Topic: Preliminary VEDIT 6.13 (1 of 3), Read 44 times
Conf: VEDIT Macro Library
From: Ted Green
Date: Monday, September 06, 2004 01:24 PM

A preliminary VEDIT 6.13 is now available at:

http://www.vedit.com/download/beta/vw-pro64.exe

Here is the veditlog.txt file so far:

VEDIT LOG (veditlog.txt)
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09/04/04 6.13.1
New "Open with VEDIT" in Explorer's right-click context menu
New {EDIT, Convert, Flat to CSV} converts flat data files to CSV
Improved Unicode (UTF-16) conversion to/from ANSI and OEM chars
Improved regular expression support for "|" and "\b"
Now supports up to 129 tab stops up to column 65,535
Now supports search/replace strings of up to 1000 chars
Fix - Pro64 didn't calculate huge line # correctly
Fix - File-open dialog box didn't remember last file type
Fix - Unsupported search regular expression "*?" could crash
Fix - Combination word-wrap and record mode could lock up
Fix - On-line help for {ESCAPE} menu could crash
Obscure - COMMAND: prompt line editing confused by task switching
Obscure - syntax error in VEDIT.CFG file could crash
Technical - New Key_Shift_Status command
Technical - New Version_Num(EXTRA) command option
Technical - New Version_Date command
Technical - New FILE-REN.VDM, DDIR-REC.VDM macros
Technical Fix - Dir_Date() didn't add "/" to long directory names
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The new {EDIT, Convert, Flat to CSV} function is quite elaborate (1600 line macro) which is based on our EBCDIC conversion macro.

I still plan to add Christian's "TABFIX" macro as a "CSV to Flat" function.

The latest Unicode conversion macros are included. Thank you again for everyone work on these. :-))

The new vshellx.dll (first and only DLL so far) implements the long requested "open with VEDIT" function for all files in Explorer.

I increased the number of tab stops in the Windows version to 129, but I should probably go to 256 to match Excel's max # of fields.

The max search/replace strings are now 1000 chars (previously 260).

Many of the macro submitted here are included - FILE-REN.VDM, DDIR-REC.VDM, B64-IN.VDM, B64-OUT.VDM. Please let me know if I missed something.

Hopefully, most of the recently reported bugs are fixed. Some obscure fixes are not mentioned in the veditlog.txt file. I will try to reply to each reported bug report tomorrow.

The regular expressions have been enhanced (and some bugs fixed).

Regular Search/replace regular expressions have been enhanced. The
Expressions "|" (OR) operator can now be used within "{...|...}" groups.
Also, "\b" anchors at any non-alphanumeric character. E.g.
the words mother, father, grandfather, grandmother would be
matched by: \b{mother|father|grand{mother|father}}\b

I haven't update the on-line help yet with all these changes, but will ASAP.

Ted.

 


Topic: Preliminary VEDIT 6.13 (2 of 3), Read 43 times
Conf: VEDIT Macro Library
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Monday, September 06, 2004 01:25 PM

On 9/5/2004 2:06:21 AM, Ted Green wrote:
>A preliminary VEDIT 6.13 is
>now available at:
>
>http:\\www.vedit.com\download\
>beta\vw-pro64.exe


Thanks Ted,

I have downloaded Version 6.13.1 and it works very nicely for me.


Now I would like to give you a progress report. I have chosen the safest installation option. That is to say I have asked INSTALLW.VDM to move my present c:\vedit directory to c:\veditold. In the process, my USTARTUP.VDM and COMPILE.CNF files were overwritten by INSTALLW.VDM. After copying back my original files, Vedit 6.13.1 works like a charm!

I wonder, whether it would be possible to copy COMPILE.CNF to COMPILE.ORG and in case there is already a COMPLIE.CNF file only install COMPILE.ORG. Or, maybe copy data as is done for the the other configuration files.

Actually, this is only a minor cosmetic issue for me. The other cometic issue that is more important for me is the language subdirectory. I believe that in a previous message you mentioned that you plan to create such a subdirectory and move all .syn files into it.

Thanks again, for a great update.

-peter.

 


Topic: Re: Preliminary VEDIT 6.13 (3 of 3), Read 42 times
Conf: VEDIT Macro Library
From: Ted Green
Date: Monday, September 06, 2004 12:01 AM

At 10:23 PM 9/5/2004, you wrote:
>Now I would like to give you a progress report. I have chosen the safest installation option. That is to say I have asked INSTALLW.VDM to move my present c:\vedit directory to c:\veditold. In the process, my USTARTUP.VDM and COMPILE.CNF files were overwritten by INSTALLW.VDM. After copying back my original files, Vedit 6.13.1 works like a charm!

If you "move" your existing files, then yes, they will be overwritten in their original locations. That is the intention; after all, you have a copy.

However, with a default installation, any existing ustartup.vdm and compile.cnf file are not overwritten. I suppose I could then save a compile.org file, but this hasn't changed much in several years.

Thank you for your feedback on the installation. I'm glad it worked OK for you.

Ted.