gmane.org.netlabs.nepmd.devel

advanced marking

Andy Willis — 2011-11-25T22:32:34

Is advanced marking working in the current repository?
It was not working for me with the 113 version I had downloaded so I 
built from trunk and it is not working for me either.  EPM itself it 
works fine but not in nepmd.  By advanced marking I am referring to 
only marking the area of text that the mouse passes over and not the 
entire line (CUA).  I am not sure if it is something on my system or 
if it is broken.  
Andy

After reworking keysets: Items to do until release

Andreas Schnellbacher — 2011-07-29T18:15:56

Hi,

there was an additional delay before the release. I have to explain,
why.


1) I decided that changing from ETK-defined keys (mixed with accel
keys) to PM accel keys should be done at first. Now we're on PM accel
keys only.

The benefits:

   o  Redefining keys was made simple.
   o  CUA keys (formerly Mozilla keys) was improved.
   o  Undo was completely redefined and (hopefully) fixed.
   o  The totally broken key recording was completely redefined
      and works now for accel key def cmds and also for menu
      commands. (Finally - note that this is just a side effect
      of redefining the key defs!)
   o  For the future: Code exists to query the defined keys for a
      command, so the part of a menu item that describes a key def
      can be defined dynamically.

It was a lot of work. It takes also a lot of time, because other
features have to be redefined as well: keysets for modes, locate
commands (cursor pos. works different with ETK-defined keys), ...

That is all done, except for

   o  th

NEPMD on Subversion

Andreas Schnellbacher — 2011-05-16T21:15:04

Hi,

in the last days, Adrian has converted the project to svn.

There's also a trac Wiki page available:

   http://svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/wiki/WikiStart

Any opinions on which bugtracker to use?

I've already committed my code that replaces the ETK keyset defs with
accelerator defs. Included is also a fixed key recording, undo, keyset
switching and dynamic menu text parts.

   http://svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/changeset/2415

See also the timeline:

   http://svn.netlabs.org/nepmd/timeline

So far, I and John Small have write access to svn.

Mode- directory

John Small — 2011-04-29T23:45:59

In working on my Perl mode problem, I decided to build and install the latest
source. I found the all the subdirectories directories in %NEPMD_USERDIR%\mode
were moved to a new %NEPMD_USERDIR%\mode-2011-04-29.

I can understand why this might be done -- old customizations may interfere
with or override the "new and improved" mode files in the new version of NEPMD.

But doesn't this have the effect of disabling all the previous customizations
in the new installation? What if some or even all of the "new" modes are not
really new? Then some or all of the old customizations under
%NEPMD_USERDIR%\mode would probably still be useful to the user?

I went back and noticed that there is mention of this in one paragraph of one
of the readme pages during the start of the installation. And can't seem to
find any mention of it in the INF files. I think this should be documented
better both during the installation and in the INF files.

And what would you think of a REXX program to facilitate merging the old
customizatio

Perl mode

John Small — 2011-04-29T11:54:41

I have had occasion to learn Perl (at a very rudimentary level). And of course
I have been using NEPMD as my editor. 

I have found some shortcomings in NEPMD's Perl mode:
1) The single line comment character, '#', is not a comment character if it is
preceded by a '$'.  And this '$#" is fairly commonly used. So NEPMD is
considering the '#' in '$#' as the start of a comment when it should not. I
could probably put up with the mis-highlighted text. But this also breaks the
bracket-balancing code which I use quite often.

2) Double quoted strings are rendered as regular text and not as a color-coded
literal.

I would like to try to fix these and toward that end I have some questions:

1) Where is the current source code for NEPMD? I did a CVS CHECKOUT this
morning and I only got a handful of new files. It is hard to believe that in
the few years it has been since my last checkout that only a handful of files
have been changed.

2) Is it possible to define an escape character for a single line comment
character?

Alfredo il grande

Gabriele Gamba — 2011-03-23T21:04:58

Libretti A.36

Beta release plans

Andreas Schnellbacher — 2010-11-21T21:39:01

Hi,

after all that long time I plan to release a beta version in the next
weeks. Almost all major bugs from my todo list are fixed now. The most
recent changes are now tested and still have to be uploaded to CVS.

It looks like I will not find the time to implement Greg's changes,
mainly because they base on a quite old NEPMD version. You may note
that I have implemented a few of them already, in order to ease future
synchronization.

Depending on the time I'll find in the future for this project, I'll
create a documentation or not.

IMO EPM (with the NEPMD additions) is still the best freely available
text editor for OS/2, except Vim and Emacs, of course. ;-) That will
probably change, if someone will port KDE and then Kate. The both
available QT4 text editors still have much less features than EPM.
Note that the NEPMD version of EPM has support for Gnu recode since
a long time. Yes, documentation sucks. ;-)

Andreas

warpin ----- batteries not included

Greg Jarvis — 2009-11-17T03:01:53

on my next beta of epm, a generalized code completion (syntax expansion)
is to simply coding. Modes DTD,XML,PYTHON & WARPIN  will be in it. I
notice in wic.inf that there is  no mention of tags <CINCLUDE> &
<TINCLUDE> nor % delimiter.

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Beta 7d released

Greg Jarvis — 2009-10-14T03:32:53

I am please to anounce that beta 7d of myepm and a NEPMD build are on
my web page http://www3.sympatico.ca/gjarviseng/epm

Also get samples.zip which contains a sample for each mode.
Also get demo which demonstrates new features.


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Plans for the long overdue release

Andreas Schnellbacher — 2009-08-13T20:47:02

Hi,

in the previous thread I wrote that I plan to ship v1.15 in October,
hopefully. You my ask "Why not now?", so here's my todo list, that
should put some light on the current status:

o  Suppress msg when shadow object can't be created during install.
   (This requires to move, maybe partly, object creation from WarpIN
   to REXX.)

o  Add some docs about how to configure several items. (There's
   already some doc in the macro files, at least add that to the
   user's inf file.)

o  Improve notification after moved user user files by the
   installation.

o  Improve notification after checked mode files.

o  Make color palette configuration work via reworked COLORS.ERX
   backend (almost done).

o  Set colors and assocs during the installation.

The following items have a lower priority and shouldn't delay the
release:

o  Fix bin\epmenv.cmd.

o  Minor improvements of some mode files, maybe add Greg's mode
   extensions.

o  Add an EpmFromCd.cmd file to prepare the env and start EPM from an
   eCS boot C