This editor grew out of a frustration that although lots of
eager programmers have tackled rewrites of Emacs, with new and
better features (not to mention free source), I've not seen
anything similar done with the Second True Editor.  (The
First, of course, being /bin/ed)

...

vile retains the multiple buffer/multiple window features of
MicroEMACS, but the "finger-feel", if you will, is very much
that of vi.  It is definitely not a clone, in that some
substantial stuff is missing, and the screen doesn't look
quite the same.  But what matters most is that one's "muscle
memory" does the right thing to the text in front of you, and
that is what vile tries to do for vi users.  THIS IS NOT A
"CLONE"!  But it feels good.  (Put another way, the things
that you tend to type over and over probably work -- things
done less frequently, like configuring a .exrc file, are quite
different.)

...

The collective developers of Micro-Emacs should be
complimented that the changes were as easy as they were.
...

Paul G. Fox	June, 1991, and February, 1992

- vile is now completely autoconf'ed -- you should be able to type
either "./configure; make" or "./configure --with-screen=x11" to build
it on any (unix-like) platform.

- :map and :map! are now much more complete, but still by no means
done.  expect to have to edit your favorite macros to make
them work.

- :abbr now works.

- along with proper :map support comes proper function key support.
function keys defined for your terminal in the termcap/info database
are now premapped and can be bound to as #-1 etc.  so those of
you with ESC [ 10 ~ style function keys should be happy now.

- mouse clicks which move the cursor now count as proper motion
commands in both xvile and vile-in-an-xterm.  this means, for
instance, that '' or `` will get you back to where you were before
you clicked the mouse, and you can apply operators to mouse
movements.  for example -- click the mouse somewhere, hit 'd' to
start a delete operation, and click the mouse somewhere else.  the
text between the two mouse-click locations will be deleted.

- on-line help (just a single line) for every function, available
with describe-{bindings,function,key} commands.

- new modes to better control beeping and the "working..." message.

- autowrite mode now supported, on a global or buffer-by-buffer basis.

- popup windows now adjust their size to their contents -- less screen
space is wasted for small window, and more is used for big windows.

- file and command completion is now more emacs/bash/tcsh-like, in
that possible choices are shown when you hit a second TAB key.  this
can be tuned via a new mode, "popup-choices"

- "quoted" motions, which highlight the text they will act on.  type
a 'q', and start moving around, then type another 'q'.

- various fixes to the macro language, for core dumps and usability.

- file.bak and file~ backup files now supported.

- infinite (?) screen sizes should now be supported under X.

- it's now possible to break lines by putting ^M in the replacement
pattern.

- selections, the modelines, and the cursor, under xvile, can all
have different colors.

- color support for termcap, at least on the linux console.

- put'ing from registers (i.e. 'p' and 'P' commands) should be much
faster.

- multiple (error) messages arising from running a macro or a startup
file will now accumulate in a new popup window.

- a simple, probably incomplete file-locking protocol is available,
but is not compiled in by default.  the organization which
contributed the code (Baan Development) uses it to aid their
multi-user development.  turn on OPT_LCKFILES in estruct.h and
"set usefilelock" in your .vilerc to play with it.

- Windows NT support -- console mode only.  anyone want to port this
to the Windows95 console?  it's probably not hard, though i haven't
looked into it very hard.

- lots of bug fixes

The organization of the keyword files for the syntax filters is now
associated with majormodes.  Syntax filters are defined for most of the
predefined majormodes which include:

    adamode                   jsmode                    perlmode
    awkmode                   keymode                   sccsmode
    batmode                   latexmode                 shmode
    cmode                     lexmode                   sqlmode
    cshmode                   m4mode                    tcmode
    cwebmode                  mailmode                  tclmode
    dclmode                   makemode                  timode
    diffmode                  mmsmode                   txtmode
    htmlmode                  nrmode                    vilemode
    imakemode                 pasmode                   yaccmode
    javamode

Other changes of note (this is not an exhaustive list):

+ removed/rewrote code which would prevent us from making vile available
  under more liberal licensing.

+ winvile and xvile have icons.

+ new macro directives added, including:

  ~local  ~hidden  ~with  ~endwith  ~elsewith

+ many VMS bug fixes and enhancements.  8.3 is a keeper if you use VMS.

In addition to improvements to syntax highlighting, e.g., user-definable
color schemes, vile's macro language has been extended

	+ procedures can be parameterized.

+ several new functions simplify handling of external filenames, and
  parsing strings.

Further improvements have been made to winvile: drag/drop, file open
dialog, better integration with the Windows Explorer and DevStudio.

+ continued improvement of syntax coloring (much work here)

+ add an Exporter-like mechanism to Perl5 interface. Instead
  of exposing a module's functions to the caller, it exposes them to
  vile as registered commands.  By renaming the extensions as `.pm',
  and making some minor changes to use Vile::Exporter, an extension
  becomes visible by simply adding:
      use extension;
  to vileinit.pl.  There is also provision for only including some
  commands provided by the extension, and for overriding the keybinding
  defined by the developer (documented in the attached module).
  Of course you can still say:
       require extension;
  and do the registering yourself if you so choose.

+ vile's perl interface includes a new Vile::Window module, which may
  be used to manipulate vile windows.  Examples of the use of this
  module may be found in winops.pm.

+ rename most .pl files to .pm (makefile.in).

+ add/improve several perl scripts, including

  - capture.pl - implements a perl version of capture-command.  This
    version incrementally updates the window however.

  - shell.pl - revised to use IO:Pty instead of Comm.pl (which
    seems to be no longer maintained).

  - Manual.pm - display embedded POD documentation.

+ implement watchfd support for the termcap/terminfo versions of vile.

+ added autocolor feature, which updates color syntax highlighting when
  the keyboard is inactive for a specified period.

+ Vileserv now also works for vile.

+ changed vmsbuild.com to accept a compiler specification on the VMS
  command line, which is much more convenient than editing the build
  script by hand.  compiler defaults to VAXC on Vax hosts and DECC on
  Alpha hosts.

+ Several Win32-specific improvements:

  - add the Win32 common dialog "save as" feature to both console
    vile and winvile.

  - modify directory.pm and dirlist.pm to make them work on win32, i.e.,
    by not executing portions that will not work (such as mime types).

  - implement autoscrolling feature for winvile, which makes the buffer
    scroll in the direction where the mouse leaves the window,
    automatically extending selection highlighting.

+ modify backspacelimit mode to allow backspacing through a newline
  when nobackspacelimit is specified.

+ add single-quoted strings, which eliminate the need for escaping
  backslash (useful in startup/command files)

+ Added binding / support for ^X-_ aka
  "historical-buffer-to-current-window".

+ modify logic in ins_any_time() to interpret control characters which
  are bound to GOAL or MOTION commands rather than inserting them
  without quoting.  This allows ^E and ^Y as commands within an insert.

+ improve performance of syntax highlighting with configure option
  for compiling-in any of the syntax filters.  Use the configure
  --with-builtin-filters option.  Both internal (built-in) and
  external filters are supported.

+ add key binding functions for the different editing modes (insert,
  command, minibuffer and default), making it simpler to bind a
  space or tab to a given function without having it confused for a
  function while in insert mode.

+ Vileserv now uses the registry, so 'perl "use Vileserv"' in your
  .vilerc automagically adds the commands startserv, stopserv, and
  vileserv-help.

+ added gdb.pm, which runs gdb in a vile window and tracks changes
  in editor.  (Must be used with shell.pm.)

Several Win32-specific improvements:

+ allow pasting of one line of text into mini-buffer.

+ winopen, winopen-nocd, winsave, and winsave-nocd accept an
  optional directory argument, which specifies the initial directory
  opened by the Open/Save Win32 common dialogs.

Other Modes:

+ add insert-exec mode to control logic in ins_any_time() which
  interprets control characters which are bound to GOAL or MOTION
  commands rather than inserting them without quoting (see 9.0a and
  9.0b changes).  This restores the default behavior, since some
  users had control characters bound to a function which was then
  executed.

+ add unique-buffers mode, which does dev/inode checking to be sure
  files aren't edited more than once.

Syntax Filters:

+ add syntax filters for sed, imake

+ implement abbreviations for syntax keywords, using '*' as the
  default delimiter.

+ filters now attribute multi-line regions when appropriate, e.g.,
  multi-line comments in C.

Macros and Scripting Support:

+ add &dquery function which prompts for input with a given default
  value.

+ implement function &error, which returns true if its argument was
  an ERROR token.  Modify built-in functions to return ERROR if an
  argument was ERROR.

+ add variable $filename-expr, to specify the actual pattern used
  for %F in [Error Expressions].  On DOS and Win32, this is
  initialized to a more complex pattern, to accommodate drive
  letters.

+ make the ~local directive work for modes.

+ add ~trace directive, which sets or reports the value of the
  $debug variable.  Use this to trace into internal buffer [Trace].

+ add macros/shifts.rc, which implements left/right shifting of
  words in the current line to align with the cursor.

Other Changes:

+ modify color support in xvile to allow the pre-8.3s color scheme
  as a special case:  setting bcolor to fcolor makes xvile use the
  bcolorN resources on syntax-highlighted text rather than the color
  selected by bcolor (which is actually taken from the fcolorN
  resource in this case).

+ added pushd, popd, dirs commands with accompanying [DirStack].

+ add dirs-clear and dirs-add commands

+ added select-all and selection-clear commands.

+ change default for $XSHELLFLAGS from "-c" to "-e", which matches the
  documentation for $xshell-flags.

+ add write-all-buffers command; writes all buffers whether modified or not

+ add setenv (set-environment-variable) command.

+ added a swap-title mode and $title-format variable.

+ if the user specifies ":w!", and the file is not writable, vile will
  (try to) temporarily chmod the file for writable access.

+ added $findpath and $find-cmd state variables and, on win32 and unix
  hosts, modified capturecmd (aka ^X-!) to support find operations that
  span directory tree(s).

+ reimplement ":args" command to accept a filename expression.

+ add commands "ww!" and "wall!", to respectively write all changed
  buffers and write all buffers, using the "w!" behavior of ignoring
  readonly file permissions.

+ implement three functions for working with timestamps: &ftime, &stime,
  and &date, respectively for file modification time, system time, and
  formatted date/time.

+ extend insert-exec to allow ^A and ^X prefixes to be interpreted
  in insert mode

+ implemented support for reading/writing Macintosh files, i.e.,
  recordseparator=cr.  New commands set-rs-cr, set-rs-lf, set-rs-crlf
  extend the set-unix-mode and set-dos-mode commands to include Mac's.

+ add &stoken function, which searches for a token in a string, e.g.,
  "perl" in $cfgopts by
    &stoken  "perl"  ","  $cfgopts

+ add &translate function, e.g.,
    &trans   ","     " "  "a,b"
  to change commas to spaces

+ add commands leading-detab-til and leading-entab-til, binding those
  to ^X-' ' and ^X-^I.  Most of the logic was available internally.

+ implemented '< and '> marks, which denote the limits of the
  selection.

Perl Interface:

+ add a new command to shell.pm called "xterm", which starts a shell in one
  of vile's buffers just as "start-shell" already does, but also starts an
  xterm through which one may (also) interact with the shell.  The shell
  output (and echoed input) is displayed in both the xterm and a vile
  buffer.

+ implement perl/Breadcrumbs.pm

+ add perl/Help.pm

+ add perl/CaptHook.pm, which provides useful wrappers for Vile's
  "hook" variables.

Win32-Specific:

+ added basic win32 printing for winvile

+ modify ntconio.c so that default fcolor is 7

+ change paste in winvile to insert at DOT rather than after.  Also,
  when pasting in insert mode, set DOT to the end of the inserted
  text.

+ improve paste-by-right-mouse-click operation in winvile by NOT
  setting the insertion point at the position where the mouse happens
  to be when executing the right-click, but rather pasting at the
  current DOT (i.e.  right-mouse-click never sets DOT).

+ when popup-menu is inactive, if text is selected, right-click copies
  to w32clipboard; otherwise right-click pastes from w32clipboard.

+ added icursor (insertion cursor) mode.

Syntax Filters:

+ add Verlog and ECLiPSe (Prolog dialect) filters

+ add syntax filter for BASIC, and majormodes basicmode and
  Visual Basic (vbmode).

Other Changes:

+ add 'mouse' mode for OS/2 (CSet), to disable mouse when not wanted.

+ add $prompt variable, to allow changing the command-line prompt.

General changes:

+ regular expressions and searches allow null characters.

+ minibuffer editing commands are more complete, implementing all of the
  inline cursor search- and motion-commands.

+ implement new editing commands in the minibuffer:  r, ~, x, X.

+ use insert-mode bindings when mini-edit mode is active.  Use insert-key
  to toggle, rather than set mini-edit mode.

+ modify buffer- and filename-completion on Unix to escape backslashes
  which are stored in the [Completions] buffer.  Doing this allows one
  to complete a buffer or filename containing a backslash.

+ improve history-editing by quoting tokens which contain embedded blanks
  or other special characters, using that to retrieve tokens from the
  history buffer unambiguously.

+ save/restore window modes such as linewrap when rereading a file,
  or when executing a shell command.

+ use realpath() if it is available, and "$VILE_PWD" environment variable
  rather than "." as parameter to getcwd() if it is valid, to speed up
  operation on quasi-filesystems such as ClearCase.

+ add configure option --with-screen=XawPlus for XawPlus library.

+ add configure option --with-screen=ncursesw to allow building the
  curses driver using the wide-character version of ncurses.

+ add check in tcap.c for terminfo kmous capability like xterm, in case
  we are running in screen, which also supports xterm mouse protocol.

+ modify support for "^X-e" to make it use the whole line if the current
  buffer is a directory.

Locale Improvements:

+ change default for --with-locale option to yes.  Note that this
  option is only tested if locale support is found, and it is becoming
  less common to encounter systems with broken locale support.

+ add "locale" to the "$cfgopts" variable if vile is compiled with
  locale support.

+ modify vile-manfilt to decode UTF-8 emitted by groff 1.18

+ in UTF-8 locale, adjust termcap driver to use UTF-8 to display codes
  in the 160-255 range, setting vile's locale to non-UTF-8 locale.
  (yes, this is a short-term fix).

+ add configure check for wctype functions, to work around defect in
  glibc's ctype functions: in UTF-8 locale, the latter return useless
  information on character classes.  This works on Solaris.

+ move upper/lower case-conversion into tables so that locale support can
  augment the built-in translation.

New Commands:

+ "which-keywords" macro shows the location of files containing keywords
  for the given majormode.

+ "edit-buffer" simplifies "which-keywords" and similar macros.

+ "encode-attributes-til" and "write-encoded-til" convert the syntax
  highlighting in a region back to control/A sequences, or write the
  corresponding data to a file.  There is a corresponding alias
  "decode-attributes-til" for "attribute-cntl_a-sequences-til".

+ "substitute-all-til" implements the "^X-s" binding.

New Modes:

+ add "overlap-matches" mode, to control whether highlighting for the
  visual-matches mode should skip to the next character, or past the
  current match when checking.

+ add "percent-crlf" mode, which controls the threshold at which the
  whole file will be considered DOS-format (CRLF record separators)
  if the given percentage already ends with CR/LF.

+ "yankmotion" mode controls whether the cursor should be moved as in vi
  after yanking text.

+ add "xterm-title" mode.

+ add logmode majormode, to distinguish some makefiles from logfiles.

+ add "texmode" majormode, as a variation of latexmode.

New Variables and Functions:

+ add several short-named relational operators "&geq", "&gt", "&leq",
  "&lt", "&neq", "&sgeq", "&sgt", "&sleq", "&slt", "&sneq" to reduce
  the need for "&not".

+ add "$pathname-separator" variable.

Syntax Filters:

+ add Ruby syntax filter.

+ add syntax filter for rpm ".spec" files.

+ add syntax filter for PostScript ".ps" files.

+ add syntax filter for enscript ".st" files.

+ add xml-filter based on html-filter.

+ add pot-filt.l, to highlight ".po" files.  Using sh-filt.l was
  not satisfactory since the quoting rules were not close enough.

+ add syntax filters and corresponding modes for assembler (GNU and M$),
  info and texinfo.

+ add -j option to c-filt.c, to implement some java-specific features
  such as "$" as part of an identifier, and \u escapes.

+ add un-filters (atr2ansi, atr2html, atr2text) which convert encoded
  control/A text to different forms.

+ modify spell.rc, spellflt.l and select.c to allow spell filter to
  work as a built-in filter.

+ modify built-in spell filter to work with encrypted files.

+ add a -t option to filters, to pass tabstop value.  Use this in
  makefilt.l to provide better highlighting of problems with leading
  whitespace.

+ modify manpage.rc to check if the current buffer is perl, and if so,
  to render contents using pod2man or pod2text.

+ set "vilemode" for [History] buffer.

+ reorder lex-based filters to allow building with flex 2.5.31, which
  introduces several incompatibilities with respect to flex 2.5.4
  and lex.

+ add configure check/warning for flex 2.5.31, which has broken support
  for the "-P" option used for built-in filters.

Win32 changes:

+ implemented tilde-expansion on win32.  Actually it was present, but
  globbing did not work, and the environment variables did not match
  the Windows 2000 configuration.

VMS changes:

+ filename matching is case-independent, allowing majormodes to be
  recognized.

General changes:

+ syntax filters can now be dynamically loaded.  This allows the
  main executable to be smaller, and is faster than external
  filters.  Loadable filters are configured using the
  "--with-loadable-filters" option to configure script.  This works
  for several platforms using gcc.

+ add configure script option for largefile support, change buffer
  size datatypes an unsigned type to allow for reading files larger
  than a signed value would allow.

+ modify historical-buffer to allow tab/back-tab to cycle through
  the first 9 buffers, solves the problem of seeing more than the
  first few possibilities on the message line.  Toggling with the
  repeated '_' selects the first buffer shown.

+ modify name-completion to allow completion of filenames containing
  a '$'.

+ relax a check in ":w" by checking if the given name differs from
  the current filename.  If so, do not require ":w!" to write a
  readonly file to a different location.  This allows one to reuse
  the filename history for ":w".

+ modify special treatment of "#" which prevents it from being
  shifted with ">>" by disabling that when cindent is unset.

+ add a few ex-commands:  nu, j!, wq!

+ modify statevars.c to make read/write of $title consistent, i.e.,
  will warn that it cannot be set in the termcap configuration.

+ modify [Messages] buffer so that it is only invisible, not a
  scratch buffer.  The latter makes it be automatically removed
  after viewing and closing the window.

+ add pattern for "ant" (Java make-program) to a few of the patterns
  in finderr.c

+ modify PromptAndSet() to allow a cancelled prompt for variable's
  value to store an ERROR token, which can be tested in scripts with
  &error.

+ split-out modes.rc from filters.rc to make configuration more
  flexible, e.g., for configure --disable-filters.

+ modify minubuffer editing to allow one to use ^Ga to toggle
  miniedit mode and append to the buffer shown from a previous
  command rather than having it erased.

+ modify name-completion for majormode names used as macro
  parameters to use the long name (with "mode" ending) rather than
  the short name, for consistency.

+ modify perl.xs to allow for $VILE_LIBDIR_PATH to be a list of
  paths.  Only add the corresponding xxx/perl names to @INC if they
  correspond to a real directory.

+ change minimum/maximum repeat counts for regular expressions from
  a byte to an integer.

+ modify interpretation of "~local", "~with", "~elsewith" and
  "~endwith" so they are within the normal "~if"/"~endif" hierarchy.

+ modify minibuffer editing to shift the display left/right as
  needed after doing the initial tab of a name-completion, in case
  that left the cursor position past the end of the line.

+ add experimental plugin support and example.

Locale Improvements:

+ workaround for broken locale table on Solaris8 and Windows2000,
  etc., which shows tab as both as printable and a control
  character.  The ISO C standard states that control characters are
  not printable.

+ extend workaround for UTF-8 locale in termcap driver to translate
  UTF-8 input to Latin-1.

+ improve/extend checks for locales which correspond to 8-bit
  character encoding, resetting to POSIX locale (ASCII) if the
  nl_langinfo() function returns a value that does not look like
  ASCII or ISO-8859-x.  This change applies to the termcap/terminfo
  and X11 drivers.

+ show locale and encoding values in the header of the [Printable
  Chars] buffer.

+ add $encoding and $locale variables to show what vile's internal
  8-bit encoding and locale are set to.

+ turn on locale feature on win32

New Commands:

+ add macro "which-menu" to which.rc, which shows the locations that
  xvile checks for a menu-file.

+ add macro "show-each-buffer" (file showeach.rc), which splits up
  the screen into equal chunks to display as many of the non-scratch
  buffers as possible.

+ add macro "which-filter" to show which locations would be checked
  for an external filter.  If the filter happens to be built-in,
  this is also noted, in the message line.

+ improve "eval" command, provide for mixture of functions and other
  tokens which are passed to the script interpreter.

+ modify SpellFilter macro to use the results from [Filter Messages]
  with the error-finder to step through the misspellings.

+ add macro "show-filtermsgs" to show syntax filter messages,
  setting the list to the error-buffer to provide simple stepping
  through the errors which are found.

+ add commands "popup-buffer" and "popdown-buffer", which open/close
  windows for the given buffer rather than changing the current
  window to show a different buffer.  The "popup-buffer" command is
  a wrapper for the existing logic used for help and similar
  commands.  The "popdown-buffer" command differs from
  "delete-window" by closing all windows for the given buffer.

+ add command "for-buffers", which performs the same command for the
  specified buffers.

New Modes:

+ add "reader-policy" mode, which allows one to control whether vile
  will fall-back to line-by-line reading if it encounters an error.

+ add mode "for-buffers", which specifies whether kill-buffer (and
  for-buffers) command use globbing or regular expressions.

+ add "filtermsgs" mode, for built-in filters to report syntax
  errors into [Filter Messages] buffer so that one may use the error
  finder to locate these.

+ add mode "ignoresuffix", which tells vile to strip the given
  pattern from a filename before matching majormode suffixes against
  it.

+ add mode "showchar", which turns on a field in the modeline that
  tells what the character value is at the current editing position.

New Variables and Functions:

+ add new operators to make it simpler for macros to check for
  features:  "&isa", "&classof" and "&mclass".

+ add "&match" and "&cmatch" functions for checking if a given
  regular expression matches a string.

+ add "$error-tabstop" variable, to allow changing the tabstop value
  used when interpreting "%C" results in the error finder.  Most
  programs assume 8, and that does not work well when editing
  buffers with other tabstops such as 4.

+ add "$goal-column" variable for debugging.

Syntax Filters:

+ modify ".table" command in filters parsing to read the user's
  color definitions, e.g., from .vile.keywords, as is done in a
  ".source" command.

+ add a ".brief" to filters parsing, which uses "?" to match zero or
  all of the following characters, in constrast to ".abbrev" which
  uses "*" to match zero or more of the following characters.

+ several new majormodes, with corresponding syntax filters:

    + ".jsp" files are really (close to) a variety of HTML files.
      Add simple support for JSP in htmlfilt.l
    + add iss-, nsis- and ini-modes
    + add lispmode, to use vile-lisp-filt.
    + add nmakemode, for special cases such as M$'s ".dsp" files.
    + add syntax filter for AutoIt version 3 and majormode au3mode.
    + add syntax filters for iss- and ini-modes.
    + add vbsmode using ".vbs" suffix based on basmode.

+ extend suffixes for several majormodes:

    + add ".asp" to jspmode suffixes
    + add ".cls" filetype for vbmode, add symbols for Visual Basic
      class modules to vb.key
    + add ".dcl" filetype for dclmode.
    + add ".el" to suffixes for lispmode.
    + add ".hpp" to suffixes for cppmode.
    + add ".jad" suffix for javamode for Java Disassembler.
    + add ".mm" to nroff mode.
    + add ".ph" and ".pph" to esqlmode suffixes.
    + add ".shar" to shmode suffixes.
    + add ".termcap" and ".terminfo" suffixes for tcmode and timode
    + add ".tic" as a suffix for timode.
    + make "TODO" a txtmode file.
    + modify pattern for logmode to allow filenames such as gmake.out

+ add a mode-pathname setting for cppmode, so files under (for
  example) /usr/include/g++ will be treated as C++.  Newer C++
  headers have no suffixes.

+ add an "-s" option to c-filt.c, for JavaScript (to support
  jsmode).  Use this to control whether to allow regular expressions
  in certain cases.

+ modify ShowFormatted macro to support "-mm" macros.

+ modify spellflt.l to allow it to be used in winvile, using npopen,
  as a built-in filter.

+ rewrote pascal syntax filter in lex, adding highlighting for
  numbers, and TurboC, Delphi comments.

+ modify cppmode's suffixes to look for .C, .H and .CC only on
  systems where filenames are case-sensitive.

+ split up the majormode "suffixes" into suffixes, mode-filename and
  mode-pathname to make it clearer how to associated regular
  expressions with the filename for majormodes.

+ change highlighting for misspelled words to Error class.

+ add environment variable VILE_SPELL_FILT to vile-spell-filt, to
  allow overriding the compiled-in program and options used for
  performing the lookup.

+ many improvements to parsing and highlighting in existing filters
  (see CHANGES).

X11 changes:

+ add --disable-imake option to configure script, from xterm.

+ modify xvile's wheelScrollAmount resource to scroll by pages if
  the resource value is negative.

+ revise lookup for xvile's menu file to look for dotnames in the
  current and home-directories, while non-dotnames may be found
  there and in $HOME/.vile and on $startup-path.  Combine this with
  changing the default for $menu-file back to ".vilemenu" as
  documented rather than "vilemenu.rc".  The latter name is used in
  the non-dotname locations if $menu-file is a dot-name.

Win32 changes:

+ several changes to allow winvile to remember recent files and
  folders

  + winvile remembers up to 20 of the files it has recently
    opened/created (feature disabled by default).

  + winvile remembers up to 20 of the folders it has recently
    visited via an implicit or explicit cd (feature disabled by
    default).

  + Remembered files/folders are accessible and "replayable" from
    winvile's system menu.

  + Two new modes:  recent-folders and recent-files specify maximum
    number of folders/files that may appear in winvile's system
    menu.  Range is 0-20; a value of 0 disables feature.

  + Two new commands:  purge-recent-folders and purge-recent-files
    clear the list of folders/files that appear in winvile's system
    menu.

  + modes and commands work in console mode (minimizes conflicts
    when sharing a single vile.rc), but the files/folders that
    console vile accesses are _not_ remembered.

+ improve the winvile resize/status window:

  + make resize window wide enough to show geometries that exceed 99
    columns

  + make resize window continually center itself over the editor's
    frame (NT and XP only).

+ modify dequoting of winvile's command-line in ntwinio.c to allow
  for quoting to be within parameters, e.g.,

        winvile +"100" makefile

+ reenable SHIFT+INSERT in the win32 mini-buffer (for both vile.exe
  and winvile.exe).  Unfortunately, the cygwin shell eats
  SHIFT+INSERT for console vile (mini-buffer input only).  now, it's
  once again possible to:

        $ vile somefile
        /<shift+insert>     <- search for string sitting on clipboard

+ modify environment variable lookup for win32 to look in the
  registry for the VILE* environment variables:

        VILEINIT
        VILE_HELP_FILE
        VILE_LIBDIR_PATH
        VILE_STARTUP_PATH
        VILE_ERROR_ABORT

  This change is made to make it more easily installable; Windows
  changes to environment variables apparently do not take effect
  until the machine is rebooted.  Registry changes take effect
  immediately.

+ add package script for winvile using Inno Setup.

+ improve cursor display in winvile:

    + when selecting text, show I-beam cursor.

    + when selecting a movable mode line, show a double-headed,
      north-south cursor.

    + when moving the mouse over a movable mode line, show a
      double-headed, north-south cursor.

+ don't allow mouse capture if the left mouse button is pressed in
  the area encompassing the editor's last two lines (message line
  and nonmovable mode line).  Don't allow mouse capture if the left
  mouse button is pressed on movable mode line.  Corrects
  long-standing winvile bugs.

+ add graphical change-directory to [win]vile via new command
  "wincd".  The graphical change-directory is also accessible via
  winvile's system menu and right mouse popup menu.

+ ensure that files created via winvile's "Save As" and vile's ":f"
  commands are remembered in winvile's "Recent Files" list.

+ make filename completion with cygwin ignore case.

VMS changes:

+ add VMS mode record-attrs, modify logic in vms_creat() to use this
  information to make the default VFC files written from DCL
  editable.  Those use PRN (print file format) record attributes.

+ modify which.rc to use &pcat rather than $pathname-separator,
  since the latter is ambiguous on VMS.

+ modify infer_majormode() to work with VMS pathnames.

+ correct logic for VMS pathnames so that a directory buffer will,
  as on Unix, give the same buffer name as the directory leaf.

+ improve fakevms test-driver and related OPT_VMS_PATH code for VMS
  pathnames, making name-completion work for VMS pathnames on Unix.

+ modify catnap() function to use IEEE floating point on IA64, since
  that platform does not support F-floats.

+ modify vmsbuild.com and descrip.mms to work with IA64.

General changes:

+ implement basic support for Unicode (see Locale Improvements).

+ implement vi-style modeline, limited to setting buffer- and window-
  modes, or majormodes.

+ implement patterns as line-specifiers in ex-mode.

+ revised command-line option parsing to use scripting more effectively:

  + multiple startup files are allowed.

  + most command-line options are translated to their equivalent script
and executed, rather than saving state for the most recent of each
option.  This makes the -s, -S, -g, -G options obsolete (but still
accepted).

  + add "-c" option (the POSIX form of "+").

+ disallow source'ing from the current directory if the source'd file
  might be writable by other users.

+ make mouse work for curses driver just like the termcap/terminfo
  driver.

+ improve majormodes for complex fences by initializing the (non-string)
  buffer mode values for submode groups according to the values in
  the submode.  This makes ignorecase work as expected in the complex
  fence matching for vbmode.

+ improve name-completion by saving/restoring the original window and
  buffer when [Completions] closes, rather than the closest window.

+ add named marks for decimal digits .

+ modify ":describe-bindings" to show whether the command accepts a
  range, and whether it is undoable.

+ correct comparisons used for handling bounds in regular expressions,
  e.g., the "2" in "\(this\|[l-m]\)\{2\}".

+ change behavior of regular expression OR'd alternatives - only the
  first match was used rather than the longest one.

+ modify "filename" shown in :show-filtermsgs to use the buffer name
  if no filename is available.

Locale Improvements:

+ several changes to provide usable Unicode support:

  + add mode percent-utf8 to set a threshold for file-encoding mode
"auto" detection of UTF-16/UTF-32 files.

  + file-encoding mode can be set to "auto", to detect UTF-16 files,
which are loaded as UTF-8.

  + UTF-8 files are detected based on the file-encoding mode as well.

  + Unicode values are displayed (where no locale controls) as "\uXXXX"
in 4 hexadecimal digits.

  + add unicode-as-hex mode to override locale, forcing Unicode values
to display as "\uXXXX".

  + for buffers with UTF-8 encoding, show illegal bytes as "\?XX".

  + Unicode values can be inserted into buffers using ^VuXXXX form.

  + modify manfilt.c to provide UTF-8 output in a UTF-8 locale.

  Limitations:

  + terminal drivers support Unicode display in varying degrees:

+ winvile - multicolumn characters, depends on font selection

+ termcap/terminfo - relies on terminal emulator, knows about
  multicolumn characters

+ xvile - displays only single-column characters

+ curses - depends on the curses library, e.g., ncursesw

+ win32 console - not yet implemented

  + combining characters are not combined.

  + registers hold byte data, will show the UTF-8 encoding for data
rather than a \uXXXX (unless the file-encoding for [Registers]
is changed).

  + some "characters" such as the report for yanked text is still
really a byte-count.

  + inserting a \uXXXX into the minibuffer will display the UTF-8
encoding.

  + regular expressions are not wide-character aware.

  + UTF-16 and UTF-32 files are detected based on BOM and/or the
contents of the first line of the file.

  + external syntax filters do not handle BOM or UTF-16, UTF-32.

+ add character classes [:ident:], [:octal:] and [:path:], and change
  the association of \w and \W to [:ident:], making [:alnum:] no longer
  include "_".

+ modify regexp.c so tab is not matched by \p or [[:print:]] for
  consistency with POSIX regular expressions.

New Commands:

+ add rename-other-buffer command, use that to modify spell.rc so it
  can work with scratch buffers which otherwise would be lost, e.g.,
  "[Help]".

+ add "describe-&functions" and "describe-$variables" commands.

+ add ":goto-percent" command.

+ add (nvi/vim) ex-commands: a!, c!, i!

+ add ":c" as alias for ":change-til" (nvi/vim).

New Modes:

+ UTF-8 is supported via new modes "byteorder-mark" and
  "file-encoding"

+ add mode xterm-fkeys, to allow termcap driver to generate
  shift/control/alt modifiers for function keys.

+ add "rectangle-insert-mode".

+ add "showvariables" mode, for testing expressions used in [Variables].

+ add "echo-to-clipboard" mode for Win32 hosts:
  all text selected with the mouse is automatically
  copied to the Windows clipboard.

+ add "bufname-expr", "identifier-expr" and "pathname-expr" buffer modes to
  provide regular expression parsing of $bufname, $identifier and $pathname
  in the show-variables command as well as for the related expansion of
  tokens from the cursor position.  If the expressions are empty, the code
  falls through to use the corresponding older character-class parsing.
  Default values are provided for each *-expr mode.

+ add cursor-tokens mode to control whether vile uses regular
  expressions, character classes or a combination to obtain tokens
  from the screen.

New Variables and Functions:

+ add new symbols "$return" and "$_" which can be used to implement simple
  functions .

+ add "%n" and "%N" substitutions for $title-format

+ change "%n" in modeline substitutions to use file name (pathleaf)
  rather than relative path (shorten_path).  Use "%r" for the latter.

+ add "&gtmotion" function for scripts.

+ add $buf-fname-expr to show the combined bufname-expr, pathname-expr
  used to interpret ^X-e.

+ improve handling of enumerated values by forcing all to lowercase,
  e.g., to eliminate the need for the special case in 9.1x to handle
  "TRUE" and "true".

+ update title when doing a "cd", in case it uses %r substitution.

Syntax Filters:

+ modify syntax filters to use flex's character classes.

+ add configure check for lex's which support character classes, and
  add filters/noclass.sh to work around those which do not.

+ several new majormodes, with corresponding syntax filters:

+ add confmode for "ordinary" config-files.
+ add csmode (for C# ".cs" files).
+ add csvmode for ".csv" files.
+ add delphi mode
+ add docbookmode
+ add lua mode
+ add mcrlmode for mCRL/mCRL2 modeling language.
+ add midlmode, for Microsoft IDL.
+ add rtfmode for RTF files.
+ add wbtmode for WinBatch.
+ add xpmmode
+ add majormodes for bnf, css, php

+ extend suffixes for several majormodes:

+ add ".ebuild" suffix for shmode.

+ modify preamble for xml- and html-modes to ensure that the first
  tag determines the type.

+ add output from rcshist to diffmode.

+ add ".vbp" files to inimode.

+ add ".reg" files to inimode.

+ add ".ddl" suffix to sqlmode.

+ add ".dsr" suffix to vbmode.

+ add several package-related suffixes to sqlmode.

Other improvements to majormodes:

+ modify majormode inferencing to check preamble for [Standard Input]
  and [Output] buffers.

+ modify preamble patterns for shell modes such as awk, etc., to allow
  for programs without an absolute pathname, e.g., "#! awk".

+ improved cppmode's identifier-expr.

+ updated python keywords

+ improve bas-filt.l by not highlighting incidental matches in the
  attribute section of a Visual Basic form-file.

+ add section definitions to vbmode.

+ add complex fences to vbmode.

+ improve vl-filt.l based on Verilog LRM draft

+ fill in complete list of event names for xres.key from Xt/TMParse.c

+ fix sh-filt.l for parameter substitutions containing an escaped
  quote, e.g.,
    VERSION=${VERSION#*VERSION \"}
    VERSION=${VERSION%\"*}

+ change htmlfilt.l to highlight character- and URI-references as
  numbers to make them distinct from strings with ordinary text.

+ add "+", ",", "&", "@" and ";" to URL patterns in filters.

+ fixes for termcap syntax highlighter, i.e., tcmode:
  + allow description field to be empty
  + color the "|" between aliases.
  + improve string- and escape-parsing

+ fixes for terminfo syntax highlighter, i.e., timode:
  + allow description field to be empty
  + color the "|" between aliases.
  + allow aliases to contain blanks.

+ add check in m4-filt.c for unbalanced quote, show the affected area
  as an error.

+ several improvements and fixes to lex-filt.l (a rewrite which
  makes it very complete, however it now requires flex).

+ minor fixes to make most of the lex filters build with "old" lex,

+ make autocolor work for curses-driver, e.g., --with-screen=ncurses

+ improve vilefilt.l, highlighting mode names and displaying error
  for unknown mode, function and state variables.

+ modify spellflt.l to chop words according to Camel-case, so
  tokens such as "ChopWords" are treated by the spell checker as
  multiple words.

+ modify spell- and txt-filters to allow users to add words to their
  respective ".keywords" files to override the builtin highlighting.

+ make ShowFormatted macro more configurable by allowing environment
  variables $VILE_NROFF_FILT and $VILE_TABLE_FILT to override the
  choice of programs therein.

X11 changes:

+ add -class option to xvile.

+ make cursor-adjustment after paste in xvile dependent on whether the
  pasted text ended with a newline.

Win32 changes:

+ change winvile's registry subkey for recent-folders and recent-files
  to match environment variable settings from 9.4r, e.g., change
    "Software\winvile\MRUFiles"
  to
    "Software\VI Like Emacs\MRUFiles"

+ modify winvile's command-line parsing, adding "-i" option to perform
  the case used for "Send To": use the part of the command line after
  options as the filename and change working directory to match.

+ improve paste-performance in winvile by passing whole-line chunks
  to the insert-function.

+ improve repainting in winvile while processing external command.
  also modify keyboard handling to provide type-ahead while processing
  external command.

+ correct order of evaluation from 9.4w when setting record-separator,
  which was setting "crlf" ending temporarily when computing the buffer
  size, even when "lf" was intended.  That would cause an immediate
  write from winvile (without change) for a buffer to write too many
  characters.

+ add a character-class check to find_b_file() to prevent names such
  as "<vile.1>" from being canonicalized into "vile.1" on win32 via
  FindFirstFile().  This fixes a problem where ^X-n would sometimes
  display the wrong buffer.

+ add shifted-cursor-key bindings for winvile, like xterm.

+ add KEY_xxx definitions to OS/2 and Win32 drivers, defining up to
  KEY_F35 for the former and KEY_F24 for the latter .

+ add &pquote in manpage.rc, to allow it to format html output when
  vile-manfilt, etc., reside in directories containing spaces in their
  name.

+ correct check of return of ffread() in spellflt.l's workaround for
  platforms such as win32 which have no usable popen().  That made
  spelling checks require two ^X-i presses.

+ modify ntwinio.c to invoke build_recent_file_and_folder_menus() in
  the WM_INITMENUPOPUP event rather than WM_SYSCOMMAND.  This makes
  winvile initialize the recent-folders and recent-files if one uses a
  right-click on the title of the window.

+ modify spell filter so that it can get VILE_SPELL_FILT from the
  registry on win32.

+ improved winvile's "flash".

+ fixes for 64-bit warnings of Visual Studio .NET 2003

+ modify wvwrap.exe to work with pathnames containing "$", "&" and "'".

+ improve winvile.iss (Inno Setup):
  + use values in patchlev.h to set the package version information.
  + add context menu and Send To shortcuts
  + install the keyword files

VMS changes:

+ minor build-fixes for VMS:

  + modify vmsbuild.com to simplify workaround for broken MMS 3.8

  + provide dummy variables for xvile to reflect modularization changes
with respect to vmsvt.c

+ move VMS-specific code from termio.c to vmsvt.c

Other portability:

+ use va_copy() in dofmt() to work with Linux on powerpc

+ modify configure script to omit lex-filt.l from build if lex is not
  really flex, since the tables are too large for the older program.

+ improve os2vio.c, adding a check to distinguish between fullscreen
  and VIO to allow using bright background colors in the latter .

+ modified regexp.c, add headers vl_regex.h, vl_alloc.h and vl_ctype.h
  to allow it to be easily built outside vile .

+ add KEY_BackTab to the output of show-key-names

+ fix kcod2prc() so that a shifted-tab is converted to "Shift+^I"
  rather than emitting a literal tab in the result.

Performance:

+ modify the symbol-table lookup in filters.c to use tsearch() when
  available.  For an 8Mb rtf file this improved performance by about
  a factor of two (on Linux - Visual C++ has no tsearch).

+ use new module blist (binary search of lists) to reduce linear
  searches in the places where btree is not already used.

+ add configure check for getc_unlocked(), putc_unlocked() and
  tsearch() to use in performance improvements for syntax filters.

General changes:

+ modify prompt for new mode value to consistently show the mode's full
  name.

+ modify wrapmargin mode to use negative values as a count from the
  left of the screen.

+ modify behavior of ":ww!" to act like ":w!", allowing it to write
  all files.

+ trim trailing blanks from text handled in modelines in case there
  was a ^M.

+ modify treatment of ":setl dos" to behave the same as ":set-dos".
  That makes it possible to put a "vile:dos" in a modeline and make
  vile convert the line-endings.

+ flush the standard output before writing version message using the
  standard error, in case there was some output pending.

+ modify curses-driver to avoid a curses-refresh (repainting the
  whole screen) between a shell command and the "Press return to
  continue" message.

+ improved scripting, making it simpler to save a boolean mode-value in
  a variable and restore it by assignment.

Locale Improvements:

+ improve locale initialization, checking if there is no installed
  narrow locale corresponding to the given (wide) locale.  In that
  case, default to either ISO-8859-1 or ASCII, depending on whether
  there was actually a wide locale whose encoding is UTF-8 or
  ISO-8859-1, or neither.

+ force the [Printable Chars] buffer to use file-encoding=8bit,
  makes it display consistently legal codes in the second column.

+ make ISO-8859-1 data display consistently in UTF-8 buffer as "\?xx".

+ provide workaround for systems without nl_langinfo(CODESET)).

+ make transpose-characters work for wide-characters.

+ make "~" (flip-character) and related case-conversion work for
  Unicode in 0..255 range.

New Commands:

none

New Modes:

+ modify mktbls to allow special-case alias for modes which have no
  convenient abbreviation.

+ add "fk" alias for file-encoding mode.

+ add a "locale" value for file-encoding, use that as the default.

New Variables and Functions:

+ add $buf-encoding symbol, to show the actual encoding used by the
  current buffer vs the file-encoding which is one of vile's internal
  names such as "8bit" or "locale".

Syntax Filters:

+ modify parsing of keyword files to accept an empty parameter for
  "abbrev" and "brief", to disable the "*" and "?" feature.

+ remove obsolete lex-filters for perl and ruby (only the C versions
  have been supported).

+ improved lisp filter:

  + change class color of parentheses to "Action" to make them easier
    to distinguish from "String".

  + color binary, octal and hexadecimal constants, as well as parse
    the "#\" patterns.

+ improved perl syntax filter:

  + make perlpod sections more readable by highlighting the control
    lines.

  + add double-quote to quote-delimitors.

  + show interpreted symbols in double-quoted regular expressions.

  + if "/e" modifier is set for regular expression, show interpreted
    symbols for that.

  + show regular expression modifiers in keyword-attribute, not string

  + color &foo as a variable.

  + color both class and member in variables such as $foo::bar

  + add ".t" to perlmode, using $mode-pathname

+ improved ruby syntax filter:

  + match keywords containing '!' '?' and '=' depending on the context.

  + remove unmatchable characters from the list of those matched
    following $. 

  + change the instance variable matching to @@?{KEYWORD} instead of
    @+{KEYWORD}. 

      + highlight constants (keywords beginning with a capital) with    
        the Type attribute. 

  + highlight binary integers (such as 0b10101).

  + disable "*" and "?" abbreviation feature in ruby.key, allowing
    match of "defined?", etc.

    Other improvements to filters:

  + make vile's symbol-tables accessible to vilemode in winvile.

  + minor improvement to vbmode's fence-if to ignore lines with
    continuations.

  + improve here-document parsing in sh-filt.l to work with "words"
    which contain blanks.

Other improvements to majormodes:

+ strip redundant "mode" from majormode names, avoiding the potential
  for creating foomodemode when the script says
	  define-majormode foomode

+ remove ".scm" from c-suffixes pattern.

+ add schememode.

X11 changes:

+ update input-method code, from xterm.

+ add xvile resource setting "openIm" to control whether it tries to
  open input-method.

+ improved handling of runtime X errors, xvile will attempt to save
  buffers.

Win32 changes:

+ simplify wvlwrap.exe by disabling globbing temporarily.  This allows
  opening files whose names contain square brackets. 

+ suppress part of wildcard expansion in call to expand_wild_args(),
  e.g., for command-line of winvile, since that interferes with
  reading files whose names contain square brackets.

VMS changes:

none

Other portability:

+ improve configure checks for iconv.

Performance:

none

Highlights since 9.7 (aside from build- and bug-fixes):

General changes:

+ many improvements to UTF-8, for regular expressions and input.

+ implement user-definable operators

+ vile.hlp and all ".doc" plain-text files are generated from html.

  http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile-toc.html

+ highlight matches in which-keywords, etc., and put a hyperlink on the
  highlighted text to view the corresponding file.

+ add a brief mode format "%M" for modeline-format

+ improve checks for insecure file permissions.

+ improve which-source and which-exec commands, showing which files
  fail the checks for insecure permissions.

+ new configure script options:

  + --with-symlink, which augments --program-suffix to make it
    simple(r) to install versioned binaries.

  + options for transforming program name upon install:
    -- program-prefix, --program-suffix, --program-transform-name

Locale Improvements:

+ add environment variable VILE_LOCALE_MAPPING to help with special
  cases of associating wide/narrow locales, e.g., where the narrow
  locale is only available under a non-empty suffix.

+ regular expressions support character classes for UTF-8.

+ regular expressions support \< and \> markers for UTF-8.

+ format-til, lower-til, upper-til and flip-til work with UTF-8

+ xvile uses \uXXXX format when the font does not contain a glyph for a
  given character.

+ accept ^VUddddd input for Unicode in decimal (base ten).

New Commands:

+ new command-line option "-F" tells vile to only run the syntax
  filters for the given files, writing the attributed text to the
  standard output.  Used this option to highlight the code-examples in
  vile's html and documentation.

+ added several "list-XXX" aliases to match "show-XXX" commands, for
  consistency.

+ "append-number", "insert-number", "overwrite-number" commands work
  with characters entered as numbers.

+ "define-menu-entry" modifies xvile menu entries.

+ "set-extra-colors" allows setting extra colors for special buffers
  such as [Settings].

+ "show-filtercolors" macro shows the class names and their colors for
  the current majormode.

+ "show-extra-colors" shows classes and colors modified by
  "set-extra-colors".

+ "show-local-modes" is an easier-to-remember variation for the
  count+"show-modes" combination.

+ "show-undo-stack" shows the contents of the undo-stack.

+ "show-wide-printable" provides a way to see details for other "pages"
  than the ASCII/Latin-1 0-255 code.

+ "store-operator" stores a macro which is treated as an operator.

New Modes:

+ "spaces-after-sentence" is now a buffer mode, to allow it to be part
  of a majormode.

+ "check-access" makes the check for insecure file-permissions
  configurable by the user.

+ "percent-autocolor" can be used to override the autocolor mode for
  very large files.

+ "reuse-position" allows users to specify that vile should restore the
  current line/column position when (re)displaying a scratch buffer
  built with liststuff.

New Variables and Functions:

+ &bchanged, &fchanged and state variables $bchanged (same as
  $modified) and $fchanged make it simpler for scripts to check if
  buffer/file timestamps differ.

+ $cfgopts now shows drivers (ansi, borland, ntcons, ntwin, os2vio,
  vmsvt) and other useful settings (iconv, multibyte).

+ $cmd-encoding variable allows control of minibuffer's encoding

+ $cmd-motion variable is used in user-defined operators.

+ $font is always available, but readonly for non-GUI configurations.

+ $kill-size and $kill-limit variables to improve scripting with the
  $kill variable.

+ $latin1-expr variable specifies whether a derived narrow locale
  really has Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding.

+ $modeline-limit limits the offset into each line that vile scans for
  modelines.

+ $term-cols, $term-lines and $term-resizes give the terminal
  dimensions, and tell if it is in a resizable window.

+ $title-encoding controls whether vile 8-bit or UTF-8 encoding is used
  when setting xterm title.

Syntax Filters:

+ new "-c" option to vile-key-filt tells it to display tokens in their
  final color rather than based on syntax.

+ new "-Q" option for all syntax filters makes the filter write a
  ".keyword" table to stderr to show the effect of the "-k" option.

+ extend syntax keyword parsing to allow flags to be set for each
  keyword, e.g., to mark keywords that are used to delimit comments.

+ vile-awk-filt improvements

  + highlight inline comments.

  + highlight regular expression used as parameter, e.g., in sub().

  + change $0, etc., to Ident2 class for consistency with other

  + highlight some cases of unbalanced right-parenthesis or
    curly-braces.

  + correct DSTRING expression, to handle "\\\\" value.

  + accept literal spaces in patterns.

+ vile-basic-filt improvements

  + allow continuation marker in comments

  + support .NET-style preprocessor directives.

+ vile-ecl-filt (ECLiPSe/Prolog)

  + fix typo in STARTQUERY pattern

  + parse based-numbers.

  + highlight strings and numbers.

+ vile-html-filt improvements

  + "<%" "%>" are recognized anywhere - not just outside tags.

  + ensure that "server" is the tag, not one of the named values, e.g.,
    "<server>" vs "<foo server=bar>".

  + use language value in script tag, e.g., to handle C# scripts.

  + modify check for language value to accept anything beginning
    "javascript", e.g., "javascript1.1".

  + check for "src" property in script tag before deciding whether to
    use JavaScript keywords.

  + create separate table "htmlprop" for HTML properties.

  + highlight CSS embedded in HTML.

+ vile-lisp-filt (also for scheme filter)

  + highlight quasiquote/backtick (`), quote ('), unquote (,) and
    unquote-splice (,@), including unquoted sub-expressions.

  + highlight the parentheses of quoted expressions in a different
    color.

+ vile-php-filt improvements

  + identifiers may begin with "_".

  + color heredocs and nowdocs

  + color comments beginning with "#".

  + add preamble pattern for phpmode.

+ nroff filter allows for macro-names to be used for fonts.

+ spell filter now uses $TMPDIR rather than putting its temporary files
  in the current directory.

+ vile-rpm-filter improvements:

  + recognize keywords ending with digits, such as "Source0".

  + distinguish one-liner tags from multi-line sections.

  + ignore case of keywords.

  + add keywords for %XXX variants of %{XXX} names.

  + highlight %XXX words in single-quotes.

+ vile-ruby-filt now handles stacked here-documents.

+ vile-scheme-filt

  + handle combinations of quotation literals.

  + highlight the unquote/unquote-splicing keywords.

  + handle the optional scheme parentheses extension ('[' and ']').

+ vile-sh-filt

  + handle "${number}", "$(commands)", "$((expression))",
    "${name#value}", etc.

  + handle escape character in here-document.

+ vile-sql-filt improvements:

  + allow host variables in LEAD state.

  + improve parsing of "@" character.

  + allow newlines inside quoted strings.

+ vile-vile-filt improvements:

  + display numeric codes following a control/V as in a map-command as
    numbers or errors if fewer digits were found than expected

+ vile-yacc-filt improvements:

  + highlight all of the terminal symbols with "Terminal" class.

  + modify keyword ".merge" directive to make it distinct from
    ".source".  The former reads without modifying the table name, the
    latter builds a new table.  Use this feature in the yacc syntax
    filter to keep the terminal names and C keywords separate.

+ vile-xml-filt improvements:

  + use the prefixes defined by xmlns properties to select different
    symbol tables.

  + modify the way keywords are loaded, to support multiple symbol
    tables defined via the keyword files using the ".include" feature.

Other improvements to majormodes:

+ lots of new file suffixes added to existing modes, of course.

+ new majormodes:

  + "ant" and "mvn" (maven)

  + asp

  + dtd

  + haskell

  + mailcap

  + objc (objective-c)

  + vb6

  + xq (XQuery)

  + xsl

+ add option for C# verbatim string literals to c-filter.c

+ add to diffmode's preamble pattern to allow it to detect diff's in a
  piped input.

+ vbmode and vb6mode provide try-bloc,, "with" and "select" complex
  fences.

+ yacc.key updated to bison 2.4.1 and byacc 20100610.

+ modify xresmode to include shell-output from appres, e.g., ^X!appres
	XTerm

+ modify preamble settings for majormodes of the form "#!path" to make
  them more distinct.

X11 changes:

+ add lxvile wrapper for xvile, which chooses a font based on locale
  setting

+ add uxvile script, based on uxterm.

+ vilemenu.rc lists fonts used in uxterm for the set of ordinary fonts
  if the $term-encoding is utf-8.

+ vilemenu.rc is scriptable; use this to work with the --disable-shell
  configuration by omitting menu entries which use shell features.

+ vilemenu.rc provides a default-font entry, to restore the font to
  whatever was given in a -fn option, or resource setting.

+ XVile.ad now matches Debian package.

+ handle XA_COMPOUND_TEXT and XA_UTF8_STRING selection types.

+ use Xutf8LookupString for input of UTF-8 key-events, if available.

+ RPM spec file configures xvile to provide menu support.

+ RPM spec file now installs uxvile.

Win32 changes:

+ winvile supports Unicode select/paste.

+ modify winvile installer to optionally refrain from putting the newly
  installed directories first in $VILE_STARTUP_PATH, etc., if they
  already exist in the given path.  That allows one to have vile.rc in
  the first path, e.g.,

	c:\vile;c:\program files\vi like emacs

+ winvile "-i" option now saves the original command string, so
  filenames with embedded blanks now longer need quotes.

+ change Inno Setup script to install html files rather than doc files
  for documentation; added a shortcut to the table of contents.

+ UNC-paths are recognized with Cygwin.

+ modify configure script, etc., to build "minvile" and "convile"
  flavors using MinGW.

+ implement quick-launch rule in winvile.iss script.

+ DJGPP version provides syntax highlighting.

+ borland.c (used for DJGPP) now tabuluates the shift/control/alt
  flavors of cursor- and function-keys, defining function keys up to
  48.

Terminal drivers:

+ ansi driver supports color syntax highlighting.

+ curses driver supports color-schemes.

+ improve configuration/initialization of curses-driver to ensure that
  no attempt is made to display UTF-8 using 8-bit curses.

+ modeline formatting supports UTF-8 filenames.

+ xterm-fkeys improvement:

  + checks for existence of shifted cursor- and editing-keys when the
    unshifted keys do not use CSI format.

  + recognizes either form of CSI

+ use xterm patch #251 feature for saving/restoring title in termcap
  and curses drivers.

Other portability:

+ add configure check for utf8 library, needed for some platforms to
  use iconv library.

+ add configure check for SIGWINCH, to fix resizing on OS X

+ optionally use rpath feature to simplify linking against libraries in
  nonstandard locations.

+ use pkg-config for X libraries, if available.

+ encryption feature works with 64-bit platforms.

Performance:

+ improve performance for show-variables and describe-bindings.

+ improve performance for displaying syntax highlighting of very long
  lines by using a fast check on the left/right limits of single-line
  regions that could be displayed, and ignoring attributed regions past
  those bounds.

+ improve performance of on-the-fly UTF-8 regular expressions by
  inlining and making checks to see if a byte is ASCII before doing
  conversions.