v2.5.2

This is a fixup release for v2.5.1 and v2.5.0.

Binary packages and repositories for various Linux distributions are provided via OBS repositories:

• Common packages
• Gtk packages
• Curses packages

When installing the Curses (sciteco-curses_*.deb) or Gtk+ (sciteco-gtk_*.deb) Ubuntu packages, keep in mind that you will also need the corresponding common (sciteco-common_*.deb) package. The Gtk+ binary is called gsciteco, so it can be installed alongside the Curses version. Packages may or may not work on other versions of Ubuntu or Debian variants.

For generic Linux builds, you can try the AppImages (sciteco-*.AppImage). Be sure to add the executable flag after downloading. The Gtk AppImage (sciteco-gtk_*.AppImage) assumes that Gtk+ 3 is already installed on the host system. Since the image’s contents are not easily accessible, you are advised to download ~/.teco_ini and customize it afterwards.

The FreeBSD builds (sciteco-*_freebsd-15.0_amd64.pkg) are fully featured and behave very similar to the Ubuntu builds. However, you do not currently have to download a “common” package - the FreeBSD packages are self-sufficient.

Curses builds for Windows (sciteco-pdcurses_2.5.2_win64.zip) are based on PDCursesMod. The package contains both a console (sciteco.exe) and GDI window version (gsciteco.exe). The Windows Gtk+ version (sciteco-gtk3_2.5.2_win64.zip) is also shipped as a stand-alone ZIP and does not require installation.

The Mac OS X Curses build (sciteco-curses_2.5.2_macos_x86_64.tar.gz) is considered experimental and is not signed. You can extract it into your rootfs (tar xzf sciteco-curses_2.5.2_macos_x86_64.tar.gz -C /) or into any other directory since the binaries are relocatable. See also Mac OS Support in the Knowledge Base. Gtk+ builds for Mac OS are not currently provided.

For updating an existing ~/.teco_ini, have a look at the changes on fallback.teco_ini since the last release.

Here is the complete change log:

• sped up EQq<filename>$
• Curses/UNIX: It should be possible to interrupt more potentially blocking operations with CTRL+C (SIGINT).
• ^A is no longer executed in parse-only mode - fixes bogus warnings. Has been broken since v2.5.0.
• (!) ^A now supports a message severity level, so you can log warnings and errors as well.
• Added TANK MODE. Launch with EI^EQ[$SCITECOPATH]/tank.tes$
• support Groff v1.24.0 and later
• fnkeys.tes: When preserving the horizontal column, take the character representations and tab draw modes into account.
• SIGTERM/SIGHUP always quits. On GTK recovery files are always dumped first.
• decreased default recovery dumping interval to 120s
• (!) -$$ and -^C always return -1 now instead of passing down the prefix sign
• fixed scrolling at the end of a multi-line command-line
• fixed auto completion of two-character Q-register names
• ER updates ^S/^Y now as any other text insertion
• GTK: fixed –detach and support stdout/stderr redirections. Has been broken since v2.5.0.
• GTK: Fixed interaction between ^T and main input handling. Key presses are no longer missed and inserted into the command line later.
• Curses: handle window resizes when blocking in ^T and don’t return function keys. Also, filter out bogus key press events on PDCursesMod/WinGUI.
• Curses: fixed monochrome support. Has been broken since v2.5.0.
• Curses: fixed 16-color schemes and default colors (sciteco --no-profile) on 8-color terminals (like the Linux/FreeBSD VTs) Has been broken since v2.5.0.
• Curses: default colors are now closer to terminal.tes
• Curses: fixed colors on emulators with less than 256 color pairs (e.g. TERM=rxvt)
• Curses: support up to 32767 color pairs
• Curses: require wide-char support even on PDCurses
• fixed auto-completion of Unicode (non-ANSI) file names
• disallow replacing non-Unicode command lines via { and }
• Curses: fixed flickering of the hardware cursor on the command line. On the downside, this can result in the cursor being visible when drawing the buffer as well. Has been broken since v2.5.1.
• fallback.teco_ini: added commented-out line to disable the hardware cursor
• fallback.teco_ini: fixed exclusion of the unnamed buffer from custom margin and indention settings. Has been broken since v2.5.0.
• opener.tes: opener.check-recovery can be used in ~/.teco_ini to check for and warn about the presence of #recovery# files.

16B	Apr 19 22:42 ../
3.9M	Apr 20 00:28 sciteco-2.5.2.tar.gz
1.2M	Apr 20 00:53 sciteco-curses_2.5.2_freebsd-15.0_amd64.pkg
2.6M	Apr 20 02:00 sciteco-curses_2.5.2_macos_x86_64.tar.gz
4.1M	Apr 20 02:01 sciteco-curses_2.5.2_x86_64.AppImage
23M	Apr 20 02:02 sciteco-gtk3_2.5.2_win64.zip
1.3M	Apr 20 00:59 sciteco-gtk_2.5.2_freebsd-15.0_amd64.pkg
1.8M	Apr 20 02:02 sciteco-gtk_2.5.2_x86_64.AppImage
5.2M	Apr 20 02:02 sciteco-pdcurses_2.5.2_win64.zip