Epsilon 13.08

Epsilon 13.08 is an advanced tool that is used to edit text for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OS/2 and DOS.

Major Features:

1. Epsilon now supports Mac OS X. It can run in either Terminal or X11 mode, dynamically selecting the best available mode. Epsilon for Mac OS X is distributed as an application bundle that supports drag-and-drop installation.
2. Modes for XML and HTML have been extensively enhanced. They now support smart indenting and embedded CSS and Python scripting. And they automatically highlight matching and mismatched tags. There are new commands to move by tags or elements, delete matched tags, insert an end tag to close the current element, list unmatched tags, and sort and align XML attributes.
3. Epsilon can now display misspelled words as you edit. In programming language modes, it marks only words in comments and strings. (Modes can easily customize this.) Epsilon also offers suggestions for correcting these misspellings, either using its own guessing algorithm or one of several external programs. It maintains per-file, per-directory, and global ignore lists. A traditional spell-buffer-or-region command and a spell-grep command to list all misspelled words are also available.
4. A new context-sensitive help feature provides help on language keywords using flexible mode-based rules. It includes built-in rules for C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Visual Basic, LaTeX, Shell scripts, VHDL, Tcl, and EEL, and you can customize them by simply setting a variable. Rules can offer help by conducting a web search, accessing Windows-based help in various formats, displaying Info documentation, and other methods.
5. new browse-symbol command provides an enhanced interface to the source code browser database generated by Microsoft compilers. Epsilon can display the names of all functions that read or write a certain variable or call a particular function, and show the actual lines that do so, letting you quickly navigate to one. Results can be filtered in various ways. You can now use Epsilon's native tagging facility side by side with a browser database.
6. Epsilon now prompts for SCP passwords and passphrases, automatically restarts disconnected SCP jobs, and detects when an SCP URL names a directory. Grep and completion now work on ftp:// filenames.
7. The new align-region command makes it easy to have various language elements line up into columns.
8. The new compare-to-prior-version command shows what changes you've made in the current editing session.
9. The new undo-movements and redo-movements commands return to those locations in a large file where you've made modifications before.
10. A new mode supports the Tcl language.
11. Epsilon for Unix supports new-style clipboard usage under X11, distinguishing between the primary selection and the clipboard. This helps it interact more naturally with KDE and Gnome programs. Setting the clipboard-format variable to 1 mimics Epsilon's previous behavior of only using the primary selection. Middle-clicking, which normally performs pan-style scrolling, now inserts the primary selection when shift-clicked.

Enhancements:

• Epsilon for Windows now has much better support for NTFS junctions and symbolic links. Dired will show their destinations, and ** file syntax will follow them while guarding against loops, as under Unix. 
• Bug Fixes
  
  • In version 13.07 only, C mode could hang while parsing certain forms of comment syntax.
  • On Mac OS X and Linux, Epsilon's X11 dialog helper program no longer depends on any external Gtk+ library. Issues with the set-color and set-font commands on Intel-based Mac systems and on 64-bit Linux systems should now be gone.
  • Debian and RPM Linux packages now depend on the bzip2 package itself instead of the package containing the libbz2 library.
  • Under Vista, the configure-epsilon and create-file-associations commands should now start up more reliably.
  • Under Mac OS X, Activity Monitor should no longer incorrectly report that Epsilon is unresponsive. , as under Unix.