hello -- I've just put vile 9.7 up for ftp at: http://invisible-island.net/vile/ ftp://invisible-island.net/vile/vile-9.7.tgz and it is mirrored at ftp://ftp.phred.org./pub/vile/vile-9.7.tgz PC binaries are also available for DOS and WinNT. Vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi. It has extended capabilities in many areas, including: multi-file editing and viewing, mouse support, infinite undo, additional operators, rectangular operations. Vile has an optional Perl interface for UNIX and NT. It can also be built as "xvile", which is fully X-aware, or "winvile" for Win32, with scrollbars, menus, etc. It runs under VMS, BeOS, QNX, OS/2, DOS, Win95 or NT. Binaries for some PC operating systems are available. (OS/2 is currently native or EMX console mode port, NT is both console and GUI). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights since 9.6: + Bug fixes, lots. See the CHANGES file for details. General changes =============== + modify prompt for new mode value to consistently show the mode's full name. + modify wrapmargin mode to use negative values as a count from the left of the screen. + modify behavior of ":ww!" to act like ":w!", allowing it to write all files. + trim trailing blanks from text handled in modelines in case there was a ^M. + modify treatment of ":setl dos" to behave the same as ":set-dos". That makes it possible to put a "vile:dos" in a modeline and make vile convert the line-endings. + flush the standard output before writing version message using the standard error, in case there was some output pending. + modify curses-driver to avoid a curses-refresh (repainting the whole screen) between a shell command and the "Press return to continue" message. + improved scripting, making it simpler to save a boolean mode-value in a variable and restore it by assignment. Locale Improvements =================== + improve locale initialization, checking if there is no installed narrow locale corresponding to the given (wide) locale. In that case, default to either ISO-8859-1 or ASCII, depending on whether there was actually a wide locale whose encoding is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, or neither. + force the [Printable Chars] buffer to use file-encoding=8bit, makes it display consistently legal codes in the second column. + make ISO-8859-1 data display consistently in UTF-8 buffer as "\?xx". + provide workaround for systems without nl_langinfo(CODESET)). + make transpose-characters work for wide-characters. + make "~" (flip-character) and related case-conversion work for Unicode in 0..255 range. New Commands ============ none New Modes ========= + modify mktbls to allow special-case alias for modes which have no convenient abbreviation. + add "fk" alias for file-encoding mode. + add a "locale" value for file-encoding, use that as the default. New Variables and Functions =========================== + add $buf-encoding symbol, to show the actual encoding used by the current buffer vs the file-encoding which is one of vile's internal names such as "8bit" or "locale". Syntax Filters ============== + modify parsing of keyword files to accept an empty parameter for "abbrev" and "brief", to disable the "*" and "?" feature. + remove obsolete lex-filters for perl and ruby (only the C versions have been supported). + improved lisp filter: + change class color of parentheses to "Action" to make them easier to distinguish from "String". + color binary, octal and hexadecimal constants, as well as parse the "#\" patterns. + improved perl syntax filter: + make perlpod sections more readable by highlighting the control lines. + add double-quote to quote-delimitors. + show interpreted symbols in double-quoted regular expressions. + if "/e" modifier is set for regular expression, show interpreted symbols for that. + show regular expression modifiers in keyword-attribute, not string + color &foo as a variable. + color both class and member in variables such as $foo::bar + add ".t" to perlmode, using $mode-pathname + improved ruby syntax filter: + match keywords containing '!' '?' and '=' depending on the context. + remove unmatchable characters from the list of those matched following $. + change the instance variable matching to @@?{KEYWORD} instead of @+{KEYWORD}. + highlight constants (keywords beginning with a capital) with the Type attribute. + highlight binary integers (such as 0b10101). + disable "*" and "?" abbreviation feature in ruby.key, allowing match of "defined?", etc. Other improvements to filters: + make vile's symbol-tables accessible to vilemode in winvile. + minor improvement to vbmode's fence-if to ignore lines with continuations. + improve here-document parsing in sh-filt.l to work with "words" which contain blanks. Other improvements to majormodes ================================ + strip redundant "mode" from majormode names, avoiding the potential for creating foomodemode when the script says define-majormode foomode + remove ".scm" from c-suffixes pattern. + add schememode. X11 changes =========== + update input-method code, from xterm. + add xvile resource setting "openIm" to control whether it tries to open input-method. + improved handling of runtime X errors, xvile will attempt to save buffers. Win32 changes ============= + simplify wvlwrap.exe by disabling globbing temporarily. This allows opening files whose names contain square brackets. + suppress part of wildcard expansion in call to expand_wild_args(), e.g., for command-line of winvile, since that interferes with reading files whose names contain square brackets. VMS changes =========== none Other portability ================= + improve configure checks for iconv. Performance =========== none