Topic: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (1 of 8), Read 36 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ted Green
Date: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 01:51 PM

I have placed the new VEDIT 6.20.1 on our website as the "default" download for the current version. I have not yet mentioned it on the website, but will in a few days after a bit more testing.

My most recent changes include:
* Better integration and documentation of the new ctags functions.
* There is now both a "Lookup" and a "Return" function with optional hot-keys.
* Functions are duplicated in {MISC, More Macros} and the default {TOOLS} menus

* Completing the "What's New" section in the built-in help file.

* Making the existing serial numbers work until 2017.

You can download the current version from:

www.vedit.com/download/vpa-prod.exe

If no major problem pop in the next few days, it will be the official 6.20.1 release.
Obviously not everything is "done and perfect" and minor updates will be quickly forthcoming.

Thank you everyone.

Ted Green.

 


Topic: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (2 of 8), Read 29 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Thursday, May 05, 2011 02:10 AM

Help Status Display often causes vedit to crash (usually not the first time)
(I am using XP SP3.)

Calendar crashes because calendar.syn is missing.


A few other minor observations:-


I installed the new Vedit in a new directory so I could try side by side with existing.

I changed to icon to the 5th in the list (Blue Vedit), which works, but the small icon in the shortcut menu and TaskBar do not change, even though I notice the small icons are in vpw.exe

Find repeated words in USER.MNU is still using the old regex syntax.


The Help is very limited compared to the old.
Maybe this could be improved with work, but is not a show stopper.

The "Search" tab does not find much. It only seems to work with whole words e.g. regex find nothing, although regexp does.

"Search" "Index" and "Favorites" only find the start of the Topic.
This is not much help "Regular Expressions" is 16 screens down from its bookmark or index entry.


The status line font still defaults to Fixedsys, Lucida Console would be better.


I have MaxMRU=10
The 10th entry only shows "0" (but then so did previous versions).

 


Topic: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (3 of 8), Read 18 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 07:02 AM

On 5/4/2011 1:51:53 PM, Ted Green wrote:
>
> My most recent changes include:
> * Better integration and
> documentation of the new ctags
> functions.

I notice you have updated the help topic of ctags. However, it is not quite up-to-date.

The sentence "utags.vdm only looks for the tags file in the current directory" is not true. Utags.vdm searches tags from current file's directory and it's parent directories.

The instructions to copy utags.vdm to local directories and to modify the File_Open() command are not valid. In Windows, copying the macro to "local directory" does not cause it to be used, since current directory is probably not the same as current file's directory. And modifying the File_Open command is not recommended, since it would break the advanced functionality of finding the tags file.
You only need to have one tags file at your project root. However, you can have multiple tags files at different parts of the project directory tree if required.

The Help says "You can nest these lookup at least 10 levels down". Actually, there is no limit in how many levels can be nested.

You suggest using F12 for ctags lookup and Ctrl-F12 for return.
I would suggest using F12 for "C function show/select", since it is a less drastic operation, Ctrl-F12 for ctags lookup and Shift-Ctrl-F12 for return. (Using Shift for reverse operation is common in Windows programs.)
The configuration option in utags.vdm configures return key as Shift-Ctrl-F12, not Ctrl-F12 as you say in the help file.

>
> * Completing the "What's New"
> section in the built-in help
> file.

I can not find "What's New" section in the Help.
Several other sections from the old Help are missing, too.

--
Pauli

 


Topic: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (4 of 8), Read 19 times, 1 File Attachment
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 07:11 AM

On 5/4/2011 1:51:53 PM, Ted Green wrote:
> I have placed the new VEDIT
> 6.20.1 on our website as the
> "default" download for the
> current version. I have not
> yet mentioned it on the
> website, but will in a few
> days after a bit more testing.

Some of the supplied macros are old versions.
Newer versions that are more compatible with Vista and Win7 have been posted at WebBoard earlier.
- veditpdf.vdm ( see http://webboard.vedit.com/read?63913,31 )
- opencurs.vdm ( see http://webboard.vedit.com/read?55276,34 )

My latest version of veditpdf.vdm is attached. It is the same as the one in the link above, but I have cleaned the comments a bit.

--
Pauli

 
VEDITPDF(4).VDM (4KB)

 


Topic: Re: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (5 of 8), Read 18 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 02:20 PM

On 04.05.2011 19:54 in vedit-betatest Ted Green wrote:
>
> If no major problem pop in the next few days,
> it will be the official 6.20.1 release.
> Obviously not everything is "done and perfect" and
> minor updates will be quickly forthcoming.

I tried to install 6.20.1 as "Single" install in parallel
to my existing 6.1 installation as I did with two of the
6.2 beta versions.

And I got similar problems as before (reported here in
February and March).

Since there haven't been any replies to my messages
I'm not sure if I'm the only one having those problems.
Hmmmm.
Or is no one using VEDIT on Windows XP any more?

I'm no longer using VEDIT on daily business (I'm on Linux now),
and so I'm not very experienced in finding and reporting problems
in VEDIT these days.

If I should try to provide more (or repeat the) details please let me know.

Or perhaps the bug reports are going to better take place via mail???


Christian - puzzled, at least a little bit

 


Topic: Re: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (6 of 8), Read 21 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 07:42 PM

On 5/11/2011 2:20:14 PM, Christian Ziemski wrote:

>I tried to install 6.20.1 as "Single"
>install in parallel
>to my existing 6.1 installation as I did
>with two of the
>6.2 beta versions.
>
>And I got similar problems as before
>(reported here in
>February and March).
>
>Since there haven't been any replies to
>my messages
>I'm not sure if I'm the only one having
>those problems.
>Hmmmm.
>Or is no one using VEDIT on Windows XP
>any more?

I am still using XP, but I saw no reason to change from putting configuration files in the vedit directory, so did not see the issue.

In fact, after initial testing I went back to the previous version because vedit crashed too often.

>I'm no longer using VEDIT on daily
>business (I'm on Linux now),

I don't use Windows much these days either.
I had been using GNU/Linux for a while, and recently got a MacBook Pro (I run XP and Ubuntu in virtual machines).

It would be nice to have vedit for OSX and GNU/Linux.
Vedit is one of the programs I miss (mainly for the macros).
As vedit a written in assembler I imagine most of the code could be ported to Intel OSX (which is Unix) or GNU/Linux.

I am currently teaching myself Cocoa, and planning to port some of my programs - by partitioning the program logic and OS specific code (mainly I/O and file access).

 


Topic: Re: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (7 of 8), Read 18 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 01:49 AM

On 5/11/2011 2:20:14 PM, Christian Ziemski wrote:
>On 04.05.2011 19:54 in vedit-betatest
>Ted Green wrote:
>>

>
>I tried to install 6.20.1 as "Single"
>install in parallel
>to my existing 6.1 installation as I did
>with two of the
>6.2 beta versions.
>
>And I got similar problems as before
>(reported here in
>February and March).
>
>Since there haven't been any replies to
>my messages
>I'm not sure if I'm the only one having
>those problems.
>Hmmmm.
>Or is no one using VEDIT on Windows XP
>any more?
>

Dear Professor Christian,

I am using Vedit on Windows XP and I was not sure whether you expected me to reply to your message.
In fact, I would like to come back to your experiments later.


Now, I would like to give you a very informal self survey.
In short, for me Version 6.20.1 was a very welcome change.
Let me emphasize again that I am not a power user. As you know, my use is limited to compiling my .tex files and to some applications that are not in the main stream.

With Version 6.15 my main problem was to shell to DOS.
Thanks to you and Ian, this was easy to solve. However, it was a bit clumsy to use my own menu. So, it was a welcome change that I could use the built in Vedit menu. For me Vedit 6.20.1 did not crash. That is to say for my limited use it did not crash.

-peter

 


Topic: Re: VEDIT 6.20.1 released (8 of 8), Read 18 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:41 PM

On 18.05.2011 07:49 vedit-in betatest Peter Rejto wrote:
> 5/11/2011 2:20:14 PM, Christian Ziemski wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure if I'm the only one having those problems.
>>Hmmmm.
>>Or is no one using VEDIT on Windows XP any more?
>
> Dear Professor Christian,
>
> I am using Vedit on Windows XP and I was not sure whether
> you expected me to reply to your message.

Dear Dr. Peter,

I didn't expect an answer, especially not from a distinct person.

I simply was puzzled about the fact that there haven't been ANY replies.


> For me Vedit 6.20.1 did not crash.

Ted will be happy to read this! ;-)


Christian