First experimental (5.x) version for public review

Hi to all. I've released an experimental version of Minimum Profit 5.x:

 http://www.triptico.com/download/mp-4.99.6.tar.gz

The following is copied from the RELEASE_NOTES file.

Minimum Profit 5.x Release Notes
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4.99.6
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This is an EXPERIMENTAL version for evaluation purposes only. There are
many things that aren't implemented, others fail miserably and many more
do it incorrectly. Basically, what is known to work is:

 * Basic text editing fully works. I've been using it for six months or so
   to maintain itself, and there has not been a crash in three months,
   more or less.
 * Scripting works fine (90% of Minimum Profit 5.x itself is implemented
   in MPSL, its internal scripting language).
 * Undo works fine. It's bound to ctrl-z.
 * Works cleanly in an UTF-8 environment.

I do development on the GTK version, so it's where it works best. The
curses version lacks many of the interface (alerts, confirmations,
asking for text, etc.), so it's barely usable. The win32 version seem
to work, but it needs to be manually installed and probably need some
tweaking.

What it doesn't work:

 * The dialogs to open or save a file by its name aren't implemented.
   There are workarounds for this: files can be opened from the command
   line and save works correctly if the edited file has a name. Also,
   files can be opened by hitting ctrl-f1 (execute script code) and
   typing:

	mp.open("file-to-be-opened");

 * There is no menu.
 * No ispell support.
 * No password protected files.
 * No grep.
 * No external commands (so no support for help, tags, etc.).
 * Some movement commands as moving a word left, moving to matching
   brackets, etc. are still not implemented.
 * Only a few syntax highlight definitions are implemented.
 * Many other things I cannot remember.

Documentation is still scarce: the more interesting bits are inside the
mpsl/doc directory. This is where the scripting language is documented,
with some basic overviews and implementation notes (there is even an
embryo of a PostScript quick reference guide).

Customizing can be done by writing MPSL commands in the ~/.mp.mpsl file,
which is read on startup.

I have not tried to optimize the internal engine, so it's probably some
magnitudes slower than the 3.x version.

-- 
Angel Ortega
http://www.triptico.com



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