[climacs-devel] latest progress

[Robert Strandh]

Hello, 

This message is mostly for those who do not read climacs-cvs and who
do not participate in the #lisp IRC channel.

Climacs has dozens of lines added to it every day.  At this rate I
estimate we will have a completely usable editor by the time the
student projects are finished in May.

Do not hesitate taking on even minor tasks such as fixing a bug or
adding documentation strings.  And please add your favorite Emacs
command that is currently missing from Climacs, but please let us know
(by mailing to this list) what you are working on in that case. 

Recent improvements:

  * the near-final redisplay algorithm is in place.  Screen update is
    now very fast after simple buffer operation such as inserting
    characters on a line.

  * transpose-{objects,words,lines} exist.

  * the implementation of the buffer protocol is faster.

  * we have function to search for a string in the buffer
    (non-incremental for now).

  * the CLX translate function was fixed so that non-ascii characters
    can be displayed.

  * input mode for iso-latin-1 on a US-international keyboard was
    implemented.  Not sure Climacs is the right place for this,
    though.  It might migrate to McCLIM one day.

  * implemented a command for setting the syntax (with completion).

  * probably some things I forgot.  

What is being worked on:

  * multi-buffer, multi-window

-- 
Robert Strandh

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