A new beta of Ann 3.0 is out. It is internally called 2.7.8. There is a mixture of bugfixes and new features.

- A bug in the default prefs caused it to always try to open a screen and the keyboard selection probably failed. Fixed.
- Fixed reloading syntax. Flushed all editors' syntax.
- Couldn't single-click to exchange editors when save-on-inactive is selected.
- Replace aand find forgot the first line.
- Implemented Live Search; like emacs the editor will continously find the closest match when you type.
- Implemented inconification. (not working I think)
- Stopped the jumping of text when cutting or deleting text at the top.
- Added arexx commands SHOW_EX_EDITOR and HIDE_EDITOR.
- Fixed loading of macros.
- Added the menu/hotkeys Tools to the prefs.
- Fixed some screen handling and quitting issues, prefs saving etc.
- Added saving of open/closed status of the Ed Exchange for project.
- Monitors file changes and alerts when a file was changed on disk.

You can find it here: http://hem.bredband.net/deniil/

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Hehe, ok I've had a few whiskeys yesterday when I implemented the final features and fixes and did the release so maybe I missed something. I also forgot the link to where I put it...

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Excuse my ignorance but what is Annotate?

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It's a text editor for writing computer programs with.

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Excuse my ignorance but what is Annotate?

Oh, sorry! I made the classical mistake, didn't I
However, this wasn't a news item or I would be really ashamed. This beta is mostly for those who already use Ann.

Ann(otate) is a text editor with lots of features including syntax highlighting that makes it extra easy to write code or web pages or edit XML documents etc.

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aros version???

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AROS version is coming in the full release.
I only make OS4 version of these betas since the MUI GUIs are not in sync. Infact, the new Ed Exchange that is actually useable does not exist in MUI at all yet and the old GT is not compatible anymore. Some work to be done there...

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great editor & can we have the scroll bar on the right or have a option for user
to select in settings.

thank you..

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AROS version in full release. Great, thx :D

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Scrollbar on the right is already implemented! It is optional. The left custom bar will still be there though since it contains useful information such as modified sections, where the cursor is, if and where there is a selection, the last cursor positions and scroll stores.

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If I'm not mistaken, there should already be an AROS version of v2.7 in the archive on os4depot.net and aminet.

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I have installed v2.7 and when I try to use syntax highlighting a meesage says: Found no suitable syntax for this editor. I've tried with C++ and Amiga E sources.

I'm running AOS 3.5 (no BoingBags) and expat.library 4.1 under E-UAE.

BTW, it works with the AROS version.

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Hmm, strange. I must say I haven't tested OS3 on a real OS3 system though, only the OS3 executable on OS4.

Do you think you can run SnoopDos or something similar to see if something failes during startup and when loading a C or E source? However, MOS and OS3 uses the same code for opening expat.library and it works on MOS I'm sure.

I believe there has to be something wrong with paths somewhere so it doesn't find AnnotateSyntax.xml.

Also, have you tried selecting "Try Syntax highlighting" from the Tools menu directly? Guess you did since you got that message... Please check in the Config if there are any syntaxes loaded there, or if it is possible to (re)load them.

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Yes, there are syntaxes in the config and can use both, C/C++ and E syntax. Is the menu that gives the error.

I'll check now with SnoopDOS.

Edit:
This is SnoopDos log.
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Count Process Name Action Target Name Options Res. ----- ------------ ------ ----------- ------- ---- 1 WBL ChangeDir Work:Annotate 2 WBL Load Ann.AmigaOS3 OK 3 WBL ChangeDir SYS: 4 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open CON://///AUTO/CLOSE/WAIT Read OK 5 KingCON DOS-proces Open ENV:Sys/def_KingCON.info Read Fail 6 Ann.AmigaOS3 ChangeDir Work:Annotate 7 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open ENV:Annotate.xml Read OK 8 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open ENVARC:AnnotateLastLine.xml Read Fail 9 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open AnnTools Read Fail 10 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open s:AnnTools Read Fail 11 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open Default.AnnMacs Read Fail 12 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open s:Default.AnnMacs Read Fail 13 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open Workspace:PortablE/Examples Read OK 14 Ann.AmigaOS3 Open AnnotateSyntax.xml Read OK

AnnotateSyntax.xml is in the drawer but I don't see AnnotateLastLine.xml

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Trying different c sources. With some, syntax highlighting works automatically when loading the file, for others doesn't. Even a simple source file with just a printf in main fails. SnoopDos output is the same, no matter if it works or not.

I can send the files if you want. They are some intuition examples that I don't remember where I downloaded.

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Aha, I think I know what the problem is: Your source files may be too short for them to be positively identified. The larger the source - The higher the chance of a correct recognition.

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Even a simple source file with just a printf in main fails.

Yes of course. Here "printf" could have been a comment in a text document, or a bash script or anything. "main" is just a common English word. Ann needs to find more special C/C++ or E keywords and tokens in a file to be sure it is really that particular language.

If you open the AnnotateSyntax.xml file you can see in the qualifying section for each language what must exist for it to be recognized. You can also of course change it if you like it to be less strict when qualifying a syntax for a text. But beware that it may very well make annoying mistakes too. Remember that it will not choose the language the fits *best*, it will choose the language that fit *first*, and it searches from the bottom of the xml file and up.

AnnotateLastLine.xml contains a list of files you have edited in the past and the last line you were at when you saved or closed the file the last time. You have to enable this feature manually. Don't worry about the file.

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Aha, I think I know what the problem is: Your source files may be too short for them to be positively identified. The larger the source - The higher the chance of a correct recognition.

Ok, that is then. I've been trying with small examples. Yes, the larger files are recognized immediately. No problem then, I'll keep practicing so my source files grew larger

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Maybe the "qualifiying" as I call it should also take into account how large the file is, so that if the file is small and it only finds a few correct tokens, it would be ok. But if the file is large, a lot more tokens need to be present to make it ok.

This would prevent plain text files with a few programming words in them from being incorrectly recognized, but at the same time allow small, pure source files to be correctly recognized as well.

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any news on annotate v3.0? the beta builds are no longer available on the site linked to in this thread.

edit: whoops. forgot to try the built-in update features. i now have annotate v3.0 on my machines, and am very pleased indeed. thanks for keeping this terrific editor alive!



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Yes, due to various reasons, the public release hasn't happened yet, but the auto update has been out for a few month now. So you who have the Audio update feature turned off, try just running it manually from the config window to get v3.0!

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- Fixed loading of macros.

Hooray! Works great now.

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