HELP NEWS.V10 A.Sloman Jan 1986
For most recent news see HELP * NEWS
1985
Aug 18 (John Williams)
--- Two VED utilities whose names were changed long ago, and subsequently
only advised users to type something else, have now been withdrawn.
They are:
VED_DEF (renamed VED_DEOF)
VED_PR (renamed VEDCOMPILEVEDARGUMENT i.e. <ENTER> :)
Aug 16 (John Williams)
--- Autoloadable VED procedure VEDCHARNEXT added.
See HELP *VEDPROCS /vedcharnext for details.
Aug 5 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- Several libraries that only worked on VMS have been removed from UNIX
machines. These include DCL, DELV, SYSCOMMANDS. Others have been
rewritten so that they should now work on UNIX machines (e.g. GREP) Still
others have been deleted altogther (e.g. PURGE (which did a SYSOBEY) and
EDT).
Aug 5 (Chris Slymon)
--- VEDPUTCOMMAND now inserts a COPY of it's argument into the command
buffer.
--- VEDDOINTERRUPT clears stack before returning to VEDPROCESS. T
Aug 1 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- LIB * GINREAD, *GRAPHIC, *POLY and DOC * TEKTRONIX have been issued
with notices warning that they might be removed or substantially altered
in future versions of POPLOG.
Aug 1 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- LIB OUTASCII has been removed. It could be simply defined as:
vars outascii = charout;
--- LIB BUFFIO has been removed as output is now buffered in any case. The
definition of it could be:
vars inascii = rawcharin, ttyflush = rawoutflush;
define outascii(c);
lvars c;
if c == termin then rawoutflush() else rawcharout(c); endif;
enddefine;
Aug 1 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- SYSISDIRECTORY(string) -> boolean;
This has been moved into the public library. See HELP * POPPROCS.
Jul 30 (John Williams)
--- A couple of minor bugs in LIB *GEOM3D fixed.
Jul 30 (A.Sloman)
LIB NEWOBJ - bug in |--> fixed. It did not assign the target
to 'self'
Jul 29 (John Williams)
--- POPLOG now includes a Common Lisp subsystem. See HELP *CLISP for more
details.
Jul 29 (John Williams)
--- HELP * LISPNEWS is now only for news items relevant to Common Lisp.
News concerning the old POPLOG Lisp system is in HELP *LISPNEWS.OLD
Jul 26 (John Williams)
--- VED_QSHOWLIB added (analogous to VED_QHELP).
See HELP *VEDCOMMS /ved_qshowlib
Jul 26 (John Williams)
--- Non-copying version of *MAPLIST, *NCMAPLIST, added to the auto-loadable
library.
Jul 26 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- MAPDATA altered to work on words.
NCMAPDATA (a non-copying version of MAPDATA) installed. This won't
work on words. See HELP * MAPDATA.
Jul 22
NEW PROLOG - SEE HELP * PLOGNEWS HELP * PROLOGBUGS
(New core implementation and more compatible with DEC-10 Prolog)
Jul 22 (John Gibson)
--- The concatenate operation "<>" has been changed so that it does not
produce a copy of one argument when the other is empty, e.g. list <> []
will just return list, '' <> string will just return string, etc. On lists
it is now also faster.
Jul 20 (A.Sloman)
LIB PRODSYS - new production-system interpreter by Allan Ramsay
and Mike Sharples, and TEACH PRODSYS replace LIB PSYS and
TEACH PSYS which will be withdrawn
Jul 19 (John Gibson)
--- The procedure sysopen now accepts the word "line" as a third argument
as an alternative to "record". In VMS Poplog this 'forces' the file to
have 'implicit c/r attribute', so that a newline is added to the end of
every record read. This surmounts the problem of text files without c/r
attribute containing empty records (i.e. blank lines), which caused
sysread to return 0 and made it appear that end of file had been reached.
Conversely, a third argument of "line" to syscreate will create a file
with implicit c/r attribute, and cause syswrite to strip a newline off the
end of each record written.
In Unix Poplog, "line" and "record" are identical, though for
compatibility you should switch to using "line".
Jul 17 (John Gibson)
--- (VMS only) Owing to problems with compatibility between source and
library files for VMS Poplog and Unix Poplog, the logical name USE$POP that
supplies the disk for the Poplog directory tree is to be changed to
USEPOP. In combination with a new facility for allowing filenames to be
specified in Unix format (see below), this will make it possible for
system source and library files using Unix filenames to be compatible with
VMS Poplog.
If you have the name USE$POP defined system-wide, you are advised to
change it to USEPOP (or add USEPOP in parallel) as soon as possible.
However, the standard command files [POP]LOGIN.COM, [POP.COM]POPLOG.COM
and [POP.COM]POPLIB.COM all define either name in terms of the other, so
that it should not be necessary to do this immediately.
--- (VMS only) A serious bug in "syscreate" and "sysopen" has been fixed.
This caused the system to crash while creating a device record, if a
garbage collection just happened to occur at the wrong point (this was
relatively infrequently, however).
--- (VMS only) The operation of "systranslate" has changed slightly. By
default, it now converts the input logical name to uppercase before
translation, and the result to lowercase. This is compatible with the idea
that logical names in the VMS tables are usually in uppercase, whereas
Poplog programs prefer to deal with lowercase. In addition, "sysassign"
for assigning to logical names has been made the updater of systranslate,
and this by default converts both the logical name and its required
translation to uppercase before doing the assignment. For a full
description, see REF * SYSUTIL.
--- (VMS only) The procedures "sysfileok" and "dir_><" now cope with
filenames in Unix format, translating them to VMS format. This means that
most parts of the system will now accept Unix style names.
See HELP * UNIX_FILENAMES.
--- (VMS only) "sys_real_time" has been added to VMS Poplog. As in the
Unix system, it returns the time in seconds since 00:00 1 Jan 1970.
See REF * SYSUTIL.
Jul 12 (John Williams)
--- Some library programs previously only available at Sussex have now
been moved into the main auto-loadable directory. See the following HELP
files for details:
*BITS_IN*BITS_OUT*NEWSPARSE*NEWANYSPARSE*FORMAT_PRINT
Jul 13 (Aaron Sloman)
--- LIB NEWOBJ now separates DEFAULT_ACTIONS from START_ACTIONS.
HELP * NEWOBJ expanded.
Jul 10 (John Williams)
--- NPR (as in SPR) moved to public library. See HELP *NPR.
Jul 8 (Jonathan Cunningham)
--- VED_H updated to work again with VMS, plus bug fixes, plus
HELPFILES() exported (this can be used to initialise the helpfile list).
Jul 4 (John Williams)
--- HELP *FILL modernised.
Jun 29 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_CUT (see HELP * VEDCOMMS) improved to cope with different cursor
positions before text deleted.
Jun 28 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Entry for * POPMEMUSED added to HELP * POPVARS.
Jul 9 (John Gibson)
--- The way in which "popdprecision" affects the production of
floating-point results by arithmetic operations and functions has changed.
The behaviour is now:
popdprecision effect
------------- ------
<false> No double-length (ddecimal) results are produced, ever.
"ddecimal" A ddecimal result is produced only if one or other (or
the only) argument is ddecimal. (This is the behaviour
required by Common LISP.)
Any other true Same as the previous case, except that a ddecimal
value result is also produced when neither argument is a
single-length decimal, i.e. if all argument(s) are
either ddecimal or rational ('rational' meaning
integers, or bigintegers/ratios when these appear in
the system).
Thus for example, with popdprecision set to <true>, sin(90) would produce
a ddecimal, whereas if set to "ddecimal" it would produce only a
single-length result.
Jul 9 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_CUT (see HELP * VEDCOMMS): yet more positions restored accurately
after deletion.
Jul 6 (John Williams)
--- *LASTPAIR moved from local to public autoload library (because Common
Lisp uses it)
Jul 3 (John Gibson)
--- "vars"-type statements in POP-11 can now include initialisations, by
following an identifier name with '= <expression>,' (where the comma
may be omitted if the next item is ")" or ";"). For example:
vars x=100, y, z=x+4, macro (HI="hello", BYE="goodbye");
lconstant list = [1 2 3 4], procedure p = identfn;
etc. The form
<declarator> <name1> = <expr1>, <name2> = <expr2>, ...
is equivalent to
<declarator> <name1>;
<expr1> -> <name1>;
<declarator> <name2>;
<expr2> -> <name2>;
...
For declarations inside a procedure, appropriate code is generated to be
executed at run-time. Lconstants are the only exception to this, the
assignments being done at compile-time: in this case the initialisation
expressions must be meaningful for compile-time evaluation.
--- 'define updaterof ... ' no longer re-declares the procedure name if no
declarator (i.e. "vars" etc) is explicitly specified and the name is
already declared as an identifier. That it did so previously meant that
constants would be redeclared, when an "updaterof" definition followed a
"define" for a constant procedure.
--- "nextreaditem" stands to "readitem" as "nextitem" does to "itemread",
i.e. macros aren't expanded. HELP * NEXTREADITEM added.
Jun 26 (John Gibson)
--- POPLOG Version 10.3 with full lexical scoping. There are 2 new POP-11
identifier declarations, DLVARS and LCONSTANT, and corresponding VM
procedures sysDLVARS and sysLCONSTANT. HELP DLVARS and HELP LCONSTANT
will be available as soon as possible, also HELP LEXICAL for an overview
of lexical scoping. For the VM level, REF VMCODE will replace the VM
section of REF SYSCOMPILE.
--- A bug in VED_TO and VED_MO which caused the destination file not to be
set "changed" in some circumstances is fixed.
Jun 26 (John Williams)
--- Some new procedures intended purely for Common Lisp will appear in the
next version of the system. They are mentioned here so that users will not
"trip over" their names. They are not to be treated as POP11 facilities
(at the moment). The procedures are: CONSLIST, DESTLIST, CAR, CDR, ENDP,
LISP_TRUE, POP_TRUE, LISP_IDENTIFIER, SETSTACKLENGTH.
Jun 26 (John Williams)
--- New procedures * ISVECTORCLASS, * ISRECORDCLASS, CLASS_FAST_SUBSCR.
Jun 25 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- MAPDATA for creating a new record or vector type object with each
element mapped by a given procedure. See HELP * MAPDATA.
Jun 25 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- *** COMING SOON *** NEWANYPROPERTY for creating properties with
user defined hashing procedures, equalist tests, active defaults and
expandable properties. See HELP * NEWANYPROPERTY.
Jun 22 (Aaron Sloman)
--- LIB NEWOBJ extended to provide 'DEFAULTS' field, and moved to 'public'
library. LIB NEWOBJ is an experimental unsupported Object-oriented package
using POP-11 Processes. It provides multiple inheritance.
See HELP * NEWOBJ, TEACH ADVENT.NEWOBJ
Jun 18 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- DISCAPPEND produces a character consumer for appending to a file.
See HELP * DISCAPPEND for details.
Jun 18 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VEDEDITAT(pdr, filename, lineno) - like VEDEDITOR but starts editing
the file at the specified lineno.
Jun 18 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VED_LL altered so that it no longer assumes that you can only have
14 lines when in long line mode unless the variable vedvt100noavo is set
true. See SHOWLIB VED_LL.
Jun 13 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- HELP files for *LOCCHAR_BACK and *SKIPCHAR_BACK added. Reference to
it added to *LOCCHAR, *SKIPCHAR and *STRINGS
Jun 10 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- TEACH POPNOTES - which at some time got lost from every machine
except VAX2 has been restored.
Jun 9 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * V55 modified. Section on LIB AUTOV55 clarified and extended to
explain new facilities.
Jun 7 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * SUBSTITUTE added.
Jun 3 (Roger Evans)
--- Minor 'declaring variable' bug in LIB FACETS fixed.
Jun 2 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_CD (<ENTER> cd directory) altered to call VEDERROR if directory
does not exist. HELP * CD altered to refer to VED_CD.
June 1 (Aaron Sloman)
--- This file was too long. Items before 1st Jan 1985 have been moved
to HELP NEWS.9
May 31 (Jonathan Cunningham)
--- Small bug in LIB CROSSREF fixed (it didn't recognise numeric
restrictions in patterns)
May 30 (John Williams)
--- Library procedure SYSREPEAT tidied up (it didn't make SYSREPEAT a
global identifier).
May 31 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VECTORCLASS and RECORDCLASS fixed to declare an identifier of the
form <class-name>_key containing the key of the class.
--- VECTORCLASS accepts an optional ":" between class-name and spec.
28 May 1985 (Jonathan Laventhol)
--- VECTORCLASS bug fixed. A slipup in CONSKEY meant that vector class
keys were built wrongly.
--- ALLBUTFIRST and ALLBUTLAST fixed to return words when given words.
Also, bugs fixed which could produce system objects in mishap messages
produced by these procedures.
--- Mishap printing in VED (with truncated structures) fixed so as not to
bomb out on nested pairs, nor hang on circular structures, nor expand
dynamic lists. Printing is also slightly reformatted.
--- VED_NAME fixed so that status line messages are correct.
--- When in VED, broadcast messages often appeared in graphics characters
in terminals which support them. A change to VEDINASCII, the procedure
which VED reads characters with, makes this much more unlikely.
--- VED_QUIT, the procedure used to quit files in VED, slightly altered so
that programs which want to retain pointers to the structure
VEDCURRENTFILE can do so sensibly. Previously, VED altered the structure
as it was quit.
May 24 (Roger Evans)
--- LIB FACETS now allows terminal symbols in grammar rules when used with
LIB GRAMMAR (ie symbols that have no entry in the lexicon, but are
themselves literal words.
May 24 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- POPINDEX and VED_SOURCEFILE fixed to use sys_>< - previously
they didn't work if POP_PR_QUOTES was true.
May 22 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- HELP * VEDVERSIONS partially rewritten to make clear the
relationship between VEDVERSIONS and * POP_FILE_VERSIONS.
May 22 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- RECORDCLASS and VECTORCLASS updated to use LVARS in order to
ensure that field names will not class with the local variables (e.g.
previously you could not have a field called "name").
May 22 (Jonathan Laventhol)
--- A fairly serious bug has been introduced into VECTORCLASS and
RECORDCLASS to do with bitfields. So if your program uses a new class
like this
vectorclass foo 1;
(or any number not a power of two) then you will get system objects!
The bug has been tracked down, it will be fixed as soon as possible.
May 21 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VEDFILESELECT streamlined. If it lists the files in another ved
buffer then it uses VEDFILEPROPS to indicate documentation files more
elegantly.
May 13 (Jonathan Laventhol)
--- System rebuilt with various fixes:
--- SYS_>< added. Like ><, see *STRINGS, and see entry below March 20.
--- Bug in >< fixed. See entry below for March 20.
--- DEST_CHARACTERS altered to give standard printing. It is no longer
sensitive to POP_PR_QUOTES etc, setting them locally to their default
values. HELP *DEST_CHARACTERS updated.
--- Minor bugs in SETPOP, and MISHAP fixed: foulups with POP_PR_QUOTES.
--- VED_CLEAR rewritten to fix bug with 'non-writable system structure'
Has new messages. ENTER YANK now works properly with it.
--- Can now give capital 'Y' and 'N' to VED substitute.
--- TRACE now works with closures of variadic procedures. Used to
mishap if closure had negative PDNARGS. Now pretends PDNARGS is 0.
HELP *PDNARGS and *DATALENGTH updated.
--- Can now use VED commands with capital letters in them. Used to always
convert the command name to lowercase. Now, given ENTER Foo, VED
looks for a procedure "ved_Foo", tries to autoload it if needed, if
not found then looks for "ved_foo", or tries to autoload that. The
second autoloading is not tried on VMS systems, because there is no
case distinction in filenames.
--- The procedure VEDCOMMANDTRAP now works. This is called before any
action when a VED ENTER command is given. Allows arbitrary action of
ENTER commands.
--- POPLOG can now be used as a login shell (UNIX ONLY). Users who
wish to make use of this facility should see their system manager,
to set up an initialisation file in their login directory called
.login.p -- this should be a POP11 file which sets up the list
popenvlist. Practical use of this feature will require provision
of standard files and more documentation. Users should regard this
as an experimental feature until these are developed.
May 13 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- HELP * POP_FILE_VERSIONS installed. It refers to the effect of
the variable on VMS machines. This effect will not be noticed until a
planned change to the VMS system occurs. The help file will not
appear on VMS there until the system has been changed.
May 9 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * VEDPROCS* VEDCOMMS and * VEDVARS updated.
May 3 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * POPVARS updated. Entry for POP_FILE_VERSIONS added
Coming (John Williams)
--- Rationalisation of the effects of APPDATA, EXPLODE, DATALENGTH and
DATALIST on arrays.
May 3 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Owing to problems with our Systime 8750 we have lost some files, and
it may take some time to recover fully. There may be discrepancies between
help and library files, as a result.
Help files recently updated:
* EFFICIENCY* APPDATA* COPY* YANK* VEDSEARCH* APPDATA* NEWANYARRAY* DATALIST* EXPLODE* VEDVARS* VEDCOMMS (ved_gsl, ved_cut, ved_splice)
Apr 19 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- HELP SYS_FILE_STAT updated to cover UNIX as well.
Apr 19 (Aaron Sloman)
--- REF SYNTAX updated to mention LVARS
Apr 16 (John Williams)
--- READEXPRESSION found to be the same as EXPRREAD (one of Allan Ramsay's
LIB FORMS utilities). So READEXPRESSION changed to be identical - perhaps
to be withdrawn later.
Apr 17 (Jonathan Laventhol)
--- Minor bug in ENTER SW fixed. Now complains if too close to left
margin.
Apr 14 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * FOR brought up to date
--- FAST_FOR: can now be used in place of 'for' for loops without
checking. Terminator may be either 'ENDFOR' or 'ENDFAST_FOR'. Formats
allowed include:
fast_for <variable> in ...
fast_for <variable> on ...
fast_for <variable> from ...
fast_for <variable> to ...
(In the last two, only fast integer operations are used.)
See REF FASTPROCS.
Apr 11 (Roger Evans)
--- FAST_NCREV added - a non-checking version of NCREV - twice as fast!
Apr 5 (Aaron Sloman)
--- A book entitled 'POP-11: A Practical Language for AI' will be
published by Ellis Horwood and Wiley, during the Summer of 1985. It
totally supersedes TEACH PRIMER. It is aimed at readers who are already
programmers, not at absolute beginners.
Apr 5 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Two new autoloadable FAST procedures. FAST_MEMBER and FAST_LMEMBER
Both use ' == []' instead of NULL to test for end of list. On a 10000
element list, FAST_LMEMBER is nearly three times as fast as LMEMBER.
FAST_MEMBER is about 25% faster than MEMBER (which is four times slower
than LMEMBER at looking for a number in a list). The FAST_ procedures will
crash on dynamic lists, and are unsafe on lists which might not end in [].
See REF FASTPROCS for more information on 'FAST' procedures.
Apr 5 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * EFFICIENCY updated with information on list processing times.
Apr 3 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Section on repeated call of an updater added to HELP * EFFICIENCY.
--- HELP * UPDATER and * PDPROPS extended and clarified.
Apr 2 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VEDJUMPTO made slightly more efficient.
Apr 1 (Aaron Sloman)
--- LIB V55KEY5 does for Visual 55 what LIB VEDKEY5 does for V200.
See HELP * VEDKEY5
Mar 31 (Aaron Sloman)
--- ENTER stop no longer asks you to press return when you re-run the
suspended process.
Mar 30 (John Williams)
VEDJUMPTO made slightly more efficient.
Mar 24 (Aaron Sloman)
LIB GRAPHCHARSETUP modified to call VEDSETUP before VEDTERMSETUP.
Mar 22 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- SYSFILEPARSE updated (thanks to John Williams) so that it works
properly on UNIX machines (note the second field "disk" is always a
null string). SYSFILETYPE, SYSFILENAME, SYSFILEDIR and SYSFILEVERSION
changed to use this as they always have done on VMS.
--- IMPORTANT NOTE: the affect of SYSFILENAME is now changed - it no
longer returns the file extension if there is one. The new procedure
SYSFULLFILENAME will do this and libraries using SYSFILENAME have been
changed to use this if necessary.
Mar 21 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- <ENTER> SEND now deals with apostrophes (') in subject line.
Previously it hung up without warning!
Mar 20 (Tom Khabaza)
Ved commands <ENTER> WC and WCR altered to use the same itemisation rules
as unix wc. New versions also run faster. See HELP * WC.
Mar 20 (Jonathan Laventhol)
--- Some bug fixes coming:
--- SYS_>< added. This is like ><, but is immune to changes to PR and the
control variables POP_PR_EXPONENT, POP_PR_QUOTES, POP_PR_RADIX and
POP_PR_PLACES: it sets the variables and uses SYS_SYSPR. All appropriate
system uses of >< are changed. This fixes bug of quotes appearing in
strange places when POP_PR_QUOTES set true. HELP *POP_PR_QUOTES*SYS_SYSPR
added. HELP *STRINGS*PR updated.
--- Bug in >< removed, now always uses PR. (Used to sometimes use <>, and
hence gave funny behaviour when POP_PR_QUOTES true).
--- HELP *PDPROPS updated. Used to say boundslist of array was in PDPROPS.
--- VED_CLEAR rewritten to make sure all variables set up properly. Fixes
various bugs including <ENTER> YANK after <ENTER> clear messing up tabs.
Mar 17 (Aaron Sloman)
--- DOC OVERVIEW slightly updated. Installation guide DOC AAREAD.ME
updated and clarified.
Mar 17 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_IC (ENTER IC) can now cope with CR (CTRL M, ascii 13) or LF (10).
See HELP * VEDCOMMS
Mar 17 (Aaron Sloman)
--- LIB V55 - VEDSTATUSSWITCH assigned to keypad "," instead of
VEDSWITCHSTATUS, which did not mark current line.
Mar 15 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * SUSPEND updated to mention optional process argument.
Mar 15 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_SEND minor bug fixed: now restores position of cursor.
Mar 15 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_LS made to use temporary file in users $HOME directory.
Mar 15 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- CHARIN_TIMEOUT made slightly more efficient.
Mar 13 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * SYSOBEY updated, re `!` for second argument.
--- New ENTER SEND: names can be on a line starting: 'To:'. Now moves
marked range instead deleting and re-inserting lines.
Mar 13 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- Minor bug fix to DATAFILE. Previously it couldn't write "-" signs
without a number.
Mar 12 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- Minor bug fixes to LIB FINGER (and associated teach file).
Mar 11 (Aaron Sloman)
--- UPPERTOLOWER and LOWERTOUPPER made a bit more efficient
Mar 9 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VEDTHISSTRING moved from file <vedthisstrinq.p> to <vedthisstring.p>.
Mar 3 (Aaron Sloman)
--- LIB AUTOV55 (automatic selection between V200 and V55) in Public
Library. See HELP * V55, or SHOWLIB AUTOV55.
--- HELP * VEDTERMINALSELECT clarified and brought up to date. The
following files have been removed from the VED library, as the relevant
procedures are now in the system: ved_ti.p ved_to.p ved_mi.p ved_mo.p
inorout.p
--- HELP * VEDKEYS updated with more cross references.
Feb 25 (Aaron Sloman)
--- HELP * INITIAL.EX extended with examples related to V55.
--- Entry for VVEDSCREENSENDIDSEQ added to HELP * VEDVARS
Feb 22 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- INSTANCE altered so that it can take an optional second argument
specifing action to take if the variable is undefined or is prefixed by a
double query and its value is not a list. If the second argument is not
provided then its behaviour is not altered. See HELP * INSTANCE.
Feb 21 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- VEDLOADLINE() loads the current line without upsetting the marked
range. LIB VEDLOADLINE, now in the public library defines this and assigns
it to <ESC> d. HELP * VEDPROCS updated.
--- VED_SEND, VED_SENDMR, now have VEDCHANGED local. See HELP * VEDCOMMS
Feb 16 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Bug in VEDMARKPOP fixed. It did not always reset marked range.
Feb 15 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Improved version of VED_H, replacing previously withdrawn version.
--- VED_STOP added to HELP * VEDCOMMS
--- VEDRESTOREWINDOWS added to HELP * VEDPROCS
Feb 14 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- Popready fixed so that it now works smoothly in ved with Version 10's
interactive mode. To exit from popready it is necessary to do
<escape> <control> Z.
Feb 11 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Some VED help files slightly updated:
* VEDINPUT* VEDPROCS* VEDPUTCHAR* VED
--- POPINDEX speeded up by using more/shorter files. Also slightly
generalised to enable users to create and use their own index files.
See HELP * POPINDEX
Feb 3 (Mark Rubinstein)
--- Entries for * POP_TIMEOUT and POP_TIMEOUT_SECS inserted into
HELP * POPPROCS and * POPVARS
Jan 30 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VEDBACKLOCATE had a bug - did not find most recent occurrence of
string if there were two on same line. Fixed temporarily.
See HELP * VEDPROCS (The bug is in ved_backsearch, actually).
--- VED_DS (search up to and delete) and VED_DSB (delete searching
backwards) added to library. See help vedcomms.
Jan 28 (Aaron Sloman)
--- POPINDEX made very much faster. VED_SOURCEFILE cleaned up.
See HELP * SOURCEFILE* POPINDEX
Jan 22 (Aaron Sloman)
--- LIB SETV55KEYS and HELP * SETV55KEYS copied from local to public
directories.
--- HELP * MAIL added. ENTER SEND sends the whole file. ENTER SENDMR sends
only the marked range. See HELP * SEND
Jan 9 (Aaron Sloman)
--- Minor alteration to VED_LL in order to supress declaring variable
message.
--- Bug in CONSKEY to do with ddecimal fields in records fixed.
Jan 8 (John Williams)
--- Some bugs in VED_MEP (and hence VED_MCP, VED_JCP etc) fixed.
--- New procedure ARRAYVECTOR_BOUNDS that returns the bounds of the used
portion of an array's *ARRAYVECTOR.
Jan 4 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VED_CUT and VED_SPLICE cleaned up and made to act more naturally.
They now use global variable VVEDCUT_DUMP, not VVEDDUMP.
Jan 1 (Aaron Sloman)
--- VEDCHARINSERT had a bug when VEDBREAK was true and line had to be
broken to left of cursor. Character was not inserted. Now fixed.
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