From: Mark Edel <edel@fnal.gov>
Subject: NEdit 5.0.2 - modern GUI-style text editor
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 1998 12:03:37 GMT

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NEdit Version 5.0.2 is now available on ftp.fnal.gov.

NEdit is a text editor for X-Windows based systems featuring a high quality
graphical user interface, state-of-the-art syntax highlighting, rectangular
selection, and probably the best mouse-interactivity of any Unix text editor.
For more information see the NEdit web page at:

   http://www-pat.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html

Version 5.0.2 is a minor bug-fix release (see below).  NEdit is free.  You
can download pre-built executables for most Unix and VMS systems, as well as
sources and contributed software from:

   ftp://ftp.fnal.gov/pub/nedit/v5_0_2/


New Features in 5.0.2:

 - Word-selection (double click) can be used to select ranges of delimiters.
 
 - New built-in macro variables: $line, $column, and $modified.
 
 - Smart-indent mode available for Python language.
   
 - Minor improvements in default highlight pattern sets for NEdit Macros,
   X Resources, and Sh/Ksh/Bash.
 
 
Bug Fixes in 5.0.2:

 - -import did not work as advertised in 5.0.1.  When used, it re-set a
   number of preferences back to default values.  Could also potentially
   cause a crash.

 - Macro -> Repeat crashes on some systems.
 
 - Mouse state can get "stuck" on Alpha-based systems.
 
 - Combination of auto-wrap, auto-indent, and unbreakable lines extending
   the width of the window, caused nedit to unnecessarily insert blank lines.

 - Incorrect case-insensitive comparison in character sets > 128 bits.
 
 - In by-word drag-selection (double click then drag) when begun in the
   middle of a whitespace selection, anchor would revert to original cursor
   position rather than maintaining the entire whitespace block.
   
 - Language mode names containing spaces could not be used in language
   sensitive user-defined menu items.
   
 - New windows did not always see existing learn/replay sequence, recorded
   before the window was created.
   
 - Possible crash in search_string and search_window macros, when used with
   long search strings.
 
 - Possible crash in get_selection("any") macro.
 
 - Under Solaris, crashes on window opening, file dialog, and language mode
   selection, when user-defined sub-menus were used.
   
 - Filenames containing spaces could cause the .neditdb file to become
   unreadable.
   
 - Escape key could not be used to cancel file-selection dialogs when the
   file list had keyboard focus (which it almost always does).

- -- Mark Edel



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