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1.0  16-08-92

 --- First release to the unsuspecting public.
     Sent to SIMTEL and comp.binaries.os2.

1.1  17-05-93

 --- Bug fixes:
     o A file with no end of line character on the last line, the last
       line would not be included in the file.
     o Characters that are in blocks retain their highlighting now.
     o Fixed schange under DOS and OS/2. Cursor is now positioned
       correctly.
     o Writing out a file will now produce an error if the disk is
       full and not write part of the file.
     o GET and PUT now recognise ~ in Unix version.
     o PREFIX ON now no longer requires the LEFT|RIGHT option. Defaults
       to LEFT.
     o TABPRE (to tab between main and prefix areas) now does nothing
       if PREFIX is OFF.
     o 'bleeding' through of one file to another on BSDish systems now
       fixed.
 --- New commands:
     o BOX BLOCK COPY/MOVE/DELETE/FILL/OVERLAY
     o LINE BLOCK COPY/MOVE/DELETE
     o FILLBox
     o sos_makecurr
     o [SET] DIRInclude
     o [D]OSNowait/[D]OSQuiet
     o = (re-execute command)
     o [SET] CMDArrows
     o [SET] CMDline
     o [SET] NEWlines
     o [SET] MSGMode
     o [SET] MACROPath
     o [SET] IMPMACro
     o [SET] NUMber
     o [SET] HEX
     o [SET] CLEARScreen
     o [SET] Point
     o [SET] REXXOUTput
     o [SET] CLOCK
     o [SET] HEXDISPlay
     o SOS DOPREfix
     o the target ALL has been implemented. This is NOT the ALL command.
     o MACRO - execute commands from a file
     o UPPercase, LOWercase
     o SHift
     o DUPlicate
     o EXPand
     o STATus
     o Query
     o EMSG
     o SUSPend
     o REDRAW
     o MODIFY
     o TEXT
     o prefix commands: a,i,c,m,d,",<,>,/,cc,mm,dd,"",<<,>>,.xxxxx
 --- Changed commands:
     o insertmode now requires a parameter: ON|OFF|TOGGLE
     o spltjoin now correctly aligns the new line under the focus line
     o sos_* commands have been changed to separate sos commands
     o REFRESH command now consistant with XEDIT and KEDIT. Use REDRAW
       for old REFRESH functionality.
 --- New features:
     o REXX support under OS/2 and Unix(with Regina 0.05)
     o argument passing to REXX macros/profiles
     o EXTRACT
     o Capture REXX trace and Say output to a file in the ring.
 --- Commands removed (temporarily)
     o SCREEN

1.2 27-06-93 (Not officially released)

 --- Bug fixes:
     o Previous command line contents were remaining when 'sos undo' was
       executed on command line.
     o THE core dumped when a 'DELETE' command was present in a profile file.
     o THE now displays line numbers > 32k correctly.
     o Display of long filename in window wider than 80 chars now correct.
     o [SET] CURLine now works when called from a profile file
 --- New commands:
 --- Changed commands:
 --- New features:
     o THE now handles either forward (/) or back (\) slashes in path
       names and converts them automatically. So you can specify d:/path
       under DOS and OS/2 or \usr\bin under Unix. All paths are displayed
       on the idline with the default OS path separator.
     o added new external function, valid_target() to simplify REXX macros
     o added new single character indicator on right end status line to
       indicate if REXX support is present.
       Meanings of indicators:
        First character: (colour support)
         C - curses library supports colour and so does monitor
         c - curses library supports colour but monitor doesn't
         M - curses library does not support colour
        Second character: (REXX support)
         R - THE compiled with REXX support
           - (blank) THE compiled without REXX support

1.3 15-08-93

 --- Bug fixes:
     o Fixed bug with line block delete and cursor positioning.
     o number of files being editted no longer gets out of sync when
       an attempt to edit a new file is aborted (usually because line
       is too long)
     o Fixed bug in uppercase/lowercase when target was "BLOCK".
     o sos tabwordb, sos tabwordf, and sos delword now correctly go the
       start/end of the word if that word exceeds the width of the screen.
 --- New commands:
     o SOS CURSORAdj
     o SOS DELWord
     o [SET] MARgins
     o [SET] WORDWrap
     o SPlit
     o Join
 --- New features:
     o Changed the highlighting of "non-printable characters" under Unix.
     o emx 0.8g compiler support now working (excluding REXX)
     o wordwrap has been added
 --- Changes:
     o The names of environment variables and the location of default
       help and profile files has changed. See the file appendix.1 or
       Appendix 1 of the.man for details.

1.4 01-09-93 (Not officially released)

 --- Bug fixes:
     o Changed the method for determining the filename of a backup file
       under OS/2. Originally, if drive type not = FAT, .bak was
       appended to full file name. Now only if drive type = HPFS is
       .bak appended.
     o Alteration count was being set to zero when saving a file and the
       file could not be saved.
     o Fixed a few minor bugs in DUPLICATE command.
 --- New commands:
     o Added support for semi-colon specifying an absolute line target
 --- Changed commands:
 --- New features:
     o Added support for ncurses under linux. ncurses still has a bug
       (I believe) that causes some characters to not be cleared.
     o emx 0.8g port now has REXX support
     o DUPLICATE 1 BLOCK assigned to Alt-D (DOS/OS2) and ControlD (UNIX)
 --- Changes:


1.5 01-12-93

 --- Bug fixes:
     o It is now possible to issue the commands; EDIT,THE and XEDIT
       from within a macro or profile file.
     o [SET] CASE settings now inherited by subsequent files editted.
     o [SET] CASE now does not reset settings to default if they are
       not specified; it leaves the values as they were last set.
     o default value for ZONE end is now the maximum line width not
       32766 (maximum possible line length)
     o Bug in CHANGE command.
       If specifying a trailing space to change a string at the end of
       a line to null, one too many characters were removed.
       eg. c/_N // * 1   a line ending in abc_N ended up ending
           in ab
       When changing text at the end of a line and specify more than
       one space at the end of the target, the target is never found.
       eg. c/_N  // * 1   a line ending in abc_N will not be found
       Handling of spaces after the real end of the line handled
       correctly now.
     o Fixed a bug on Unix systems where a key that returned nul would
       execute 'add 1'.
     o Changed the default handling of 'sos delback' and 'sos delchar'
       under UNIX.
       The default key sequences of these keys has been reversed. If you
       prefer to keep the old definitions, define OLD_DELCHAR_DELBACK on
       the compile line. This option will disappear in a future version
       so if you are really attached to the old behaviour, you had
       better let me know and have a good reason :-) Thanks to Andreas
       Schott for pointing this out!
     o Added SRC line to makefile for SystemVR4 block.
     o The default value for THE_HOME_DIR under Unix is /opt/THE, if
       SYSVR4 is defined when compiling or /usr/local/THE otherwise. The
       major change is the uppercasing of THE (THE's correct acronym)
     o [SET] MACROPATH now sets the correct path value.
     o Fixed bug with prefix command like 'aa'. The A command would be
       executed with a large number of lines added or you would get
       a core dump :-(
     o After bringing a suspended THE session to the foreground, THE
       correctly refreshes.
     o When shelling out, the screen attributes are returned to NORMAL,
       at least on some platforms;
     o Fixed the occasional strange behaviour of the command line having
       some of the contents of the prefix area. (It was VERY obscure!)
     o SOS DELWORD would increment ALT and not allow SOS UNDO to work.
     o C-ENTER now valid for DOS and OS/2 versions.
     o Ignore any command issued from a macro file if no more files are
       left in the ring.
     o Changed the method for splitting a path and filename under DOS and
       OS/2. Hopefully fewer problems with ending up in the wrong
       directory. This has also worked around the bug in BCOS2.
     o Reexecute command,= should now reexecute the last statement
       correctly.
     o Printing under Unix more than once now works.
     o Fixed a few bugs with PUT and GET.
 --- New commands:
     o Added TERMINAL, LASTMSG, MONITOR, POINT [*], PREFIX [SYNONYM name|*]
       PENDING, GETENV and BLOCK extract
       options.
     o Added REXX macro for summing the contents of a marked BOX block.
     o Added REXX macro for matching paired words like #ifdef/#endif.
     o Added SORT command.
     o Added [SET] LINEND command to support multiple commands on a line.
     o Added [SET] ETMODE to indicate if extended characters should be
       displayed. This is designed to handle foreign languages that use
       the ASCII characters > 127.
     o Added [SET] NONDisp to specify what character is displayed if
       extended characters are not to be displayed.
     o Added [SET] PENDing to assist with writing block prefix macros.
     o Added [SET] IMPOS/IMPcmscp to allow operating system commands
       to be executed from the command line without the need to prefix
       the command with OS or !.
     o Added COMMAND command (Just for Ian Collier ;-))
 --- Changed commands:
     o Added extra argument to [SET] CASE to determine case significance
       in SORT command.
     o The order of EXTRACT /VERSION/ and QUERY VERSION options has
       changed.
     o BOTTOM command makes the last line of the file the current line
       instead of the *** Bottom of file *** line.
     o INPUT [text] command results in the line becoming the current
       line instead of the previous line, when issued from the command
       line.
     o Overhaul of commands that add a new line to fix a few bugs.
     o STATUS now displays in 3 columns; I was starting to run out of
       space with 2 columns. The item name is also highlighted.
     o When compiled with REXX support, [SET] PREFIX now supports
       prefix synonyms.
     o PUT and PUTD now work with BLOCK as the target.
     o [SET] TABKey changed to be simpler.
     o [SET] ARBchar, TABSIn, TABSOut changed to allow their second
       parameters to be specified with the OFF option.
     o STATus command now has optional filename parameter.
     o [SET] TABS now has 'INCR' as first operand when EXTRACTing or
       Querying the value.
     o MODIFY/QUERY of CMDLINE does not contain 2nd operand. This value
       is only returned as a result of EXTRACT.
     o There is no need to supply a final '/' with the EXTract command.
 --- New features:
     o REXX support for DOS is now available. This version, supplied as
       a separate archive, contains the THE executable linked with a DOS
       port of Regina. This version contains a DOS extender, so only runs
       on 386s or above. This version was compiled with DJGPP, a DOS port
       of GNU gcc. Included is go32.exe, which is the DOS extender.
     o By default all THE macros are expected to have a file name ending
       in ".the". The value for the macro file extension can be changed
       with the [SET] MACROEXT command. This default extension is only
       applicable to macros searched for in the THE_MACRO_PATH.
     o Added defines.h to specify limits which can be safely changed in
       the source code.
     o Added ability to execute multiple commands from command line and
       to assign multiple commands to a key.
     o Now have the option to display extended ASCII codes on Unix
       platforms.
     o Prefix macros can now be executed. Thanks to Dave Rittenhouse
       ([e-mail]) for adding this feature.
     o Prefix synonyms are also definable for REXX macros and standard
       prefix commands.
     o THE now compiles and runs with BCOS2.
     o Added -n command line switch to enable THE to be run without
       any profile file.
 --- Warnings:
     o There is an inconsistancy with Regina 0.05h in that the use of
       implied extract with some functions will corrupt values in THE.
       Implied extract functions that have been observed to corrupt, are
       fname.1() and fpath.1().


2.0 26-01-95

 --- Bug fixes:
     o Fixed cursor positioning error when screen was an odd number of
       columns wide.
     o Fixed problem with previous file's contents and command line
       remaining displayed when editting another file. (Only reported
       under AIX).
     o Changed code again to handle multiple commands on the command
       line AND to ignore commands issued when no files are in the
       ring (excluding any 'edit' commands).
     o Fixed DEFINE to not clear a key defintion until the validation
       of the new command(s) was complete.
     o Fixed problem with core dumps when a command was passed to the
       operating system from within a profile file.
     o Fixed bug in CURLINE when specfying a negative position. (Due to
       changing unsigned char to char)
     o Fixed bug in displaying extended characters in ETMODE.
     o Fixed bug in executing prefix commands after a TABPRE command.
     o Fixed bug in SHIFT LEFT when the length of the line being
       shifted was < first column of ZONE.
     o Text entered into the main window is displayed with the correct
       attributes.
     o Fixed bug in entering prefix commands when in the last column
       of the prefix area; the cursor would wrap to the next line; now
       it stays in the last column of the prefix area.
     o extracting values using an item abbreviation would result in
       the REXX macro being set to the abbreviation rather than the
       full name of the item. The full name of the extracted item is
       now used.
     o fixed a bug when moving a box block.
     o SPLIT, JOIN, and SPLTJOIN did not account for any pending
       prefix commands or marked block.
     o Changed all references to keyboard return values from short to
       int. This is for support of DEC OSF/1 platform.
     o The use of hex strings as an argument to the TEXT command
       defined to a key, caused problems. ie DEFINE F1 TEXT X'84'
       was altered after the first use of F1 key.
 --- New commands:
     o Added [SET] DISPLAY, SELECT, SHADOW, SCOPE.
     o Added ALL command.
     o Added CURSOR command.
     o Added LEFT, RIGHT and RGTLEFT commands.
     o Added CURSOR option to EXTRACT command.
     o Added TABL,SCALE,X,XX,S prefix commands.
     o Added [SET] RESERved , [SET] SCALE and [SET] TABLine commands.
     o Added [SET] COMPAT command, to attempt to mimic the default
       behaviour of XEDIT and KEDIT.
     o Added extra SOS commands:
       LEFTEDGE,RIGHTEDGE,PREFIX,QCMND,TABFIELDF,TABFIELDB,
       FIRSTCHAR,FIRSTCOL,LASTCOL,BOTTOMEDGE,TOPEDGE,CURRENT,
       MARGINL,MARGINR,PARINDENT,TABB.
     o Added new macros, rm.the to delete from disk the file on
       the focus line of the DIR.DIR file, and words.the to count
       the number of words to a target.
     o Added COLUMN and WORD options to MARK command.
     o added READV to enable a REXX macro to obtain keystrokes from THE.
     o added [SET] TYPEAHEAD, [SET] HEXSHOW commands
     o added [SET] STATUSLINE, [SET] MSGLINE, [SET] IDLINE commands
     o added [SET] POSITION command
 --- Changed commands or behaviour:
     o Default command for Alt-M/Ctrl-V is now MOVE BLOCK RESET not
       MOVE BLOCK.
     o FORward 0 now makes the "Top of File" line the current line.
     o BACkward 0 now makes the last line of the file the current line.
     o When the "Bottom of File" line is the current line, FORward
       will make the "Top of File" line the current line. Similarly
       for BACkward when on "Top of File".
     o [SET] CMDline OFF option added.
     o [SET] ARBchar now supports multiple character matches
     o In previous versions of THE, any line in a macro file, or
       profile file, that began with '/*' was treated as a comment
       line and the line ignored. For implementations of THE without
       REXX support, execution of a REXX macro caused mayhem. To
       overcome this situation, any macro file that is used with THE
       without REXX support must have as its first line the following
       string starting in column 1:
           /*NOREXX*/
       All other comments throughout the file can be valid REXX
       comments (ie. start and end with /* */)
     o A new boolean function incommand() has been added which
       has the same functionality of the previous command(). The
       boolean command() function now returns 1 if the command
       line is on.
     o Reinstated SOS EXECUTE command.
     o the valid_target() external function now returns two values;
       the first line affected by the target and the number of
       lines affected by the target. If the target is an invalid target
       ERROR is returned. If the target is valid, but the target is
       not found, NOTFOUND is returned. Sample macros altered to use
       new features.
     o NEXT and UP commands do not support negative relative targets.
       eg. NEXT -5 , UP -* are now invalid commands. This is to be
       consistent with XEDIT and KEDIT.
     o ADD command now can be specified as just "A" and when issued
       from the command line, moves the cursor to the first blank line
       added.
     o The default behaviour of the ENTER key has changed. When the
       ENTER key is hit while in the prefix area, if there are any
       pending prefix commands, they are executed, otherwise the cursor
       is moved to the first line of the next line as it used to do.
     o [SET] TABSIN ON in the profile file will not increment the
       ALT count, nor include the changed lines in the recovery list.
     o The SOS ENDCHAR command was incorrect in that it would move the
       cursor to the start of a line if the cursor was past the end of
       the line as well as moving the cursor to the end of the line if
       it wasn't past the end of the line. The correct behaviour of
       SOS ENDCHAR is to move to the end of the focus line no matter
       where the cursor currently is.  For those of you (like me) who
       are used to the old behaviour of SOS ENDCHAR, a new SOS command;
       STARTENDCHAR has been added to THE.
     o [SET] BACKUP now has TEMP and KEEP options.
     o The FILE command behaviour has been changed. Previous versions
       would not write out a new version of the file if the alteration
       count was zero and no filename was specified. FILE now behaves
       the same as XEDIT and KEDIT.
     o Added ability to specify individual tab columns in SET TABS
       command.
 --- New features:
     o Changed the method of displaying the screen. This was done to
       cater for shadow, tab,scale and reserved lines and to increase
       performance.
     o Added "-r" command line switch to operate THE in readonly mode.
       This is a real readonly mode; it is not possible to change the
       contents of the file.
     o Repeating targets with boolean operators are now supported.
     o The targets BLANK and ~BLANK are now supported.
     o A command can now follow a target on the command line without
       requiring a linend character separating the target and command.
       eg. :3 del
           is a valid command. You can even enter
           3 3 3 3
           on the command line to move the current line 12 lines.
     o Colour settings are now stored with the file, so different files
       can have different colours.
     o Wordwrap behaves like KEDIT wordwrapping. When the right-most
       character of the line exceeds the right margin, the last word
       wraps to the next line.
     o No limit (apart from available memory) on the number of prefix
       commands that may be entered. Used to be a limit of 20.
     o Key names no longer need to be expressed in exact case. C-A and
       c-a are equivalent. Also, where appropriate, keys have the same
       name across platforms.
     o THE now can be compiled with AIX Extended Curses. This enables
       colour support when run in an aixterm window.
 --- Known Bugs
     o [SET] ARBCHAR accepts the multiple matches argument but it is
       not implemented in target searches.
     o Problem with display and editting of 1 file in split screen
       mode sometimes.
     o MOVE BLOCK when the marked block is in a different file to
       the current file results in deletion of 1 line fewer from
       the source file. Cursor can also be left below the Bottom of File
       marker.
     o DUPLICATE BLOCK when issued with the a portion of the marked block
       not being displayed on the bottom of the screen can result in the
       cursor being moved to the current line rather than the screen
       scrolling.
     o move block when the target line is the last line of the screen
       causes the cursor to be positioned incorrectly
     o if any of [SET] SCALE, TABL, RESERVED or HEXSHOW are positioned
       on the current line row, then scrolling the screen up when
       the cursor is on the "*** Bottom of File ***" line does not work.
     o behaviour of prefix commands does not match XEDIT behaviour

todo (-) or done (*) not in any particular order
     * change *.hlp files to add select, display,scope, reserved, all
       as they become available
     * add colour support to Reserved
     * fix colour support - change PDCurses :-(
     * add full target parsing for all commands that use targets
     - support multiple arbchar matches in all string targets and in
       change command - memfind to return length of string found
     - check all commands do as much processing as possible from
       within a macro. only thing NOT to do is display the screen
       all commands should also only NOT execute curses commands if
       curses_started is FALSE.
     * fix named line targets when they are before the current line
     - bug when 2 screens displayed, one file, and a macro with 'qq'
       and 'x a.a' is executed. The first screen has a.a displayed,the
       second screen points to junk and crashes. Need to support an
       edit of one file to be displayed in both screens.
     * bug with "define A-A text x'84'" convert_hex_string() must
       return a separate pointer as the pointer passed to it can be
       the parameters to a defined key, and hence the value gets
       corrupted.
     - bug in move block from one file to another. removes 1 line less
       from source file than it should. also cursor position of source
       file can be left below the last line of the file.
     - bug with 'duplicate block' when block is on the bottom of screen;
       current line gets contents of block
     * copying a line block with embedded shadow line is all wrong
       either with marked block or prefix commands
     * complete MARK WORD support
     * sort - how do excluded lines get sorted out ?
     * append.the, comm.the and uncomm.the require changes in use of
       valid_target().
     * add to defines.h those #defines like NO_KEYPAD, NO_CURS_SET etc
     * make return from my_getch() int rather than short, also any key
       number should be int, not short (for DEC OSF/1)
     * determine why Solaris 2.3 version of THE and Regina 0.07a do
       not work with subcommands.
       This is a bug in Regina 0.07a - fixed.
     * determine why Esix optimised version fails with target searches
     - adjust focus line of other screen when 2 views of same screen
       are displayed and lines are added/deleted in current screen.
     * add EXTRACT /CURSOR/
     - add EXTRACT /FOCUS/ - maybe
     * add SOS TABB
     - COPY and MOVE commands to be consistent (add targets to MOVE)
     - change MACRO command to first look for keynames and execute
       command associated with keyname before looking for a macro file.
     - support READV CMDLINE option
     * complete EXTRACT CURSOR to return valid values for screen position
     - sos delword - cursor incorrectly positioned when verify column
       not column 1
     * COPY BLOCK with cursor on *** Bottom of File *** causes block
       to be copied AFTER *** Bottom of File *** line.
     - NEXTWINDOW command to clean up before it switches to another
       view when screen is split.
     * when entering characters into the current line with HEXSHOW ON
       does not update the HEXSHOW line.
     - Fix up warning messages when compiling with strict ANSI compiler.
     - Change DIR.DIR and REXX output file to be 'pseudo' files.
     - Allow all commands in profile file - need to run initscr() earlier
     - Add column commands CLOCATE,CINSERT,etc..
     * Be consistant with key names, so the same key name can be
       specified for all platforms. Other options:
       o Possibly change key handling to use curses getch() and
         terminfo/termcap instead of handling escape sequences myself.
       o Have [SET] KEYBIND command.
     - Provide REXX support under DOS with interface to Personal REXX.
     * Add LEFT and RIGHT commands and VERSHIFT variable.
     - Add REPEAT command
     - Add [SET] RANge
     * Complete the AIX Extended Curses version.
     - Still some cursor positioning bugs with prefix block deletes.
     - Add synonyms for commands
     - Printing with OS/2 version still doesn't work correctly.
     - Use Instore option on RexxStart() to execute in-memory macros
       eg. "define ENTER if command() Then 'sos execute'; Else
            Do 'cursor cmdline';'sos doprefix'; End"
     - add COMPRESS command (opposite of EXPAND)
     * change all calls to display error to indicate if bell to sound
       if on (n lines changed does NOT ring bell)
     - improve performance when editing large files