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From: "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Vile 7.3 Announcement
Date: 9 Dec 1997 13:52:28 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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hello --

i've just put vile 7.3 up for ftp at the usual place:

	ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/vile-7.3.tgz

and it should be mirrored soon at

	ftp://id.wing.net/pub/pgf/vile/vile-7.3.tgz

the PC binaries will appear soon, time permitting.  (I've built the OS/2
and DGJPP binaries; the WinNT binary is still out of date, but someone
offered recently to build it).

vile is a text editor which is extremely compatible with vi in terms of
"finger feel".  in addition, it has extended capabilities in many areas,
notably multi-file/multi-window editing and viewing, key rebinding, mouse
and real X window system support.

vile builds/runs on UNIX and equivalent (termcap/terminfo, X Window),
VAX/VMS, OS/2 (both native and EMX), MS-DOS (DJGPP), WinNT (console and
GUI, with Visual C/C++ 4.1).

Highlights since 7.2:

	+ lots of bug fixes, of course

	+ beginnings of perl interface

	+ macro-names are now recognized as commands, so the prefix
	  execute-procedure is not needed

	+ implement tags-completion

	+ reimplement tagignorecase mode

	+ rewrote internals of command/message line to make it a one-line
	  minibuffer

	+ change $shell to use $COMSPEC on OS/2, MS-DOS, etc.

	+ add fallback for tparam/tparm in tcap.c (for EMX, but usable for
	  genuine termcap systems such as SunOS 4.x), to support color.

	+ a more modular/extensible configure script

	+ new configure options:  --with-Xaw3d --with-neXtaw
	  --with-Xaw-scrollbars --with-drag-extension --disable-extensions
	  --disable-shell --with-dmalloc

	+ implement flash and mouse in OS/2 driver.

	+ new ports (WinNT GUI, OS/2's EMX environment)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey