Releases · joe-editor/joe

• Enhancements

  • Allow notmod in prompt windows: if you set it in a macro, this
    suppresses adding the prompt to the history. Good for keeping
    history clean.

  • Save block filter prompt history in state file.

  • Add parserr_homeonly option: compiler error parser will ignore
    errors from files outside of user's home directory- suppresses
    references to system include files.

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix tags file security vulnerability: Someone could share a tags
    file that tricks a user into executing a shell command by using
    JOE's '!' filename syntax. This fix prevents '!' from working
    when opening files specified in the tags file.

  • Fix some build issues involving deprecated autoconf RETSIGTYPE.

  • Do not use unicode arrow in tooltips for new syntax debugging
    feature

  • Fix a number of minor syntax coloring issues: sh, m4, debian, rust

  • Fix integer global option setting issue

  • Prevent segfault when referring to certain boolean options

  • Fix issue where block filtering does not work if JOE is reading
    from stdin pipe

  • Fix asymmetric ^X / ^Z

  • Fix selection glitches during Ctrl-Shift-Right / -Left

  • Fix compiler error parser: it was not handling "new" (as of 9
    years ago) delimiters from make

Full Changelog: releases/joe-4.7...releases/joe-4.8

• 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

• Enhancements

  • Upgrade to Unicode 10.0.0. Add configure environment variable
    that allows you select Unicode 8.0.0, 9.0.0 or 10.0.0.

  • Install Gnome .desktop files for JOE. This allows you to use JOE
    in GUI "Open With" mouse actions.

  • Support strikeout and double-underline attributes for the few terminal
    emulators that support them. Use "stricken" and "dunderline" in
    the syntax files, or \s and \z in help screens and status line.

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix bug where JOE would sometimes crash when editing shell
    scripts. This was due to an obscure bug in the syntax highlighter:
    'reset' command (used for default state) was incorrectly messing
    with stack.

  • -highlighter_context was missing from many file types, which
    negated some improvements from the previous version.

  • Fixed signed char overflow with old style mouse events in large
    windows

  • Fix bug where path restart (//) was being applied to block filter
    command prompt. Strange things would happen if you had adjacent
    slashes in command arguments.

  • Allow ~ expansion but suppress path restart (//) in compiler error
    parsing.

  • Restore default handling of SIGPIPE and SIGINT for shell commands.
    This fixes an issue where SIGPIPE doesn't terminate a process as
    expected, for example by the head -n 10 in: ^K R !sh -c 'while :;
    do echo y; done' | head -n 10. This issue only occurred in
    read/write to !, JOE already did the right thing for shell windows
    and the filter region through shell command.

  • Improve screen update algorithm so that spaces at the ends of
    lines are always emitted. This allows them to be preserved when
    cutting text with the mouse from a terminal emulator window.

  • Improve efficiency of screen update algorithm: JOE had been
    resetting attributes such as background color before performing
    cursor motions (probably as work around for bugs in old terminal
    emulators). This made screen update slow when there were many
    attributes, as with syntax highlighting and color schemes. It was
    also repeatedly emitting ESC [ K.

  • Switch JOE to issue scrolling commands, even at high baud rates
    (before this, JOE issued scrolling commands only at 19200 and
    below because it used to be that simple screen refresh was faster
    than scrolling in terminal emulators. But this is no longer true
    with complex screens involving color schemes, unicode and
    highlighting).

• Windows version

  • Fix file access checks. Inaccessible files due to ACL's weren't
    correctly detected. This was a regression in 4.5.

  • Check the correct (Windows) path in the home directory for color
    schemes. This was not re-implemented properly in 4.5.

• Enhancements

  • Upgrade to Unicode 10.0.0. Add configure environment variable
    that allows you select Unicode 8.0.0, 9.0.0 or 10.0.0.

  • Install Gnome .desktop files for JOE. This allows you to use JOE
    in GUI "Open With" mouse actions.

  • Support strikeout and double-underline attributes for the few terminal
    emulators that support them. Use "stricken" and "dunderline" in
    the syntax files, or \s and \z in help screens and status line.

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix bug where JOE would sometimes crash when editing shell
    scripts. This was due to an obscure bug in the syntax highlighter:
    'reset' command (used for default state) was incorrectly messing
    with stack.

  • -highlighter_context was missing from many file types, which
    negated some improvements from the previous version.

  • Fixed signed char overflow with old style mouse events in large
    windows

  • Fix bug where path restart (//) was being applied to block filter
    command prompt. Strange things would happen if you had adjacent
    slashes in command arguments.

  • Allow ~ expansion but suppress path restart (//) in compiler error
    parsing.

  • Restore default handling of SIGPIPE and SIGINT for shell commands.
    This fixes an issue where SIGPIPE doesn't terminate a process as
    expected, for example by the head -n 10 in: ^K R !sh -c 'while :;
    do echo y; done' | head -n 10. This issue only occurred in
    read/write to !, JOE already did the right thing for shell windows
    and the filter region through shell command.

  • Improve screen update algorithm so that spaces at the ends of
    lines are always emitted. This allows them to be preserved when
    cutting text with the mouse from a terminal emulator window.

  • Improve efficiency of screen update algorithm: JOE had been
    resetting attributes such as background color before performing
    cursor motions (probably as work around for bugs in old terminal
    emulators). This made screen update slow when there were many
    attributes, as with syntax highlighting and color schemes. It was
    also repeatedly emitting ESC [ K.

  • Switch JOE to issue scrolling commands, even at high baud rates
    (before this, JOE issued scrolling commands only at 19200 and
    below because it used to be that simple screen refresh was faster
    than scrolling in terminal emulators. But this is no longer true
    with complex screens involving color schemes, unicode and
    highlighting).

• Enhancements

  • New color scheme feature, which can be accessed with ^T S or
    by setting the -colors option.

  • 24-bit color support
    can be enabled by setting the COLORTERM environment variable to
    truecolor or 24bit.

  • Several schemes included in-the-box:

    • gruvbox by Pavel Pertsev

    • ir_black by Todd Werth

    • molokai by Tomas Restrepo

    • solarized by Ethan Schoonover

    • wombat by Lars H. Nielsen

    • xoria by Dmitriy Y. Zotikov

    • zenburn by Jani Nurminen

  • The current line can be highlighted by pressing ^T U or by
    enabling the -hiline option.

  • The gutter containing line numbers has a dynamic size based on the
    length of the file, rather than a fixed size of 10.

  • Updated all language syntax files to use comment_todo and
    string/comment contexts where appropriate.

  • Now pass character which invoked a macro to each macro step and
    call. If a macro step happens to be the 'type' command, the
    character which invoked the macro will be typed in. For example,
    this macro will type three 'X's. Before this change you got three
    NULs.

    type,type,type X

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix exsave: (^K ^X) should close file when a block is present in
    the window, and the file is unmodified (regression from ^C change
    in 4.2).

  • Fix regex assertions: they were not working because the character
    before the search position was not being loaded.

  • For jmacs: ^Q^J now again inserts \n in the string replace prompt.
    This broke beginning with JOE 4.0.

  • Don't try to open files for writing to check file access. This
    behaves better on unionfs mounts.

  • Fix stray blocks created after find/replace.

• Windows version

  • Fix inability to set indent step to 1 from menu.

  • Add support for math functions, fix engineering display.

  • Fix backslash escapes in find/replace.

  • Support italicized text.

• Enhancements

  • New color scheme feature, which can be accessed with ^T S or
    by setting the -colors option.

  • 24-bit color support
    can be enabled by setting the COLORTERM environment variable to
    truecolor or 24bit.

  • Several schemes included in-the-box:

    • gruvbox by Pavel Pertsev

    • ir_black by Todd Werth

    • molokai by Tomas Restrepo

    • solarized by Ethan Schoonover

    • wombat by Lars H. Nielsen

    • xoria by Dmitriy Y. Zotikov

    • zenburn by Jani Nurminen

  • The current line can be highlighted by pressing ^T U or by
    enabling the -hiline option.

  • The gutter containing line numbers has a dynamic size based on the
    length of the file, rather than a fixed size of 10.

  • Updated all language syntax files to use comment_todo and
    string/comment contexts where appropriate.

  • Now pass character which invoked a macro to each macro step and
    call. If a macro step happens to be the 'type' command, the
    character which invoked the macro will be typed in. For example,
    this macro will type three 'X's. Before this change you got three
    NULs.

    type,type,type X

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix exsave: (^K ^X) should close file when a block is present in
    the window, and the file is unmodified (regression from ^C change
    in 4.2).

  • Fix regex assertions: they were not working because the character
    before the search position was not being loaded.

  • For jmacs: ^Q^J now again inserts \n in the string replace prompt.
    This broke beginning with JOE 4.0.

  • Don't try to open files for writing to check file access. This
    behaves better on unionfs mounts.

  • Fix stray blocks created after find/replace.

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix segfault due to buffer overrun. This happens if a line
    with many backslashes appears in the status line context display.

  • Fix jmacs: ^X ^F and ^X ^B were not working

  • Build fixes for Solaris

  • Improve php highlighter: allow numbers in substitution variable names

  • Unicode tweak: treat private use characters (Co) as printable

  • Dockerfile highlighter: Add Docker new commands from 1.12,
    mark bad strings in arrays

  • Fix loading external charmaps

• Windows version

  • Fix crashing bug when using incremental search

• Bugs fixed

  • Fix segfault due to buffer overrun. This happens if a line
    with many backslashes appears in the status line context display.

  • Fix jmacs: ^X ^F and ^X ^B were not working

  • Build fixes for Solaris

  • Improve php highlighter: allow numbers in substitution variable names

  • Unicode tweak: treat private use characters (Co) as printable

  • Dockerfile highlighter: Add Docker new commands from 1.12,
    mark bad strings in arrays

  • Fix loading external charmaps

• Bugs fixed

  • Fixed a missed merge that prevented some options menu items from
    being changed (tab width, tab char, etc).

  • Fixed bugs updating the title bar.

  • Minor memory leak/performance fix in subprocess communication.

  • (from newer version) Fix segfault due to buffer overrun. This
    happens if you a line with many backslashes appears in the status
    line context display.

• Enhancements

  • Improve memory usage by shrinking buffer header size and
    highlighter state size.

  • Improve performance of status line context display (which shows
    the first line of the function that the cursor is currently in).
    This feature was making JOE very slow on extremely large files with
    auto indent enabled (typically JSON or XML data files). Now
    the syntax highlighter computes the context display (using a new
    syntax named context.jsf).

  • Add a mode 'title' to enable or disable the status line context
    display (previously autoindent mode was overloaded to do this).

  • Disable syntax highlighting and context display in very large
    files

  • Force more appropriate modes when we enter hex dump display:
    enable overtype, disable autoindent, wordwrap, ansi, picture.

  • Handle middle mouse button in "joe -mouse" mode (before it did
    nothing). It's treated as paste (copy region to mouse) as
    expected. (patch from Petr Olsak).

• Bugs fixed

  • Do not kill region highlighting during incremental search (patch
    from Petr Olsak).

  • Negative numbers were not being recognized in blocks

  • PgUp/PgDn would try to scroll menu if the window above is a menu
    (it should do this only for completion menus associated with
    prompts)

  • Use 'LC_ALL=C sed' to get JOE to compile in OS X.

  • Forward direction delimiter matching where the delimiters do
    not begin with special characters (for example in Verilog
    "begin" / "end") was not working.

  • Get mouse to work in menus: this broke in 4.1

  • Character classes with ranges were not working for UTF-8 (as in \[a-z])

  • Apply spec highlighting to .spec files

  • Gracefully handle short terminals: fix segfaults which occur when
    trying to shrink terminal while many windows are on the screen or
    while turning on help with a short terminal. Fix similar bugs
    involving the skiptop option. JOE now works even if the terminal
    height is only one line.

• Enhancements

  • Improve memory usage by shrinking buffer header size and
    highlighter state size.

  • Improve performance of status line context display (which shows
    the first line of the function that the cursor is currently in).
    This feature was making JOE very slow on extremely large files with
    auto indent enabled (typically JSON or XML data files). Now
    the syntax highlighter computes the context display (using a new
    syntax named context.jsf).

  • Add a mode 'title' to enable or disable the status line context
    display (previously autoindent mode was overloaded to do this).

  • Disable syntax highlighting and context display in very large
    files

  • Force more appropriate modes when we enter hex dump display:
    enable overtype, disable autoindent, wordwrap, ansi, picture.

  • Handle middle mouse button in "joe -mouse" mode (before it did
    nothing). It's treated as paste (copy region to mouse) as
    expected. (patch from Petr Olsak).

• Bugs fixed

  • Do not kill region highlighting during incremental search (patch
    from Petr Olsak).

  • Negative numbers were not being recognized in blocks

  • PgUp/PgDn would try to scroll menu if the window above is a menu
    (it should do this only for completion menus associated with
    prompts)

  • Use 'LC_ALL=C sed' to get JOE to compile in OS X.

  • Forward direction delimiter matching where the delimiters do
    not begin with special characters (for example in Verilog
    "begin" / "end") was not working.

  • Get mouse to work in menus: this broke in 4.1

  • Character classes with ranges were not working for UTF-8 (as in \[a-z])

  • Apply spec highlighting to .spec files

  • Gracefully handle short terminals: fix segfaults which occur when
    trying to shrink terminal while many windows are on the screen or
    while turning on help with a short terminal. Fix similar bugs
    involving the skiptop option. JOE now works even if the terminal
    height is only one line.