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1.20 (r3543) to 1.21 -- Status: 2019-07-14

Installation

• Fixed update behavior for object titles.

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.

Menu

• Fixed menu item id exhaustion after RefreshMenu.

Backup

• Fixed processing of virtual files.

Move expression

• Extended to process mark if it exists.

Modes

• Tags: Fixes for TeX and LaTeX commands.

• Syntax expansion: Fixes for REXX.

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

• REXX: Improved bracket matching when pressing BackSpace repeatedly.

• REXX: Added rwIni keywords.

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-ceck 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.

Tags

• Find more TeX keywords.

Associations

• Added fix for user-defined groups of associations.

Compiling NEPMD

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

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1.19 (r3209) to 1.20 (r3543) -- 2019-03-21

Installation

• Fixed configuration of NEPMD associations during the installation. Previously, the script worked only after installation.

Sum

• Added menu item to insert the sum of block-marked text.

Center, box and draw

• Added menu items under Format.

• Added style configuration dialogs.

• For line mode, use header width value instead of 1599 (MAXMARGIN).

• Added configuration of header width.

Reflow margins

• Changed configuration of first margins selection item to use header width.

Key recording

• Allow for edit, save and restore a recorded sequence.

• Added menu items for that.

• Moved menu items from Edit to Run.

Spell-check dictionaries

• Uploaded working Netscape dictionary files.

• Improved configuration dialogs.

• Added Download button to the Edit dictionaries dialog.

Alt+1 and URLs

• Improved URL processing.

• Many improvements for Alt+1 to process the file spec under the cursor, e.g. added filespec:"search wrds".

Search

• Fixes for handling search options.

• Added reset of last saved Change arguments by executing a different Find (locate) command.

Startup

• Made initialization more stable.

• Improved processing of commands after the first start.

Title bar

• Improved the display of the .LONGNAME EA.

Dynamic configuration

• Improved processing of environment variables to extend the environment and fixed previous double extension.

• BEGINLIBPATH is used now instead of EPMBEGINLIBPATH.

• Environments started with EPMMAINT.CMD now show the correct paths for the loader and the executable.

Format

• Copied Coding style menu items from Preferences to Format for easier access.

• Extended all remaining commands to process mark only if it exists.

Tags

• Added tags support for modes INI and TEXT.

• Fixed tags processing for PHP, IPF.

• Allow for tags with multiple words.

• IPF: Allow for headers spanned over multiple lines.

• Fixed tags processing if egrep meta characters are included.

• Added LaTeX and TeX tag keywords for mode TEX.

Modes

• Changes for PERL, JAVASCRIPT, TEXT, CONFIGSYS, C, RC, PASCAL, PYTHON, REXX.

• SHELL: Fixed command history for a restored command line file.

Highlighting

• The reload of a keyword file can now be forced by keeping the Ctrl key pressed while executing NepmdActivateHighlight. That applies also to the highlighting menu items.

• Highlighting is now temporarily switched off during mouse marking. This is required as a workaround to allow for catching the end of a line when the file was highlighted.

• Added workaround for an EPM bug to replace DELIMI with DELIM if possible to allow for specifying escape chars.

Recompile

• Fixes for RecompileNew.

• Changed inclusion of MYSTUFF.E and handle that file correctly as an option.

• Added Recompile command to process the current file only.

Tabs and spaces

• Many changes and fixes.

Swap text

• Added MoveExpressionLeft and MoveExpressionRight. Menu items can be found under Edit -> Move.

Syntax expansion

• Reworked syntax expansion: Handle tabs correctly, skip expansion in unwanted cases, avoid double ending keywords.

• Many fixes.

Assist

• Fixes for nested multi-line comments.

Attributes

• Reworked buggy attributes (e.g. bookmarks) handling for many commands. Attributes are now preserved after processing and move now correctly together with the text. Deleting a line removes also its attributes.

Bookmarks

• Reworked bookmarks processing.

• Fixed handling of multiple files with bookmarks in a ring.

• Improved ListMark dialog. Added filename and the columns FileId, Idx and Line.

• Improved SetMark dialog: Pre-filled name entry field with the begin of the current line.

• Added commands and key definitions for adding auto-named bookmarks and for going to the next and previous bookmark.

• Added type and name configuration dialogs.

Dialogs

• Fixed strings processing for ListBox and EntryBox.

Fill

• Extended Fill to accept multiple chars, either tiled or left-aligned.

Alt+1

• Improved file searching for NEPMD files.

Context menu

• Added TagScan and OpenUrl to the context menu.

Preferences

• Fixed notification within menu items if values are overridden by file, file EA or mode settings.

• Added Insert marked lines (above or below). Previously, below was internally hard-coded. The new default value is above.

• Moved stream mode and Newline processing to an extra submenu.

• Reworked Tab and BackTab. Added much more configuration options.

user.cfg

• Fixed export of a value with leading or trailing spaces.

Undo

• Reworked Undo processing.

• Added configuration for special events.

• Fixed Undo position, avoid scrolling and allow for catching a change without scrolling by changing in the Undo history back and forth.

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1.18 (r2948) to 1.19 (r3209) -- 2018-10-19

Modes

• Improved mode definitions for INI, JAVASCRIPT, TEX, FORTRAN77, FORTRAN90, TEXT.

• Added mode PYTHON.

• Improved PREFERREDCOMMENT key to handle 'L' or 'S' for single-line and 'M' for multiple line comment. Allow for appending a number, e.g. 'M2', to select a special string, when multiple comment strings are defined.

Menu

• Added Preferences menu item to the popup menu.

• Added menu item Mark line set at cursor to the Mark submenu.

• Improvements for the Format submenu.

• Added Current keyset definitions to the Help submenu

• Added Highlight cursor to the Preferences menu.

• Added Import user settings to the Preferences menu.

• Added section headings to the Preferences menu.

• Reworked and extended Colors and fonts in the Preferences menu.

• Added NewLine and Enter configuration to the Preferences menu.

Keys

• Changed scroll definitions in CUA keys. Added Alt combinations to Move cursor and to Scroll for faster movement.

• ScrollLock interchanges now the definitions for Cursor move and Scroll. That leads to scroll improvements on systems where AMouse doesn't work, e.g. on VMs.

• Made mouse definitions configurable via STDKEYS.E.

• Added key category names.

• Added dynamic listing of the current key definitions.

• Fixed single-key determination for DBCS, untested.

Configuration files

• Fixed determination if an import of DEFAULTS.CFG or USER.CFG is required.

• Moved all settings from OBJECTS.CFG and COLORS.CFG to DEFAULTS.CFG.

• Changed color numbers to names in configuration files and registry keys.

• Added optional deletion of user keys before import of USER.CFG.

• Made cache directory for temporary mode files configurable.

• Improved and fixed enquoting for .CFG and text .INI files.

Undo

• Added cursor, scroll and mark position restore to Undo and Redo.

Shell files

• Fixed shell file processing.

• Improved outfiltering of initial shell prompt lines (requested by Ben Dragon).

Process marked lines

• Changed processing of file to marked lines, if marked for Wrap.

Syntax expansion

• Improved syntax expansion for C to omit expansion if cursor is left of a keyword or a brace.

• Improved syntax expansion for PASCAL, E and REXX.

Assist and TagScan

• Made Assist much faster for multi-line comments.

• Added fixes for Assist.

• Reworked TagScan for C, PASCAL, ASSEMBLER, CMD, HTEXT, IPF, JAVASCRIPT, PYTHON, E, REXX, TEX to use Assist procedures for more accurate results.

• Added fix for FORTRAN90.

Library functions of NEPMD.DLL

• Added NepmdDeleteConfigTree, NepmdImportUserConfig.

• Renamed NepmdFileDelete to NepmdDeleteFile.

• Added NepmdDeleteTree, NepmdSearchTree.

Installation

• Fixed unwanted reset of program object settings on program object creation.

• Fixed corruption of NEPMD.INI on installation.

Miscellaneous

• Improved error handling in .ERX files.

• Added more fixes for Locate and Change.

• Added fixes for changing the additional keyset.

• Added improvement for HookAdd.

• Minimized scrolling for ScrollAfterLocate.

• Avoid unwanted scrolling in more cases.

• Fixes and improvements for Link, Unlink and RecompileNew.

• Fixed and improved FindFileInList and Alt_1.

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