1.20 (r3543) to 1.21 (r3918) -- Status: 2020-03-16

Status bar

• Added special color for read-only files.

Installation

• Moved EPMBBS files to samples package.

• Renamed package ids. The installation works with old and new id names. Old id names were changed on the first start now, when the WarpIN database is unlocked.

• Use rwIni functions, if installed and if possible.

• Added deletion of myepm folder icon EAs and avoided its setting.

• Fixed update behavior for object titles.

Search dialog

• Enabled T and B settings.

• Changed the font of both entry fields to that of the edit window.

• If a mark exists in current file, activate Marked area and Start at top. Made that configurable by Preferences -> Appearance -> Windows and dialogs -> Search dialog.

• Improved focus, e.g. when switching EPM windows while the Search dialog is on top.

• Many more fixes.

Settings

• Added setting for mode-specific or general tabs and margins.

• Replaced all remaining EPM settings with NEPMD settings, including configurable cursor and pointer styles.

Cursor highlighting

• Added cursor highlighting for many cases.

Window and object functions

• Added procs as wrappers for C functions.

• Replaced REXX commands with that.

Popup menu

• Open popup menu at the cursor position with Alt+Sh+F10.

Environment extension

• Fixed BeginLIBPATH handling. Now it can be extended by the pseudo env var within a command window.

Config file

• Remove multiple spaces within the value part, except for color defs.

File

• Path-changing commands now change to the root dir of a drive before changing that drive. That keeps the previous dirs on previous drives unlocked, so that it can be deleted or renamed. Previously the old dir was locked until EPM was closed.

Unwanted scrolling

• Added workaround for more cases.

• Fixed small vertical window scrolling on position restore. Now the scroll position is saved and restored exactly, including fractions of font heights.

Search

• Fixed search direction processing.

General

• Fixed handling of double quotes for defcs and defprocs.

• Allow for special chars in filenames by adding missing enquoting.

RecompileNew

• Many improvements, with checking for different .E files and faster .E file processing, except for the initial check.

• Added new markers: 'I' = information, '=' = equal .E file.

• Now user .E files, marked with '=', can be safely deleted.

• At first startup, if user .EX files were found, ask to execute RecompileNew.

• Added line-wise comparison with diff.exe for source files, if a md5 check has found different files. That allows for ignoring $Id $ (RCS keyword) lines, as being used in the source files.

NepmdInfo

• Added version check via version.cfg on the netlabs server.

• Improved processing, added missing select event.

EAs

• Preserve EAs and datetimes for Move and Encode.

Open URLs

• Improved dialog actions.

• Changed to use a temporary WPS object. This supports long URLs.

DosUtil

• Added functions for datetime difference calculation and validation.

Keys

• Disabled RefreshMenu in SwitchKeyset, if not required. That results in a speed improvement on file switching. Unfortunately it's still required for different keysets (e.g. for SHELL files) to keep the mnemonics in the menu right.

Assist

• Made scanning for multi-line comments on cursor movement much faster. A simpler method is used to bypass the MLC array creation. That array is used, if it exists, what is the fastest method. Now stuttering cursor scrolling shouldn't happen anymore.

• LocateMLC: Replaced previous complex implementation, that already was a binary search, by a clean binary search. This seems to be a bit faster again.

• Improvements for literals.

• Fixed cursor movement when repeatfind is used.

• Fixed length of highlighted string for MatchFindOnMove.

Alt+1

• Fixed Alt+1 for <filespec>:<linenum> <string containing a : (colon)>. Now linenum is correctly parsed.

• Added <filespec>:<"search word"> or <filespec>:<searchword>, with allowing for cursor placement on <searchword>.

Preferences menu

• Changed Configuration presets to Basic configuration.

• Added sections Presets and Main items. Added items to it to control main settings more easily and to give visual feedback on switching presets.

• Added Edit window -> Click only gives focus as replacement for the const.

Menu

• Avoid menu item 'Restore file...' for non-backup .Tree_Dir files.

• Disabled common popup menu items for .Tree and .Tree_Dir files. Previously, the Alt+1 menu item appeared twice and TagScan didn't make sense for these files.

• Fixed disabling for advanced marking menu items.

• PopupMenuItemsOutsideMark: Added diabling of advanced menu items if CUA marking is active.

• Fixed menu item id exhaustion after RefreshMenu.

Backup

• Improved Backup to avoid backup file creation when useless.

• Added Restore and Compare commands.

• Added Restore and Compare menu item to popup menu for .Tree files.

• Added EAs EPM.PREVPATH and EPM.BACKUPDATETIME for later file restore and later cleanup of backup directory.

• Fixed .Tree popup menu behavior to take the line under the mouse pointer.

• Added automatic mode selection for backup files on load via EA recognizing. The previous mode is now saved as EA EPM.PREVMODE.

• Changed getting mode for backup files without requiring EPM.PREVMODE EAs. It is now checked if a tilde and a number is appended.

• Fixed processing of virtual files.

Move expression

• Extended to process mark if it exists.

• Improved string determination.

Modes

• Syntax expansion: Completely reworked C mode, many improvements for when coding styles have changed. Added CFunctionCodeStyle.

• SCRIPT: Fixed highlighting definitions.

• PHP: Improvements.

• IPF: Find headings spanned over multiple lines.

• PASCAL: Several improvements.

• SHELL, .DOS, .Tree: Made 'Directory of' line editable for DIR commands, like for '.DOS dir' files.

• SHELL, .DOS, .Tree: Control the cursor position.

• SHELL, .DOS, .Tree: Use SHELL highlighting for .DOS files.

• All modes: Replaced LINECOMMENTOVERRIDEMULTI by MULTILINECOMMENTENDPRIO. This is only used for TeX's pseudo-MLC env \iffalse ... \fi.

• Tags: Fixes for TeX and LaTeX commands.

• Assist: Find more TeX keywords.

• TEX: Added verbatim environment to the multi-line commands.

• Syntax expansion: Fixes for REXX.

• FindDef: Added mode REXX.

• REXX: Improved bracket matching when pressing BackSpace repeatedly.

• REXX: Added rwIni keywords.

File and Mode settings

• Completely reworked, with calls to generic functions.

• Fixes for Coding style settings.

• Added menu item.

Format submenu

• Split Line breaks into Line ends and Line wraps.

• Added menu items for DOS and Unix line ends.

Encoding

• Added new commands.

• Completely reworked encoding menu items. That includes a predefined list, similar to the spell-check menu items and many helpful menu items and options.

Mouse

• Improved double click behavior.

Attributes

• Added workaround to avoid access to the unwanted first undo state after loading a file with attribute EAs.

Bookmarks

• Added compatibility for old bookmark commands. That makes the toolbar commands from MAKEACTN.E work again.

• Changed bookmarks dialog to display column instead of index.

• Extended bookmarks dialog to optionally add EPM.POS, undo and stack positions. This behavior can be toggled via dialog button and is saved per window non-permanently.

Spell-check dictionaries

• Catch errors of wget and unzip on download.

• Dialog improvements.

Associations

• Added fix for user-defined groups of associations.

Compile

• Removed double call of wis\makefile in many cases. (There exist still a few.)

• Fixed backslash handling for C-included files by htext files.

• Changed clean makefile target to clean both debug and release, as documented in MAKEFILE.INF.