JED 0.97-1b (beta) Available

JED is an Emacs-like text editor from John E. Davis, available for Unix,
VMS, OS/2, and DOS.

Version 0.97 will be the second OS/2 release. Changes from 0.96 appear
below. Briefly, JED "feels" like GNU Emacs, supporting shell, dired, info,
man, and ispell, and has undo. It requires less resources than GNU Emacs,
and can run under OS/2 1.x. The color syntax highlighting has been
enhanced in this release.

JED uses an extension (macro) language called S-Lang, which is C-like.
S-Lang may be of interest apart from JED, and a sample calculator is
included in the sources to show how S-Lang can be used in applications.

JED can be compiled to use X-windows under Unix and DECWindows under VMS.
Mouse support for the OS/2 and DOS versions is planned.

Executables can be found in 

   amy.tch.harvard.edu:pub/jed/jed097-1b_os2.zip

(this file will initially be in pub/jed/incoming/). You will need the main
JED distribution also, available as a compressed tar file in the same
directory.

Bug reports are welcomed. Submit OS/2-specific reports to 
hankedr@mail.auburn.edu, other reports to the author.

History

John E. Davis <davis@amy.tch.harvard.edu> created JED and S-Lang in  July
1992, leading to releases for Unix, VMS, and DOS. John Burnell
<johnb@huia.grace.cri.nz> began the work on the OS/2 port in the Fall  of
1993, resulting in the first release (0.96) for OS/2 1.x--2.x.

Additional contributions come from Darrel Hankerson 
<hankedr@mail.auburn.edu>, who is responsible for the Microsoft C and
emx/gcc versions, and Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk>. 

Changes and new features found in JED since 0.96-2:

 -1. Emacs style completion added-- press tab to show
     completions, press space to cycle through them.  Note that
     pressing PageUp/Down keys will scroll from completion
     buffer.
  0. Bug fixes
  1. Massive restructuring.  Keymaps, Searching, and
     Terminal I/O moved to S-Lang. 
  2. color syntax highlighting in FORTRAN, TeX, and C modes.
  3. TeX mode enhanced--- more to come.
  4. ``menu'' bar can now be hidden-- see jed.rc.
  5. More hooks: c_mode_hook, tex_mode_hook, text_mode_hook,
     wrap_hook
  6. Better documentation on hooks (see doc/hooks.txt).
  7. showkey binding changed to `Ctrl-H k'.  Also rectangle
     commands are now bound in emacs.sl to emacs bindings.
  8. Mute (Dead or accent) key support added.  See jed.rc
  9. gzipped info file support added for MSDOS
 10. Alt key processing for X-Windows fixed.
 11. Significant additions to dired, e.g, `~' flags all backup
     files.
 12. `set_color_esc' removed.  It will be replaced by something
     better in the future.  If you are using this, remove
     references to it.

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