From: vincentdarley@my-deja.com
Subject: ANN: AlphaTk version 7.3a6
Date: 7 Sep 1999 21:17:31 -0700

What is AlphaTk?

AlphaTk is a text editor.  It's most useful for programmers, those
writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents, and for editing of HTML source
files.  It has very rich features to aid in writing and editing files
of those document types.  The programming languages strongly supported
are C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab.  Most other common languages are
also supported, although perhaps not with quite such a rich feature
set.

AlphaTk is written entirely in Tcl, the scripting and gui language
developed by John Ousterhout (now at www.scriptics.com).  This means
it is easily extendable, configurable etc.  Most aspects of its
behaviour can be configured using various 'Preferences' dialogs.  If
you can program in Tcl you can tweak it in any way you like.  However
it is designed to be used by people who cannot program in Tcl.

AlphaTk is a little like emacs, in that it is a very powerful text
editor. However it was designed with a graphical interface in mind (for
many years Alpha was a MacOS only product written in C. This is
effectively a re-implementation of Alpha by emulating its inner
functionality in plain Tcl).

New releases will be made as frequently as is necessary to keep up with
bug reports and feature requests. Bug fixes and code contributions are
much appreciated.

The ftp site for AlphaTk is <ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/>;

Recent changes follow:

7.3a6 - released.

Better handling of native and non-native paths on Windows.
Much better forward/backward word functionality (using Mode-dependent
definitions of words as in Alpha on MacOS).  Syntax colouring of
windows now works pretty perfectly, apart from the speed.
Better window splitting (including via mouse), and more robust
cleanup of Window information after manual destruction (destroy rather
than using AlphaTk's menus or gui).  killWindow now only ever called
once per window.  Flag showFullPathsInWindowTitles now available
in Window prefs dialog.  Use native colours more effectively now.
Much better double-click word selection in window.  Better support
for password dialogs.

7.3a5 - released.

Some fixes for Unix.  Focus changes seem to have caused some
minor problems on windows in Tk 8.2.0 which I've fixed.
regModeKeywords works with -a and other colours too.
spacesToTabs and vice-versa implemented.
Other minor fixes.

7.3a4 - released.

Minimisation/maximisation of menubar does same to all other windows.
Various minor fixes.


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