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NEWS
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Details of most user-visible changes.
Version 3.0 (first release since 2.07 back in January '93!)
* Scrapped old script language. Replaced by an (almost) standard
Lisp system.
* Ported to UNIX/X11, but Amigas are still supported.
* Much improved redrawing of buffers (it tries harder to only redraw
the minimum needed).
* Editing modes (included are modes for C, Jade-Lisp and Texinfo) to
aid in the editing of certain types of files. For example in c-mode
(the mode for editing C source files) the editor will attempt to
automatically indent lines the correct amount (although it will
occasionally make mistakes).
* Lisp module to read Info files with (Info is the GNU way of
formatting hypertext manuals). This can be used to read jade's
manual from inside the editor.
* Online help for functions/variables, etc..
* No longer saves preferences to a file, this must be done in Lisp
now (or in your .Xdefaults file for X)
* Windows are much more flexible in what they show, text files are
just a different kind of `buffer'. Any window can display any buffer
* Streams. These are a meta-class of Lisp objects which can have
stream operations performed on them (ie, read/write). Some objects
which can be classed as streams are: buffers, files on disk, strings,
user-supplied functions, [book]marks, processes (only in UNIX and
only as output streams), etc...
* Files can be automatically saved while they are being edited (so
that they can be recovered later if necessary)
* Scripts (files of Lisp) can be compiled for extra efficiency/speed.
* Default keybindings are more Emacs like (in fact, they are totally
different from in the last release)
* Options such as word-wrap or auto-indent are no longer hardcoded
into the editor. Now these have to be done in Lisp.
* ...