john@skilleter.freeserve.co.uk.
10. Updated ide.sl mode from Guido Gonzato guido@ibogeo.df.unibo.it.
11. install targets rewritten to work around limitations of the
    autoconf install script.
12. Improved detection of fold marks.
13. win32 patch involving read-only files from John Skilleter
    john.Skilleter@pace.co.uk.
14. update_sans_update_hook intrinsic added.
15. win32: bug involve handling of ALTGR fixed. In addition,
    several other changes were made to the win32 keyboard code to allow
    ^G to interrupt a slang procedure, e.g., while(1);
16. If an interactive seach finds a match on a hidden line, e.g.,
    one in a fold, then the line will be made momentarily visible.

—
John E. Davis
617-258-8119
http://space.mit.edu/~davis
Center for Space Research/AXAF Science Center
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307