schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (09/17/89)
Yes, folks, you read that right. The decision has been made to abandon
version 6.6 and make 7.0 the next official release. With that goal in
mind, an alpha test version has supplanted 6.5.6.15 beta.
Two major changes from 6.5.6.15 warranted the change in release number:
The tool code has been more completely rewritten, to actually make use
of the textsw features of SunView; and filename completion (ala 4.3BSD
csh, but better :-) has been added to the line/curses modes. Several
details of the tool interface remain to be sorted out, which is why this
is designated an alpha test rather than beta. Also, the portable directory
routines used by the file completion code have not yet been tested on a
SysV system, so feedback from SysV users is urgently needed.
Many thanks to those of you who worked so hard on making version 6.6 an
unreality. :-)
As with the 6.5.6.xx beta releases, the 7.0 alpha version is available
for anonymous ftp from ucbvax.berkeley.edu, file pub/mushview.tar.Z (the
same name as the previous versions). Also as before, tool mode bug reports
should be sent to Rich Burridge <rburridge@sun.com>. Other bug reports
can be sent to Dan <island!argv@sun.com>, me <schaefer@cse.ogc.edu>, or
to Rich. Discussion and suggestions for improvements may be posted to
this newsgroup or sent to the <mush-users@garp.mit.edu> mailing list.
The following is an excerpt from the latest README.View. Since the main
changes to the tool mode are in implementation rather than functionality,
this excerpt deals mainly with the file completion changes. I have also
limited the commentary here to the changes since 6.5.6.15 beta; a more
complete list of changes since the 6.5.6 baseline can still be found in
README.View.
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Version 7.0 Alpha differs from the several 6.5.6 Beta releases in that a
large portion of the Sun code has changed to use text subwindows instead
of pixrects. This is a significant enough change in "look and feel" that
the release number was increased from 6 to 7. Addition of file completion
to the line/curses modes is also considered a major improvement.
In addition to the SunView conversions and linting, which make up the bulk
of the changes, there have been a number of bug fixes and enhancements to
the 6.5.6 baseline. These include:
$bell
This variable now has a string value of one to three words:
await The await command rings for new mail
complete Word completion rings on failure
tool Tool mode rings for new mail
If any word is omitted, the bell is not rung under those conditions.
If the variable is unset, the bell is completely silent in tool mode
and rings only for error conditions in other modes.
$complete
Mush now supports filename completion and will eventually support
command completion as well. This variable has a two-character "string"
value; the first character is used for name completion, the second for
listing, ala ESC and ^D in 4.3 BSD csh.
$fignore
This variable modifies the behavior of file completion by specifying
file name forms that should NOT be completed. See the man page for
more details.
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To reiterate the important info --
7.0 Alpha available for anonymous ftp from:
ucbvax.berkeley.edu:pub/mushview.tar.Z
Toolmode bug reports to:
Rich Burridge <rburridge@sun.com>
Other bug reports to:
Dan Heller <island!argv@sun.com>
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@cse.ogc.edu>
Rich Burridge <rburridge@sun.com>
Discussion and suggestions:
comp.mail.mush
<mush-users@garp.mit.edu>
The authors are still wedging mush changes into late nights and corners,
so response times may vary. We encourage alpha (and beta) testers to
provide patches for problems they encounter whenever possible.
Thanks again to all you volunteers.
--
Bart Schaefer "And if you believe that, you'll believe anything."
-- DangerMouse
CSNET / Internet schaefer@cse.ogc.edu
UUCP ...{sequent,tektronix,verdix}!ogccse!schaeferloverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) (09/20/89)
Request-for-sanity: The list of ~ commands in compose-mode is getting longer and longer. As a complexity reducing feature, how about adding a send-message-hook variable, such that when it is set to a mush command, that command is executed after telling mush to send the message and before the message is handed off to the MTA. Thus, the hook could be set to a shell script to add a signature or a fortune as desired. Then, a user wishing the (less-then-useful) fortune feature could map! ~F to a command to set the hook variable, ala the way I add R-R-T: headers: # msg-comp-mode map! +rr "\n~:my_hdr Return-Receipt-to: loverso@Xylogics.COM\n" map! -rr "\n~:un_hdr Return-Receipt-to:\n" The ~ commands t s c b h don't have any effect when edit_hdrs is set. I assume this is because of the implementation of edit_hdrs; it would be nice to either fix this implementation pitfall or not list those items in ~? when edit_hdrs is set. A last nit is that ~H doesn't get me any ignored headers; it would be nice if there was a way around that. (My real problem is that I always think "~F" is a "~f" that gets me ignored headers, and then I add this junk fortune to a letter. Mush doesn't indicate its adding the fortune until its too late to stop it. I don't really use ~S; whenever I want a signature, I just `:r ~/.sig' in vi; I used to use ~$s (its got my sig in it, too) before edit_hdrs.) John