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A-Shell Development History

Navigation: Version 4.6, builds 699-791

735.2 — 08 June 2000

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1. VUE now looks in the [,0] directory for HLV (>HELP xxxxx) files, after checking [p,pn] and before HLP:

 

2. An additional pair of color definitions was added to the VUECLR= line in INI.CLR to define the color used for the status information displayed while in command mode. If omitted, those lines will used the same colors as the command colors. Note that you can disable all VUE color changes (i.e. leave them the way they were before calling VUE) by setting VUECLR=Y,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1 (in LIB:INI.CLR).

 

3. The VUE ^SE (insert [###] edit number) now obeys the current character insert setting instead of always inserting.

 

4. The VUE ^S^V (fold word) and ^S^Y (fold line) commands now "work" (perhaps even "correctly") when the cursor starts on a non-alphabetic character. Now they operate as if the cursor had actually been on the first alphabetic character on or to the right of the cursor.

 

5. (WINDOWS) Significantly reduce the system load caused by the INFLD timer operation. As an example, the performance of a CPU-bound A-Shell program previously was cut by 50-60% when another window (on the same workstation) was just sitting at a timed INFLD prompt. Now, the CPU-bound job is virtually unaffected by the job in a timed input. Similar results were found in file-intensive applications as well. Note that this change eliminates the need for the ASTAT 2.1(124) update.

 

6. (WINDOWS) The "Default To Half Foreground" option on the Settings.. Colors dialog was swapping the blue, green, yellow, and magenta values.