Re: Fwd: jEdit 5.5.0 is out!

Nice! Vampire, Alan -- would this be something that should be made
available on the downloads page?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Jesse Pavel <[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, if anyone has machines that are stuck at Java 7 (there are a
> few Windows XP machines around my place that don't have Java 8 because it's
> not officially supported on XP), I have a jedit.jar built from SVN for Java
> 7 that you can use in place of the jedit.jar that comes with the installer:
>
>   https://app.box.com/s/5l5b3bc5ph22m9crmq1vsglw318p9m76
>
> Cheers,
> Jesse
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:26 PM, sigzero <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Awesome!
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Vampire <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I proudly present jEdit 5.5.0, the first stable release of the 5.5
>>> series of jEdit.
>>>
>>> Detailed changes can as always be found in the Change Log attached in
>>> the end of this email, but here are some of the major features of this
>>> version:
>>>
>>>     * Untitled buffers are now also autosaved
>>>     * Autosave files can be stored inside a certain directory like
>>> backup files instead of besides the original file
>>>     * jEdit's launcher and core have both been tested with Java 9.
>>> Some of the plugins (e.g. Lucene) may not yet be compatible, but at
>>> least the core works fine on it now
>>>
>>>
>>> Volunteers are always welcome to contribute to the future of jEdit:
>>> http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=devel
>>>
>>>
>>> That being said, here is the download link:
>>> http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download
>>>
>>>
>>> Have fun with the new release.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Björn "Vampire" Kautler
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> jEdit 5.5 version history
>>>        (changes since jEdit 5.4.0)
>>> :encoding=UTF-8:
>>>
>>> {{{ Version 5.5.0
>>>
>>> Thanks to Björn "Vampire" Kautler, AdamS, Wim West, M. Cesar R. Lacruz,
>>> Egor Abramovich, Hrotkó Gábor, Alan Ezust, Dale Anson, Roman Tsourick,
>>> Rafal Kolanski, Uwe Stöhr, Matthieu Casanova, A. Vontobel and Jesse
>>> Pavel for
>>> contributing to this release.
>>>
>>> {{{ Bug Fixes
>>>
>>> - Fix and cleanup various localization properties (Björn "Vampire"
>>> Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Make the Display_Shortcuts.bsh macro work properly (Björn "Vampire"
>>> Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Do not manipulate filename when opening a probably backup file but let
>>> the
>>>   user choose what to do as intended (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Fix jEdit backup filename recognition (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Do not use translated strings to match log lines within activity.log in
>>>   Make_Bug_Report.bsh (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Support Java 9 and newer in the Windows EXE launcher
>>>   (Bug #4064 - Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Fix splash screen progress call count not being equal in all code
>>> branches /
>>>   parameter combinations (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Fix splash screen progress count, so that the progress bar finally
>>> reaches
>>>   the right end (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Fix a bug preventing jEdit from loading when a buffer has an invalid
>>>   selection and is loaded in two edit panes (Matthieu Casanova)
>>>
>>> - RegisterViewer editable contentPane fixed (Patch #598, Jesse Pavel)
>>>
>>> - Command line behavior for +line fixed (Patch #590 - Wim West)
>>>
>>> - Autosave Untitled Buffers is now persistent across sessions
>>>   (Feature Request #501, Patch #596, Patch #614, Fix Bug #4059 - Hrotkó
>>> Gábor)
>>>
>>> - Fixed a number of bugs in the new jEdit printing system (Dale Anson)
>>>
>>> - Add missing local properties to Insert_Buffer_Properties macro
>>>   (Patch #599 - Jesse Pavel)
>>>
>>> - Fixed an issue with the activity log viewer so that setting the number
>>> of
>>>   lines in the log actually works. (Dale Anson)
>>>
>>> - Fix for bug #3971, exception trying to set WM_CLASS. (Dale Anson)
>>>
>>> - Fix for bug #4047, illegal reflective access operation with Java 9.
>>>   (Dale Anson)
>>>
>>> - Fix Bug #4011, The Cut Lines macro gives exception if the cursor is
>>> beyond
>>>   text area (Patch #600, Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Fix for bug #541, let ESC key close the print dialog. (Dale Anson)
>>>
>>> }}}
>>> {{{ UI Improvements
>>>
>>> - Consistently use lowercase status bar indicators for disabled settings
>>>   (Björn "Vampire" Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Allow specification of fallback font sizes (Patch #569, Rafal Kolanski)
>>>
>>> - Show tooltips in ShortcutOptionPane table (FR# 538, Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - FSB: Disable first column dragging (Patch# 603, Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - FSB: Sorting icon not following header when moving
>>>   (Bug# 4049, Patch# 604, Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> }}}
>>> {{{ Miscellaneous
>>>
>>> - FR #506, FR #536: Autosaves are now saved to the Autosave directory, if
>>>   specified. (Alan Ezust, Hrotkó Gábor)
>>>
>>> - FR #175: Saving and backup option, "Never Mark Untitled Buffers Dirty"
>>> changed
>>>   name and behavior to "Close Dirty Untitled buffers without
>>> confirmation"
>>>   (Alan Ezust)
>>>
>>> - Patch #612, fr #518: buffer lock (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Enhancements of russian localization (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> }}}
>>> {{{ Editing
>>>
>>> - Shipped JavaDocs are now working properly if viewed with a browser as
>>>   JavaScript parts are no longer stripped off, just the noscript tags
>>> that
>>>   inform about disabled JavaScript are removed. ((Björn "Vampire"
>>> Kautler)
>>>
>>> - Patch #607: C and C++ mode updates (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Patch #613: javascript mode update (up to ES 2017) (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Patch #608, bug #2106: PHP mode "//" comment syntax highlighting is
>>> incorrect
>>>   (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Patch #609, bug #2194: ASP Syntax highlight bug w/comment (Roman
>>> Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Patch #610, bug #4054: hash comment highlighting in mysql mode
>>>   (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - Patch #611, bug #3249: assembler-x86 comment directive (Roman Tsourick)
>>>
>>> - nsis2 mode updates (Uwe Stöhr - Patch #606)
>>>
>>> - Draw2d mode updates (A.Vontobel - Patch #605)
>>>
>>> - Add Gherkin mode (english) to support Cucumber feature files
>>>   (Matthieu Casanova)
>>>
>>> - Patch #593 - Various small patches to modes (AdamS)
>>>
>>> - Patch #592 - for groovy mode (Egor Abramovich)
>>>
>>> - Patch #595 - New Assembly-arm32 edit mode (M. Cesar R. Lacruz)
>>>
>>> - Updated java-module-info mode (Dale Anson)
>>>
>>> }}}
>>>
>>> }}}
>>>
>>> jEdit buffer local properties:
>>> :maxLineLen=80:wrap=hard:autoIndent=simple:noTabs=true:inden
>>> tSize=2:tabSize=2:
>>> :folding=explicit:collapseFolds=2:
>>>
>>>
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