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JEDIT 4.2 VERSION HISTORY

{{{ Version 4.2pre14

Thanks to Gerd Knops, Ollie Rutherfurd, Paul Libbrecht and Rob Watson
for contributing to this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous Changes

- jEditLauncher no longer included due to a large number of bugs, and
  the fact that it is unmaintained.

- Join Lines (C+j) now inserts a space between joined lines.

- Added some global abbreviations for inserting Greek letters and
  various math symbols (Paul Libbrecht).

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- PL/I syntax highlighting (Rob Watson).

- Embperl syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- reStructuredText syntax highligting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fix exceptions being thrown if the text area has a negative height.

- "File Changed Since Save" warning on Reload now has the buffer name,
  to make it clear which buffer is being reloaded.

- Abbreviations are now loaded/saved using the UTF8 encoding, making
  them more friendly towards international characters.

- Fix a few problems (mainly not closing streams after exceptions, and
  unused fields/methods) found by the FindBugs tool.

- Fix possible ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in
  DisplayManager.hideLineRange() when narrowing to folds in
  indent-folded buffers.

- Fix for window geometry load/save on multiple monitor setups
  (Gerd Knops).

- If a plugin creates an ActionSet with a null label (which would be a
  bug in the plugin), the Shortcuts option pane didn't work.

- The folding triangles in the gutter were not always being repainted
  when using indent folding.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre13

Thanks to Magnus Henriksson, Nicholas O'Leary, Ollie Rutherfurd and
Patrick Tingen for contributing to this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous Changes

- During auto-save, ~/.jedit/perspective.xml is only written if files
  were opened or closed or views were split or unsplit since the last
  time it was auto-saved.

- Greedy_Backspace, _Left and _Right macros (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated Progress syntax highlighting (Patrick Tingen).

- Zope Page Template syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Updated XSLT syntax highlighting (Magnus Henriksson).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fix ClassCastException when changing kill ring size.

- QuickNotepad plugin didn't compile.

- jEdit didn't compile with jikes due to overly pedantic inner class
  semantics.

- Pressing "Reload" after "Select All" in the files changed dialog
  didn't work (Nicholas O'Leary).

- Fix a problem where sometimes after loading, only the first line of a
  file would be visible.

- PropertyManager.getProperties() did not include site properties.

- When creating a new file, the horizontal scroll bar was not updated
  correctly.

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- A few methods added to JEditTextArea for Gestures plugin:

  isRightClickPopupEnabled()
  setRightClickPopupEnabled(boolean)
  handlePopupTrigger(MouseEvent)

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre12

Thanks to Lionel Fiol, Nicholas O'Leary, Ollie Rutherfurd and
Thomas Alspaugh for contributing to this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous Changes

- The Buffer Options and Global Options->Editing panes no longer allow
  setting the wrap mode to 'soft' with a wrap margin of zero. Previously
  this was allowed, but did nothing since the feature was removed in
  4.2.

- DELETE key works with the tall caret now.

- Macros in the user macros directory now override macros in the system
  macro directory.

- Added 'Next Dirty Buffer' and 'Insert Selection' macros
  (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Pressing A+DOWN in a history text field now shows the field's popup
  menu (Joerg Spieler).

- Added "Mode Switcher" macro (Nicholas O'Leary).

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated BibTeX and LaTeX syntax highlighting (Thomas Alspaugh).

- PHP mode now recognizes <script language="PHP">...</script>.

- Updated Omnimark syntax highlighting (Lionel Fiol).

- Added RTF syntax highlighting (Lionel Fiol).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed a possible deadlock on startup when loading the SQL plugin. In
  fact this would happen with any plugin that attempted to load icons
  from its class initializer.

- Fixed NullPointerException when unloading a plugin which has at least
  one floating window that is not docked.

- Fixed problems immediately after changing the font size due to a
  missing recalculateLastPhysicalLine() call.

- Fixed NullPointerException in PluginJAR on startup if settings
  directory can not be written to.

- File->Save All would ask for confirmation even if "Confirm Save All
  Buffers" was switched off.

- Fixed off-by-one error in Edit->Word Count if the selection ended with
  whitespace.

- Text area's horizontal scroll did not update when the text area was
  resized.

- jEdit.getActiveView() would return null if the current view was
  closed, and another view was not focused. This would break the
  edit server if -reuseview was specified.

- Fixed NullPointerException from syntax highlighting code when buffer
  switching APIs were called in a certain sequence.

- Fixed exception when clicking in one-line-high text area.

- Fixed problems with rectangular selections when changes were being
  made before the selection in the buffer.

- Disabling the status bar in the Status Bar option pane did not disable
  the "Show clock" option.

- Scrolling with the keyboard did not update the horizontal scroll bar.

- Control-clicking in a read-only buffer would beep, even if the click
  location was not beyond the end of a line.

- Fix possible deadlock when calling VFSManager.waitForRequests() from
  an EditBus message handler for BufferUpdate.CREATED or
  EditPaneUpdate.BUFFER_CHANGED.

- The new PropertyManager in pre10 broke handling of site properties;
  they would be overriden by plugin properties, which is not intended
  behavior.

- QuickNotepad was not saving files with the correct encoding.

- Filename completion on backspace was not disabled in the "Save As"
  dialog box, as intended.

- Minor fix to VHDL syntax highlighting.

- Kill ring was not being loaded properly; the text entries were loaded
  but the count was never incremented, so the "Paste Deleted" dialog
  would always be blank after a jEdit restart.

- Fixed a possible deadlock when unloading the ProjectViewer plugin.

- Workaround for A+PAGE_UP/PAGE_DOWN inserting garbage in the text area
  on Windows.

- Fix ClassCastException when changing edit mode in Buffer Options
  dialog box.

- A zero-length file did not open with the default line separator, but
  rather the Unix line separator.

- jEdit did not start if the font size was set to zero.

- Changing the font size did not update the font in open activity log
  windows.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre11

This release fixes a show-stopper bug in pre10. The JAR file included in
the installer was not completely up-to-date, and it had a property file
lossage bug.

Note that if you compiled from source, you will not see this problem.

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre10

Thanks to Barry Carr, Brad Mace, Ken Turner, Nahuel Foronda,
Ollie Rutherfurd, Trevor Harmon and Thomas Galvin for contributing to
this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous

- Added "Create Constructor" macro, updated "Make Get and Set Methods"
  and "Get Class Name" macros (Thomas Galvin).

- It is now possible to customize the metal look and feel fonts under
  JDK 1.5.

- Page Up/Page Down restored to jEdit 4.1 behavior: when they are
  invoked at the beginning/end of the buffer, the caret is moved to
  the beginning/end, instead of staying at its current position.

- File system browser now uses locale's short date format, not a
  hard-coded DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Many macros updated, new Keywords_to_Uppercase.bsh,
  Emacs_Next_Line.bsh, Emacs_Previous_Line.bsh, Buffer_Switcher.bsh,
  Delete_Current.bsh, Glob_Close.bsh, Reverse_Lines.bsh,
  Single_Space_Buffer.bsh macros added (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Documentation updates.

- Status bar clock now uses locale's short time format, instead of a
  hardcoded format.

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated Pascal syntax highlighting (Barry Carr).

- Updated ActionScript syntax highlighting (Nahuel Foronda).

- Updated SDL/PR syntax highlighting (Ken Turner).

- Added CVS and Subversion commit info syntax highlighting
  (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Added S# syntax highlighting (Barry Carr).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed another NullPointerException in the file system browser when
  using VFS's that do not set the VFS.DirectoryEntry.symlinkPath field.

- Actually fix the MacOS plugin for the latest MRJ update.

- Fix status bar problem with GTK look and feel if memory indicator is
  enabled.

- Fixed exception with auto indent (Brad Mace).

- jEdit didn't compile with Sun's JDK 1.5 beta (Trevor Harmon).

- "Find Next" didn't work with directory searches where the paths
  contained symbolic links.

- Fixed highlighting of verbatim environments in LaTeX files.

- Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when invoking "Expand Fold"
  outside of a narrowed range.

- Fixed problem where any dialogs boxes shown by the search and replace
  code would force the search and replace dialog to be shown on OS X.

- Fixed a performance regression since 4.2pre7 on MacOS X.

- More deep indent fixes (Brad Mace).

- The JARClassLoader's loadClass() method was not synchronized -- this
  problem has been there for ages!

- Fixed backspace key in file name field of file dialogs on Java 1.5.

- Fixed exception when control-clicking beyond the end of a line in a
  read-only buffer.

- Fixed key binding conflict on OS X; command-drag would both activate
  rectangular selection and quick copy. This has been resolved and now
  quick copy is activated with an option-drag.

- The order of the elements in the recent file list was being reversed
  each time jEdit was restarted if 'sort recent files' was switched off.

- PluginJAR.generateCache() didn't correctly handle the case where a
  plugin JAR file had an actions.xml but no core class.

- Unloading a plugin did not remove the buttons for its docked windows.

- The "Rescan Macros" command did not update the actions list in the
  action bar.

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- Added "optional dependencies". An optional dependency looks like this:

  plugin.MyPlugin.depend.0=optional plugin AnotherPlugin 1.3.1

  On startup, optional dependency are ignored; if AnotherPlugin does not
  exist, MyPlugin will still load. However, if AnotherPlugin is unloaded
  while jEdit is running, all plugins that depend on it, even ones with
  optional dependencies, will be reloaded.

  If your plugin does a runtime check for the existence of another
  plugin, and uses its services if it exists, but can otherwise
  function fine, then you *MUST* add an optional dependency on that
  plugin, otherwise reloading plugins will leave stale classes in the
  active class loader.

- jEdit.getProperties() now returns a new collection, not the internal
  insance.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre9

Thanks to Brad Mace, David Hardin,  Matthew J. Price, Ollie Rutherfurd,
Patrick Tingen, Thomas Galvin and Wiktor Adamski for contributing to
this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous

- Includes new "Create Get/Set Methods" macro (Thomas Galvin).

- Minor improvements to "Deep Indent" feature (Brad Mace).

- "Reload All Buffers" command now only asks for confirmation if there
  are buffers with unsaved changes (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated Visual FoxPro syntax highlighting (Matthew J. Price).

- Updated Lisp syntax highlighting (David Hardin).

- Updated Progress syntax highlighting (Patrick Tingen)

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Horizontal scroll bar was not updated sometimes.

- The code that determines if a selection is being dragged is now much
  more accurate; for example, with rectangular selections is only
  registers a drag if the mouse is actually within the rectangular
  region, not just between the start and end locations in the buffer.

- jEdit did not compile with Java 1.3.

- Clicking "Select All" in the "Files Changed on Disk" dialog box did
  not enable the Reload button (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- startup.bsh file was not included in installer bundle.

- Fixed a performance problem with rollover buttons.

- Pressing a shortcut that reads the next character from the keyboard
  while a control other than the text area is focused will now shift
  focus to the text area, and back again to the original control when
  the key is pressed. This allows you to use commands like "Go to
  marker" from the search bar, and so on.

- Collapsing a folder node in the file system browser that is
  immediately followed by an expanded folder node would remove all
  columns from the view.

- This change was advertised in the pre8 change log but didn't actually
  make it in:

  - Fixed possible deadlock in VFSFileChooserDialog when changing the
    cursor.

- Hard wrap would wrap one word too early when inserting beyond the wrap
  margin.

- Fixed exception when tab size was set to 0.

- Fixed caret being offset too far to the right when dropping text in
  the text area, due to the gutter's width not being taken into account
  (Wiktor Adamski).

- Dismissing the buffer switcher popup now sends focus back to the text
  area.

- Fix layout problem with tool bars at the bottom of the view.

- Fix layout problem with tool bar obscuring the right docking area.

- Docking area sizes would be determined before the button sizes were
  known, so it was possible to resize a docking area beyond the edge of
  the view.

- ChunkCache.getScreenLineOfOffset() didn't return the correct value -1
  if the given offset was before the first visible line.

- "Confirm 'Save All Buffers' command" option didn't work.

- jEdit would throw an exception on startup if the GTK look and feel was
  in use.

- The MacOS plugin didn't work with the latest MRJ release.

- Commands in the right-click menu of the parent directories list
  operated on the files currently selected in the file listing table.

- Fixed NullPointerException in GUIUtilities.getComponentParent().

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- BufferUpdate.SAVING is now sent before the IO flag is set to true.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre8

Thanks to David Moss, Justin Dieters, Kris Kopicki, Ollie Rutherfurd,
Philipp Janda, and Scott Allen for contributing to this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous

- New splash screen (Kris Kopicki).

- Clicking "Reload" in the "Files Changed on Disk" dialog box now
  selects the next buffer. This improves usability.

- Added Alt-key mnemonics to "Files Changed" dialog box
  (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Alternative caret movement shortcuts (A+a,i,j,k,l,q,x,z) now work
  together with Shift to extend the selection.

- "Using jEdit" section of the jEdit user's guide is now mostly up to
  date for jEdit 4.2.

- Fixed various mistakes in the documentation (Justin Dieters).

}}}
{{{ Scripting

- BeanShell 2.0b1 imported. It has the following improvements over the
  previously-bundled release (1.3.1):

  - Full support for scripted classes that behave exactly the same as
    compiled classes.

  - Java 1.5-style static imports (this does not require Java 1.5). For
    example:

    static import java.lang.Math.*;
    sqrt(4.0);

  - Instance object imports (mix-ins) with the importObject() command.
    For example:

    importObject( new HashMap() );
    put("foo", "bar");
    print( get("foo") ); // prints "bar"

- The ASM bytecode generation library is now bundled with jEdit since it
  is required by BeanShell 2.0.

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Lua syntax highlighting (Philipp Janda)

- SMI-MIB syntax highlighting (Scott Allen).

- Updated Lisp syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Added Swig and PSP syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Added Poplog-11 syntax highlighting (David Moss).

- Java mode now highlights the "enum" keyword, and annotation types that
  were added in Java 1.5.

- BeanShell mode is now loaded from java.xml since now that BeanShell
  2.0 supports class declarations, the syntax is almost identical. The
  "beanshell" mode is still distinct from "java" mode though, to allow
  plugins to differentiate between the two file types.

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed NullPointerException in FileCellRenderer if a VFS.DirectoryEntry
  had a null symlinkPath (which should not be the case anyway).

- Fixed the roots: VFS to return non-null symlinkPaths.

- "Go to Last Visible Line" went one line too far if the last visible
  line was only partially visible.

- "Remove" button in Tool Bar pane of the Global Options dialog box now
  selects the next item after removing the currently selected item.

- Changing the view layout in the View pane of the Global Options dialog
  box did not take effect for currently opened views.

- Fixed a few dockable window layout problems.

- Fix for numeric keypad not working after switching virtual desktops
  with various keyboard sequences on Linux.

- Fixed a performance regression -- the entire text area was being
  repainted on every edit.

- apacheconf.xml in 4.2pre7 distribution was corrupted.

- New files no longer appear in the perspective if the autosave task
  runs while the "Close Files" dialog box is showing.

- Delete perspective.xml before saving it so that past versions don't
  accumulate on OpenVMS.

- Fixed MiscUtilities.isAbsolutePath() on OpenVMS.

- It was not possible to bind an action to S+SPACE.

- Key event workaround code now uses the time when an event was fired,
  not when it was received. This should fix the problem with stray keys
  getting inserted into the text area when an action takes a long time
  to execute.

- Fixed possible deadlock in VFSFileChooserDialog when changing the
  cursor.

- 0-byte files are now opened with the default line separator, not the
  Unix line separator.

- Fixed some minor inconsistencies in the behavior of the directory
  chooser dialog box.

- On some Windows systems, the last few lines of each page would not
  be printed. This was due to a Java bug; the incorrect
  FontRenderContext was being returned. There is now a workaround for
  this bug.

- BeanShell 2.0b1 fixes a problem with variable scoping in macros.

- Added a workaround for a Java bug where switching between windows
  using A+TAB would focus the menu bar.

- Removed debugging message from VFSBrowser class ("request already in
  progress").

- The backspace key now functions correctly with a tall caret.

- Making changes in a buffer before the start of a rectangular selection
  would cause exceptions to be thrown.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre7

Thanks to Aaron Bell, Alessandro Falappa, Ben Williams, Chris Petersen,
Kris Kopicki, Lee Turner, Ollie Rutherfurd, Mike Dillon, Randolf Mock,
and Randy Hudson for contributing to this release.

{{{ Miscellaneous

- The list of modes in various dialog boxes is now sorted (this does not
  affect the order that buffer names are matched against modes).

- Bundled some macros from various sources (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- The plugin manager no longer lists the JDK's "tools.jar" if it is
  loaded.

- The "Search in Directory" command now always selects the most recently
  searched in directory. To search in the current directory with the
  filter based on the current buffer's file name, click the
  "Synchronize" button.

- Updated "Preview Javadoc of Current Buffer" macro (Tom Gutwin).

- Added option to file system browser's Commands->Encoding menu to
  disable encoding auto-detection.

- Added support for UTF-8Y encoding, which is like UTF-8 except there
  is a three-byte signature (0xEFBBBF) at the beginning of the file.
  See http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/docs/papers/forms_of_unicode/#t2.
  UTF-8Y files are automatically detected, just like UTF-16.

- Removed File->Insert File command. As before, you can still invoke
  File->Open and select "Insert" from a file's right-click menu in the
  file system browser.

- Added "Display Actions" macro (Lee Turner).

- Wrote "What's new in jEdit 4.2" document.

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Added MoinMoin syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Added Relax NG compact syntax highlighting (Randy Hudson).

- Minor fix to Perl heredoc syntax highlighting (Chris Petersen).

- Updated ADPL syntax highlighting (Randolf Mock)

- Added Renderman-RIB syntax highlighting (Alessandro Falappa).

- Added PowerDynamo syntax highlighting (Ben Williams).

- Added WebSphere MQ scripting syntax highlighting (Aaron Bell).

- Added squid.conf syntax highlighting (Kris Kopicki).

}}}
{{{ Platform Specific

- MacOS plugin now supports services (Kris Kopicki).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed NullPointerException on startup which prevented jEdit from
  loading if a corrupted JAR file was present in one of the jars
  directories.

- Dropping a file onto the text area did not work if the text area was
  read-only.

- On Windows, MiscUtilities.constructPath() would fail if the parent
  path was a URL and the child path started with a \.

- On Windows, MiscUtilities.constructPath() would return a path with a
  double backslash if the parent used / as a separator, and ended with a
  /.

- UTF16 files with a byte order mark were not being detected due to a
  regression in pre6.

- The history code now tries very hard not to write a malformed
  ~/.jedit/history file.

- Fixed a slowdown of 5-7 seconds on startup in some cases that results
  from calling GraphicsDevice.getConfigurations().

- The list of words in the "Complete Word" window was not sorted.

- Fixed a race condition where the text area would throw a
  NullPointerException if EditPane.setBuffer() was called twice in a row
  with buffers that were not yet loaded.

- Loading and unloading plugins that added menu items to the file system
  browser did not update the file system browser's "Plugins" menu.

- History lists were not being saved at all unless the history file
  existed in the first place!

- The "Shortcuts" option pane will no longer refuse to display with
  various malformed plugins.

- An entry for inform.xml was missing from the mode catalog file.

- Removing from the before the first visible line to inside the visible
  region threw an exception.

- Fixed NullPointerException when pressing PageUp/PageDown inside a
  collapsed fold.

- Sometimes, multiple line insertions did not update the screen line
  count of newly inserted lines. This would result in the scroll bar
  value being incorrect until you went to the end of the buffer and back
  again.

- Using the TextTools plugin's "Transpose Lines" command in the first
  line of a collapsed fold would cause the folding state to be
  incorrectly updated, resulting in exceptions and an unusable text
  area.

- When performing a text removal that would put the first visible line
  inside an invisible region, the chunk cache would be updated
  prematurely so the invisible line would be visible, and trying to
  move the caret to it would throw exceptions.

- GZipped files were not being loaded correctly.

- Opening an XML file that specified an invalid encoding name in the
  <?xml?> processing instruction would throw an exception. Now, XML
  files that specify an invalid encoding are opened with the default
  encoding.

- Changed default shortcut of "Find Previous" from C+h to C+e g since on
  Mac OS X, C+h is always captured by the OS.

- Changing the wrap mode didn't invalidate screen line counts, this
  could result in scrolling getting messed up.

- Fixed NullPointerException when right-clicking on a drive root in the
  file system browser on Windows.

- Fixed floppy drive access when selecting a floppy drive in the drives
  list on Windows.

- Fixed a problem on some Windows versions where going to the drives
  list would display an error message from the OS.

- A display manager that is not associated with a visible buffer no
  longer tries to maintain state; instead everything is recalculated
  when it becomes visible. This fixes a whole class of bugs that would
  manifest usually as incorrect scrolling behavior after switching
  buffers.

- The Utilities->Action Bar command would only work once.

- Scrolling would jump if electric scrolling was off when moving the
  caret past the first or last visible line, if they were only partially
  visible due to soft wrapping.

- Fixed scrolling inconsistencies after collapsing a fold with soft wrap
  switched on.

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- MiscUtilities.getFileExtension() now works with path names too.

- Removed BufferListener.wrapModeChanged() method.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre6

Thanks to Magnus Henriksson, Mirco Bova, Ollie Rutherfurd, and
Stephen Bartlett for contributing to this release.

{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Added Apache httpd.conf syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Improved Scheme syntax highlighting (Stephen Bartlett).

- Improved MS-DOS batch file syntax highlighting (Mirco Bova).

- Added MCS51 (8051) microcontroller assembly syntax highlighting
  (Mirco Bova).

- Updated XSLT syntax highlighting (Magnus Henriksson).

}}}
{{{ Miscellaneous

- Pressing TAB with a rectangular selection now inserts a tab at the
  appropriate column, instead of shifting indent to the right.

- Added Up/Down arrows to the file system browser's colors option pane.
  This lets you change the order that file names are matched against the
  patterns in the list.

- Collapsed/expanded arrow icons in file system browser should now look
  good with a dark background as well (Kris Kopicki).

- The option for what to do when files change on disk in the General
  pane of the Utilities->Global Options dialog box is now tri-state:

  - Do nothing
  - Prompt
  - Automatically reload

  The first and last options correspond to the previous setting in
  4.2pre5. The second option is similar to the behavior in jEdit 4.1,
  except all changed buffers are listed in one dialog box.

- Edit->Complete Word now completes words in all visible buffers (ie,
  showing in at least one edit pane). So as a poor man's CodeAid, you
  can open a text file listing Java classes and methods in a zero-height
  split.

- The plugin manager now has better handling of loading and unloading
  plugins with dependencies.

- jEdit now attempts to auto-detect the encoding of XML files by looking
  for an <?xml ... encoding="..." ?> processing instruction on the first
  line of the file. Note that if this processing instruction is present,
  an encoding selected in the File->Open dialog box is ignored.

- jEdit will now refuse to load a plugin if some of the JAR files listed
  in its 'jars' property are missing.

- Added a few macros to the base distribution (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed problems with structure matching when soft wrap is on, if the
  structure spans more than one screen line (for example, this can
  happen with the tag matcher in the XML plugin).

- If 'Complete Word' was bound to TAB, pressing TAB would show the popup
  and immediately hide it.

- File drag and drop actually works now (so you should now remove the
  DragAndDrop plugin. Having it installed causes all dropped text to be
  copied, instead of moved.)

- Fixed a problem highlighting C preprocessor directives containing <.

- Batch mode didn't recognize @rem as a comment.

- The multiple results toggle in the HyperSearch results window was not
  being saved.

- International keys should once again work on JVMs that send AltGR
  sequences as Control+Alt (which is completely broken).

- Buffer.getPriorNonEmptyLine() did not access segments properly. This
  caused obscure problems with auto-indent.

- Fixed more problems with symbolic link handling in the file system
  browser.

- Fixed long-standing race condition in file system browser that could
  prevent a directory listing from being updated after a file was
  created, removed or renamed.

- Changes made in the Docking option pane only took effect after a
  restart.

- Fixed minor problem with digit handling in the Complete Word popup.

- Fixed problem with repeating user input in the action bar.

- Made it so that site properties are loaded just before user
  properties. This allows the look and feel to be changed via the site
  properties.

- Fixed a problem with Replace All over rectangular selections where
  only the first occurrence would be replaced.

- If a duplicate copy of a plugin was installed, opening the Shortcuts
  option pane could throw an exception.

- The Plugin Options dialog box can still be opened if initialization of
  an option pane fails.

- The key event workaround would ignore a KEY_TYPED event with the AltGR
  modifier that followed a KEY_PRESSED with a keyCode of \0. This is
  incorrect, and broke international key handling.

- Changing the buffer sorting options, or having untitled files would
  would cause the wrong buffers to be restored on startup.

- Fixed a problem with inserting text at the beginning of a fold line.

- The behaviour of shift-clicking inside an existing selection did not
  work in 4.2pre5.

- Selecting the "Install" or "Update" tab in the plugin manager no
  longer shows a modal dialog, since on some systems this would cause a
  beep.

- After opening a new file, the scroll bars would still reflect the
  previous buffer's state while the new file was being loaded.

- If a Replace All failed (for example, because the regular expression
  was invalid) the wait cursor would linger in the search and replace
  dialog box.

- If a buffer listed in the 'files on changed' dialog box was closed,
  clicking it in the list would cause problems.

- When editing a buffer in more than one text area, changing the last
  token of a line (for example, by inserting the start of a comment on
  that line) would not update subsequent lines in some cases.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre5

Thanks to Ollie Rutherfurd, Peter Lundqvist and Silas Smith for
contributing to this release.

{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated Icon syntax highlighting (Silas Smith).

- Updated Pike syntax highlighting (Peter Lundqvist).

- The "if" in #include <net/if.h> is no longer highlighted in C and C++
  modes.

- SCRIPT tags in HTML files no longer recognize <?php ... ?>.

}}}
{{{ Miscellaneous Changes

- Drag and drop in the text area. You can disable this in the Mouse pane
  of the Global Options dialog box. The functionality of the DragAndDrop
  plugin (handling files dropped from your operating system's file
  manager) has been incorporated too.

- Files that don't exist on disk are no longer saved in the perspective
  (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- The end of a fold is now indicated in the gutter.

- Added "Plugin Options" button to plugin manager.

- Pressing a non-alphanumeric character with the 'Complete Word' popup
  showing now inserts the currently selected entry first, instead of
  just closing the popup and then inserting the entered character.

- If there are several search results in one line, clicking the line in
  the HyperSearch Results window now selects all occurrences, not just
  the first one.

- If regular expressions are on, the search bar now shows an error
  message instead of silently failing if you attempt a reverse search
  with S+ENTER (reverse search with regular expressions is not
  supported).

- Added an option for disabling the confirmation dialog box shown by the
  "Save All Buffers" command.

- When running on Java 2 version 1.4, jEdit now uses NIO APIs to obtain
  a list of supported file encodings. On Java 2 version 1.3, the same
  hard-coded list of encodings is offered as before.

- The Docking option pane has been reintroduced since a number of people
  preferred the old docking style (the new direct manipulation still
  works of course).

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed international keys on MacOS X.

- "Multiple results" button in the HyperSearch Results window did not
  work correctly.

- Line number shown in status bar when matching brackets was off by one.

- Fixed some usability issues with the "Search in selection" setting in
  the Find dialog box.

- Directory search settings were being reset when a search flag was
  changed.

- Fixed handling of space bar which could result in extra spaces being
  inserted when using dead keys.

- Fixed NullPointerException sometimes thrown when scrolling to the line
  after the last visible line with electric scrolling switched off.

- Fixed problems such as ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions or the
  beginning of the buffer becoming inaccessible when expanding the last
  fold in a buffer.

- Pressing ENTER at the end of a collapsed fold line now properly
  expands the fold.

- Setting indentOpenBrackets and indentCloseBrackets to ( and ) didn't
  work, this broke Lisp auto indent.

- When text editing moves the caret out of the visible region, jEdit
  only scrolls the text area if its active, so that editing with a split
  view does not scroll the inactive text area's caret into the visible
  region. However the logic for handling this case in jEdit 4.2 was
  flawed and even selecting a command from a menu would not cause
  scrolling.

- "Searching..." message in HyperSearch window did not go away if the
  file set contained no files.

- jEdit will no longer fail to start if the user properties file could
  not be loaded.

- Fixed a few cosmetic bugs in the Global Options dialog box.

- In some cases changing between text and BeanShell replace mode would
  not take effect.

- Clicking "Replace and Find" or "Replace All" in Search dialog will now
  beep if no search string is entered, instead of using the last search
  string.

- Text insertion while overwrite mode is on is now recorded correctly in
  macros.

- Collapsing or expading nodes in the file system browser would deselect
  the node. This was a usability problem since pressing LEFT or RIGHT
  should not deselect anything.

- The labels of -toggle and -float actions for dockables were not being
  set correctly.

- Triple clicking to select a line did not place the line in the %
  register.

- Various combinations of insertions and removes could mess up floating
  positions.

- "Run Temporary Macro" no longer runs the temporary macro file from
  disk if the buffer is not open.

- Inserting text at the end of the buffer did not update the vertical
  scroll bar in other text areas viewing the same buffer.

- Fixed an exception thrown when narrowing to a range where the first or
  last line was the first or last line of the buffer.

- Various combinations of insertions and removes could mess up the fold
  visibility map.

- The up/down arrow keys, delete line, expand/collapse fold and a few
  other commands might not have put the caret in the right place if
  horizontal scrolling was involved.

- AElred (the XML parser used by jEdit) would bomb if an XML element
  contained more than twice the text of the current I/O buffer size.
  When it ran out of the room, the I/O buffer was always doubled even if
  the text to be inserted was more than this length.

- Restored the jEdit 4.1 behavior of consuming key events that are bound
  to an action. So now you can bind A+f to a command, and pressing A+f
  will execute the command without popping up the File menu.

- The text area's screen line cache was not invalidated on buffer
  changes. This caused rare and obscure problems like bracket matching
  and the caret showing up in the wrong place.

- Incorporated BeanShell 1.3final, which fixes a bug with static field
  access.

- _REGEXP syntax rules that matched strings containing whitespace did
  not display in some circumstances.

- The file system browser would not refresh, and edit modes would not be
  reloaded, if the paths in question contained symbolic links.

- "Join Lines" no longer prints an exception if the buffer is read only.

- Fixed NullPointerException being thrown when clicking tool bar buttons
  in a file dialog box with no associated view.

- Fixed NullPointerException when pressing RIGHT at the end of a line
  with rectangular selection mode on.

- The "Save As" dialog box no longer completes file names on the fly.
  Press TAB to complete file names. This was done since previously it
  was impossible to save to a file named "jjj.sss" if there was a file
  "jjj.sss.xxx" already in the destination directory.

}}}
{{{ API Additions

- Icon theme support. Pass a URL to GUIUtilities.setIconPath() and all
  icons will be loaded from that URL prepended to the icon name.

- Added BeanShell.runScript(View view, String path, Reader in,
  NameSpace namespace) method. Also added a corresponding _runScript()
  method.

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- Within an event listener, Buffer.isTransactionInProgress() always
  returns true, and transactionComplete() is now always called on each
  event listener after every buffer change. As far as I know, no plugins
  use the transaction API so this should not affect anyone.

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre4

Thanks to Chris Morris, Marcelo Vanzin, Ryan Fowler and Ryan Grove for
contributing to this release.

{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated NSIS2 syntax highlighting (Ryan Grove).

- Modes from the user catalog file are checked first for a matching
  first line or file name glob (Ryan Fowler).

- Updated Ruby syntax highlighting (Chris Morris).

- Updated Pike syntax highlighting (Peter Lundqvist).

}}}
{{{ Scripting

- BeanShell 1.3b2 is now included. Improvements since 1.3a1 (which was
  included with jEdit 4.2pre3) include:

  - Properties style auto-allocation of variables.

    // foo is initially undefined
    foo.bar.gee = 42; 
    print( foo.bar.gee ); // 42

  - Scripted class support (with class keyword). Limitations:

    - Scripted classes may only extend other scripted classes
    - implement clauses are currently ignored
    - All Scripted classes appear as type bsh.This - they are
      effectively the same type of object.

  - The bsh.system object which is shared across Interpreter instances
    has been renamed "bsh.shared".  For backwards compatability it is
    still referenced as bsh.system as well.

  - All scripted objects now implement the standard object protocol of
    toString(), hashcode() and equals().

  - Various bug fixes and optimizations.

- Actions and dockables are now invoked in their own temporary
  namespace. This prevents memory leaks in code like this:

  antfarm = wm.getDockable("antfarm");
  antfarm.foo();
  // reference to 'antfarm' remains in global namespace, possibly
  // after the dockable is closed

}}}
{{{ Miscellaneous

- Removed the "synchronized scrolling" option which hasn't actually
  worked since 4.2pre1 or 4.2pre2. If you liked this feature, you can
  write a plugin that does the same thing pretty easily.

- The kill ring is saved between editing sessions.

- The Latest Version plugin now shows the latest stable and development
  version numbers, previously it only showed the latest development
  version.

}}}
{{{ Optimizations

- Faster regular expression search and replace.

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Changing the no modifier click action for the gutter didn't work.

- The 'jedit' script was not being created on Unix.

- Fixed AltGR key on certain JVMs that send it as Control+Alt.

- Regular expression replace didn't work with certain regular
  expressions.

- When deep indent is on, indentation of code like this is handled a bit
  better:

  if(foo
     bar)
  {

  However it is still not 100% correct.

- Added an option for the "deep indent" setting to the Editing option
  pane.

- "Save as" did not update the buffer map properly if buffer sorting was
  switched off, or if symbolic links were involved.

- Heredocs in PHP are <<< not <<.

- Position tree update code had several problems, and this caused hangs
  and various exceptions.

- jEdit would do a two-stage save for settings files, but it would still
  delete the old file if the save failed, thus settings could be lost of
  the disk is almost full, etc. Now, files are only overwritten if the
  new settings are saved successfully.

- Fixed possible NullPointerException in Shortcuts option pane when a
  newly-installed plugin contains dockables but no actions.

- Using the Global Options dialog box or anything else that calls
  jEdit.propertiesChanged() no longer clears the kill ring.

- Escape sequences in the replace string (\n, \t) didn't work properly.

- When viewing the favorites: URL, the full path of the entries is now
  shown, just like in 4.1.

- The Favorites menu in the file system browser was sorted by entry
  name, but full paths were listed, so it looked like there was no order
  to it at all.

- Fixed bogus DIRTY_CHANGED messages sent when loading a buffer with
  persistent markers.

- The numeric keypad didn't work on JDK 1.3.

- Apparently OS/2 Java has a broken File.getCanonicalPath()
  implementation, so we don't call this method on that OS.

- Reload command now works with Untitled files.

- If a virtual file system threw an exception other than an IOException,
  the file system browser would refuse to perform further operations
  with an "I/O already in progress" message.

- Fixed Perl syntax highlighting for variable names that began with
  s, m, q or tr followed by a non-alphanumeric character.

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- SearchMatcher.nextMatch() returns an instance of SearchMatcher.Match
  instead of a two-element integer array.

- Added jEdit.getPlugin(String name, boolean loadIfNecessary) method
  (Marcelo Vanzin).

}}}

}}}

{{{ Version 4.2pre3

Thanks to Brad Mace, Brant Langer Gurganus, Christoph Daniel Schulze,
Jonathan Revusky, Ken Turner, Kris Kopicki and Ollie Rutherfurd for
contributing to this release.

{{{ Editing

- The kill ring no longer shows duplicate entries, or entries that
  consist entirely of whitespace.

- Added emacs-like "deep indent" which can be enabled using the
  deepIndent buffer-local property:

  fooBar(baz,
         moreParameters,
	 ...); (Brad Mace)

- Just like the Find Previous command, S+ENTER in the search bar now
  shows an error message if regular expression search is enabled.
  Previously it would just search forward.

- The "Format Paragraph" command now shows an error message instead of
  just beeping if the wrap margin is not set.

- The "Paste Previous" and "Paste From List" dialog boxes now show the
  selected item in a multiple-line text area (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Added LOTOS syntax highlighting (Ken Turner).

- Added SDL/PL syntax highlighting (Ken Turner).

- Added IMPORT element to RULES tag. All rules from the ruleset named
  by the required attribute DELEGATE are copied into this ruleset.

- Improved Velocity syntax highlighting.

- Added TPL syntax highlighting (Brant Langer Gurganus).

- Added UnrealScript syntax highlighting (Christoph Daniel Schulze).

- Updated FreeMaker syntax highlighting (Jonathan Revusky).

- Updated Pyrex syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ User Interface

- Activity Log now autoscrolls when dragging the mouse outside the log
  area bounds.

- Docked window menu buttons should now look better on MacOS X.

- When closing a buffer, the previous buffer is now selected, not the
  first buffer. The code that does this was actually there all along,
  but it never worked and I didn't notice (it would just go to the first
  buffer).

- On Windows, entering X:\ or X:/ where X is a drive letter will
  automatically list that drive so that further paths can be completed.
  This is similar to how on Unix entering / opens the root directory.

- Improved 'Choose Directory' dialog box.

- A warning dialog box is now shown if nothing is selected in the text
  area and the "search in selection" setting is activated.

}}}
{{{ Plugin Manager

- The plugin manager now lists JARs that do not contain a plugin core
  class.

- A warning is shown when updating a plugin from a version using the old
  API to a version using the new API, advising the user to restart
  jEdit.

- The plugin manager no longer removes an existing plugin if downloading
  of an update failed.

}}}
{{{ Optimizations

- Fixed a performance regression from pre2. Opening large files with
  soft wrap off should now be as fast (or faster) than 4.1.

- Fixed delays when exiting editor if help viewer and/or plugin manager
  windows were open.

- jEdit.getBuffer() now uses a hashtable instead of a linear scan.

- Optimized away some redundant code in the display manager, which
  should result in improved performance.

- Search dialog should open a little bit faster. This fixes the issue
  where if you press C+f and type a search string really quickly,
  characters would be inserted in the text area.

- Undo queue is now stored in a linked list, rather than an array. As
  offensive as it might sound, the array was being shifted along one
  position for each (non-compound) edit! Especially if the undo limit
  was set to a large value this could cause slowdowns.

- The buffer no longer grabs a write lock when calculating a fold level
  or syntax tokens for a line. This should prevent the text area from
  stalling if the buffer is being saved in an I/O thread.

- Fixed a performance regression from pre2. If all line contexts were
  valid, a subsequent request for a line's syntax tokens would
  invalidate all contexts from that line onwards. This did not happen if
  for example all but one context was valid.

- Faster directory listing in the file system browser.

- Fixed slowdown if activity log was docked and the "tail" option was on
  in Java 1.3.

- Floating positions are now stored in a more efficient data structure
  allowing operations to be performed in logarithmic time. This improves
  performance with plugins that create a lot of positions, such as XML
  and anything using ErrorList.

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- Fixed NullPointerException when loading plugins if opened buffers
  contained an invalid 'folding' property.

- Fixed NullPointerException when invoking Complete Word in an edit mode
  that did not define a keyword map.

- Selecting 'Close' from a cloned dockable's popup menu closed the wrong
  window.

- Plugin manager window did not have the same icon as all other jEdit
  windows.

- "What's new in jEdit 4.2" document was missing from the download due
  to a packaging error.

- "Highlight every n lines" color setting in Gutter option pane didn't
  work properly.

- Plugin manager hardcoded the table foreground color to black, this
  could make the table unreadable if the text area background was dark
  and "use jEdit text area colors in all text controls" was on.

- EOL_SPAN_REGEXP rules threw NullPointerExceptions.

- Plugins that failed to load were not marked as such, and showed up as
  "Loaded" in the plugin manager.

- Added a workaround for a MacOS X Java bug where renaming a file to
  contain a path to a non-existent directory would delete the file.

- It is now possible to rename a file to another name that only differs
  in case on Windows.

- If "Ignore Case" was on, searching for strings containing certain
  characters (such as Unicode 0x00df) did not work since
  String.toUpperCase() sometimes mangles the string in various ways.
  Processing the string with Character.toUpperCase() doesn't seem to do
  this.

- The "Abbreviations" option pane now correctly handles expansions with
  duplicate abbreviations.

- An undoable edit is no longer merged if there is a pending redo. This
  would cause the undo queue to become inconsistent.

- Changed input modifier mapping on MacOS X.

  C+ is the Command key as before
  A+ is now the Control key
  M+ is no longer bound!

  A+ used to be the Option key however this caused problems such as
  special characters on international keyboards triggering jEdit
  shortcuts; for example, Option+' inserts # on an Italian keyboard, and
  jEdit would pick this up as A+QUOTE which is bound to "Scroll Page
  Up".

- Fixed NullPointerException when clicking in text area in a soft
  wrapped line that was but off at the bottom.

- Fixed NullPointerException when scrolling to a line that was longer
  than the visible area.

- Added a workaround for a problem with the Toolkit class which is
  non-reentrant on the Solaris JDK. This could cause a segmentation
  fault on jEdit startup.

- Fixed a problem in the text offset to screen line conversion. It
  usually manifested itself in the form of the "disappearing selection"
  bug; if only part of the first line was visible due to scrolling and a
  selection began in the part that was not visible, painting the
  selection would throw an exception which would result in the selection
  extension being removed from the text area.

- Printing is no longer done in a background thread, and now blocks the
  UI, due to various thread-safety problems.

- Printing a range of pages would always print starting from the first
  page.

- jEdit didn't compile with Java 2 version 1.3.

- Invalid delegates in syntax mode files could throw exceptions.

- "Spaces to Tabs" was broken.

- Added a workaround for the print spacing problem on some Java
  versions. Note that this results in much larger spool files. Enable in
  Utilities->Global Options->Printing.

- Added a workaround for buggy/incomplete implementations of JDK 1.4
  printing API. Now you can force use of the JDK 1.3 API when running on
  1.4. Enable in Utilities->Global Options->Printing.

- Re-introduced jEdit 3.2.2-style Unix window geometry workarounds. If
  you saw problems like dialog boxes getting smaller each time they were
  opened, etc, let me know if this fixes them.

- Fixed hang if a mode contains regular expression rules that match a
  zero-width string.

- The jEditLauncher configuration is no longer updated if installing a
  new jEdit release over an old one with the jEditLauncher de-selected
  in the installer.

- When searching for text, jEdit tries a little harder to make sure the
  search occurrence is visible if the text area needs to be scrolled
  horizontally.

- When using TAB to move focus from the buffer switcher, or search bar,
  etc. it should eventually end up i…