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- NEWS
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- Details of most user-visible changes.
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- Version 3.0 (first release since 2.07 back in January '93!)
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- * Scrapped old script language. Replaced by an (almost) standard
- Lisp system.
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- * Ported to UNIX/X11, but Amigas are still supported.
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- * Much improved redrawing of buffers (it tries harder to only redraw
- the minimum needed).
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- * 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).
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- * 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.
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- * Online help for functions/variables, etc..
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- * No longer saves preferences to a file, this must be done in Lisp
- now (or in your .Xdefaults file for X)
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- * 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...
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- * Files can be automatically saved while they are being edited (so
- that they can be recovered later if necessary)
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- * Scripts (files of Lisp) can be compiled for extra efficiency/speed.
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- * Default keybindings are more Emacs like (in fact, they are totally
- different from in the last release)
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- * Options such as word-wrap or auto-indent are no longer hardcoded
- into the editor. Now these have to be done in Lisp.
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- * ...
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