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jEdit 4.2pre2 is now available from <http://www.jedit.org>. Please test,
there is a lot of new code.

The main focus of this release is a new folding engine that should be
much more efficient. Not only is folding faster, but general display
tasks such as scrolling should be zippier too.

Also, the plugin loader and API has undergone much improvement and
debugging -- it is now stable enough to start porting plugins to.
Developers, please update your plugins -- users will thank you for the
reduced startup time.

There are also a number of new features, such as a kill ring, files in
the favorites list, and a new BeanShell release.

Thanks to Carmine Lucarelli, Matt Albrecht, Ollie Rutherfurd and
Sebastien Pierre for contributing to this release.

{{{ Editing

- "Complete Word" now inserts the longest common prefix if there is more
  than one possible completion (the popup is still displayed as well).

- Added Ignore Case (C+e C+i) and Regular Expressions (C+e C+x) commands
  to Search menu for changing search bar settings from the keyboard.

- Incremental Search Bar and HyperSearch Bar commands now always
  disregard the selection. Use Incremental Search for Word and
  HyperSearch for Word commands if you want to search for the selected
  text.

- Made behavior of auto indent caused by "Insert Tab and Indent",
  "Insert Enter and Indent", and "Indent Selected Lines" commands is
  more consistent.

- Register commands now list registers, and marker commands now list
  markers with shortcuts in the status bar.

- Added Edit->More Clipboard->Paste Deleted (C+e C+y) command. Similar
  to Paste Previous, it lists recently deleted strings.

- Quick copy now works between text areas.

- Paste Previous dialog box now supports multiple selection.

}}}
{{{ File System Browser

- The favorites list can contain files now.

- Added a Utilities->Favorites menu.

- The expansion triangles are now flush with the icon. Previously they
  were vertically aligned which was inconsistent with Swing JTrees.

- Added "Copy Path Name" command to file system browser's right-click
  menu.

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- Updated Inform syntax highlighting (Matt Albrecht).

- Added S+ syntax highlighting (Matt Albrecht).

- Added Io syntax highlighting (Sebastien Pierre).

- Added Pyrex syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

- Added Erlang syntax highlighting (Ollie Rutherfurd).

}}}
{{{ User Interface

- The Global Options dialog box has been rearranged a little. There are
  two new panes, Autosave & Backup, and View. The Loading & Saving pane
  has been removed.

- "Copy" button in Activity Log window now copies entire log if nothing
  is selected.

- Added "Remove All Nodes" button to HyperSearch Results window
  (Carmine Lucarelli).

- Removed "Go to Text Area" (C+e C+e) action. "Scroll to Current Line"
  (C+e C+j) now sends focus to the text area, and also expands the
  current fold if the caret is not visible.

- The block caret is now drawn as a hollow box. Previously it was drawn
  as a filled box using XOR paint mode, but the XOR paint mode caused
  problems on some Java versions and was slightly slower.

- New gutter mouse behavior for brackets:

  C-click on a bracket scope selects the scope.
  A-click on a bracket scope narrows to the scope.

  These were changed to be consistent with the behavior when clicking on
  a fold.

- Previously, jEdit would remember the caret position for the 50 most
  recent files, and the File->Recent Files menu would list the same
  number of entries as the history text field setting. Now, a single
  recent files setting in the General pane of the Global Options
  controls both.

- A change makes the buffer history use a linked list instead of an
  array to store entries. However, since Java provides no way to iterate
  backwards over a linked list, this results in the recent file list
  being stored backward from how it was in previous versions. So when
  upgrading from 4.2pre1 or older, your oldest files will be at the top
  of the list.

}}}
{{{ Plugin Loader

- The plugin manager now loads plugins immediately after they are
  installed if they are using the jEdit 4.2 plugin API, and unloads
  plugins when removing and updating. Note that a restart is still
  required after updating from a jEdit 4.1 version of a plugin to the
  4.2 plugin, but future updates do not require a restart.

- Added an option to Global Options->Plugin Manager to leave the
  downloaded ZIP archives in ~/.jedit/PluginManager.download.

- If a plugin failed to load, its actions, dockables, etc are no longer
  visible from the UI.

}}}
{{{ Scripting Changes

- BeanShell 1.3a1 included. This release features improved error
  reporting, code cleanups and minor bug fixes.

- For some reason the search and replace code was hard-coded to auto
  wrap around if it was run from a macro. I'm not sure what the original
  rationale for this was, but it has been changed to always respect the
  auto wrap flag.

- "Evaluate For Selected Lines" can now be recorded in a macro.

}}}
{{{ Optimizations

- Fold visibility information is now stored in a more efficient manner.
  Folding should be faster and more robust. Also, the limit of 8 text
  areas editing the same buffer has been lifted.

- Various minor display manager optimizations.

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- It was possible to open multiple plugin manager instances from the
  "Plugin Error" dialog box.

- Fixed selection issue when right-clicking on a file system browser
  window.

- The file system browser would report files larger than 1 megabyte as
  being an order of magnitude smaller, eg 13 kilobytes instead of 13
  megabytes.

- Changing the folding mode to "none" did not work correctly.

- Changing from a syntax highlighting mode to text mode did not
  invalidate line contexts.

- The file system browser's "Open in" menu didn't work.

- Toggle menu items did not show up as such when a plugin was
  constructed from the summary cache.

- -nobackground command-line switch did not actually work.

- Title bar "modified" indicator was not displayed for recovered
  autosave files.

- jEdit never closed streams of XML files being read in. This bug has
  been there for ages, however its not too major since the stream
  objects would get garbage collected and closed eventually.

- Fixed incorrect handling of buffer modification flag in undo code.

- No longer print an exception if the clipboard contains a zero-length
  string.

- The file system browser might not have been updated correctly after
  moving a file from one expanded branch to the root.

- Right-clicks in the empty space below the file list should work now.

- Fixed possible NullPointerException on MacOS X in the OperatingSystem
  class.

- Various fixes for dynamic plugin loading.

- Changing the plugin download mirror had no effect on an open plugin
  manager window.

- Fixed popup menu positioning.

- Fixed possible corruption of the undo queue due to a regression in
  pre1.

- Fixed some problems with symbolic links.

- Collapsing a directory in a file system browser threw an exception if
  it was the last item in the list.

- Using C+e C+` shortcut to close dockables didn't work because the view
  would send focus to the text area after C+e was pressed. This was done
  to correctly handle shortcuts like C+e n n while a text field had
  focus (previously "nn" would be inserted in the field). Now, if the
  focus was sent to the text area as a result of a prefix, it is sent
  back to the original owner when the prefix is finished.

- Fixed various file system browser completion problems.

- PHP mode's inline script ruleset was missing a commentEnd property.

- Plugins which provided a dockables.xml file but no actions.xml could
  not be invoked, since the action set was only added if the actions.xml
  file was present.

- Disabled CS+click to narrow to a bracket scope since it didn't
  actually work.

- DynamicMenuUpdate messages only worked for top-level menus.

- TAB didn't work in the action bar if there was nothing entered (it is
  supposed to list all actions.)

- Fixed obscure problem with work thread code where an AWT request added
  from another AWT request could be executed before I/O is complete.

- Fixed repainting problem when removing text from the last line of a
  buffer with soft wrap on.

- Selecting "Search in Directory" from the file system browser's
  Commands menu with a file selected was supposed to set the directory
  search filter to that file's extension, however this didn't work.

- Fix a problem with "Indent Selected Lines" on text like the following:

    if(foo)
        bar();
    if(baz) {
        quux();
    }

- Fixed possible exceptions thrown when the buffer is narrowed to a
  range, and with the caret outside this range.

- Action bar's action list wasn't updated if plugins were added or
  removed at runtime.

}}}
{{{ API Additions

- Added a new dynamic menu API, so that plugins using the 4.2 plugin API
  can provide dynamic menus. Simply write an implementation of
  org.gjt.sp.jedit.menu.DynamicMenuProvider

- EditPlugin.start() is always called from the AWT thread now.

- Added a method to bsh.NameSpace:

  addCommandPath(String path, Class clas)

  You can call this on BeanShell.getNameSpace(). BeanShell will search
  for resources named path + methodName + ".bsh" in the class loader of
  the given class when an undeclared method is invoked. Plugins can use
  this to provide additional scripting commands, the Console plugin uses
  this for example.

- Added a new method to TextAreaExtension class:

  public void paintScreenLineRange(Graphics2D gfx, int firstLine,
    int lastLine, int[] physicalLines, int[] start, int[] end,
    int y, int lineHeight)

  This method paints a whole bunch of lines at once, instead of one at a
  time, so it should be more efficient for plugins like Background and
  ErrorList.

  See javadoc for parameter documentation.

- Added long-missing DefaultInputHandler.removeKeyBinding() method.

- Added AbstractOptionPane.addComponent(Component comp, int fill)
  method.

- Virtual file systems can now show arbitriary columns in the file
  system browser.

  - Use the VFS constructor that accepts a String[] of extended
    attribute names. You can use the canned names (EA_TYPE, EA_STATUS,
    EA_SIZE, EA_MODIFIED) or add your own. If you add your own, you
    must also define properties "vfs.browser.<extended attribute name>".

  - Then, write a VFS.DirectoryEntry subclass that overrides
    getExtendedAttribute(). Return instances of this class in
    _getDirectoryEntry() and _listDirectory().

}}}
-- 
Slava Pestov

Greetings jEdit users-

This morning, I uploaded the latest batch of plugins to Plugin Central.
This batch of eight was built and tested by Slava Pestov and consists of
six plugins for jEdit 4.1 (FastOpen, JExplorer, LaTeXTools, LogViewer,
XmlIndenter, and XSLT) and two for jEdit 4.2 (CharacterMap and
SendBuffer).

* CharacterMap 1.1.1: updated for jEdit 4.2 APIs; requires jEdit 4.2pre1
  and JDK 1.3

* FastOpen 0.8: FastOpen now remembers file search patterns you had
  entered previously & allows easy access to them by using Ctrl+Up or
  Ctrl+Down arrow to traverse between them for re-run of previous
  searches; FastOpen can now also show/switch between "non-project open
  files" & also supports color coding of such files for Visual
  identification; you can now use the "Jump to file" feature also by
  placing the cursor on a filename besides the usual 0.7 way of
  selecting the text & invoking FastOpen on it; the text color in the
  pattern box now default to that of jEdit's textarea; requires jEdit
  4.1final, ProjectViewer 2.0.0, and JDK 1.3

* JExplorer 0.2: initial Plugin Central release; requires jEdit
  4.1final, ProjectViewer 2.0.0, ErrorList 1.2.3, and JDK 1.3

* LaTeXTools 0.2.0: implemented SideKick API - LaTeX document structure
  displayed in the SideKick Structure Browser; customisable multiple
  parsers are available as before, and are accessed via a separate
  (dockable) pane (a default parser is displayed if the Navigation pane
  is not required; BibTeX and Cross-reference dockable panes are still
  available); some macros are also built in, and are accessible via the
  menu; requires jEdit 4.1final, SideKick 0.2, and JDK 1.3

* LogViewer 0.1: initial Plugin Central release; requires jEdit 4.0final
  and JDK 1.3

* SendBuffer 1.0.3: updated for jEdit 4.2 APIs; requires jEdit 4.2pre1
  and JDK 1.3

* XmlIndenter 0.1.2: initial Plugin Central release; a new plugin that
  contains the XML indent functionality that was formerly included in
  the XSLT plugin; fixed various indenting bugs, relating to: CDATA,
  xsl:text, '>' or line separation characters in attribute values, and
  repeating '/' chars in empty elements; XML comments no longer placed
  on new lines when indenting; requires jEdit 4.1final, XML 0.11.1, and
  JDK 1.3

* XSLT 0.5.1: moved indent functionality into the new separate XML
  Indenter plugin; displays a dialog explaining how to put XML library
  jars in a endorsed directory to fix problems running under the old
  Xalan jar included in JDK 1.4; keeps history of recently executed
  XPath expressions; can open files for editing directly from the XSLT
  Processor window; transformation result is written directly to file;
  the result file is opened in a new buffer, or reloaded if already
  opened; cleaned up the plugin's properties file and simplified
  property names; requires jEdit 4.1final, XML 0.11.1, and JDK 1.3;
  includes xalan.jar from Xalan 2.5.0

-md

Hello jEdit users-

This evening, I have released the latest batch of plugins to Plugin
Central. As explained in a message I just sent to jEdit-devel
<," rel="nofollow">http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jedit-devel&m=105237459523568&w=2>,
this is the last batch that I will be doing on my own. In fact, after
doing just the releasing for the next few batches (not the building), I
will no longer be involved in the release process at all (except for my
own plugins). I wish the best of luck to whoever ends up taking over
once things settle down.

This batch consists of 12 plugins, 6 of which are jEdit-4.0 compatible
(PMDPlugin, JUnitPlugin, SourceControl, JSwatPlugin, HeadlinePlugin, and
CommonControls). All of these plugins work under jEdit 4.1. Some of the
plugins in my queue were not included in this batch. Those plugins are
listed in the linked message to jEdit-devel and should appear in the
next batch if all goes well.

* AntFarm 1.3.1: fixed bug #711270: clicking tree in AntFarm 1.3 not
  selecting build file; requires jEdit 4.1final, CommonControls 0.7,
  Console 3.4, ErrorList 1.2.3, XML 0.11, and JDK 1.3 CommonControls
  0.8: fixed NPE on autoresizing HelpfulJTable; autoresizing no longer
  necessarily means no manual resizing; column headers can participate
  in autoresizing; requires jEdit 4.0 and JDK 1.3 

* Console 3.5: any text selected in the text area is now passed to the
  command on standard input; the full traceback is now printed for
  BeanShell exceptions; the entering directory and leaving directory
  messages generated by the make tool are now recognized and correctly
  handled for error parsing purposes; the Console menu was broken with
  jEdit 4.1pre11 and jEdit 4.1final; tool bars are no longer added to
  plain views; added a workaround for the Java bug where commands
  specifying a relative path name would be resolved relative to the
  directory from which jEdit was started, not the console's current
  directory; starting a background process using & at the end of the
  command line would start the spinning animation, and never stop it;
  %browse no longer shows an error message; %browse now accepts a
  --new-window parameter (or -n) which opens a new floating file system
  browser instance; requires jEdit 4.1final, ErrorList 1.2, and JDK 1.3 

* Docker 0.2: dock auto-hiding is disabled by default; auto-hide
  overrides can now be removed; requires jEdit 4.1final, CommonControls
  0.7, and JDK 1.3

* HeadlinePlugin 1.0.4: Refresh button changes to Cancel during a
  refresh; fixed bug where adding a new feed would corrupt the config
  file if the feed description was missing or empty; improved error
  trapping when adding a new feed; made saving XML data a two-stage
  process so it won't corrupt the config file; changed save
  implementation so that it doesn't attempt to use the JAXP XSLT; fixed
  a bug that would prevent cache files from saving and the option dialog
  to look odd if tabs and carriage returns/line feeds were used in the
  <name> or <description> elements in the feeds.xml configuration file;
  fixed max description length for HTML in the feed when "Remove HTML
  Tags" option is unchecked; fixed bug with next/previous (it was
  starting and then stopping the refresh thread immediately); added some
  logging to the jEdit activity log; requires jEdit 4.0.3, InfoViewer
  1.0, and JDK 1.4 

* IncludesParser 0.4: fixed parsing error with single character prefix;
  requires jEdit 4.1final and JDK 1.3 JSwatPlugin 1.3.1: repackaged
  version 1.3 to correct NullPointerException caused by missing GIF
  resources; requires jEdit 4.0pre7 and JDK 1.4; includes JSwat 2.14 

* JUnitPlugin 0.0.2: changed all text from 'jUnit' to 'JUnit'; progress
  bar is now displayed at all times; added stop button; plugin fails
  more gracefully when a NoClassDefFoundError is encountered while
  running a test (Thanks to Peter Wilkins for the debugging help);
  requires jEdit 4.0final, CommonControls 0.2, and JDK 1.3; includes
  JUnit 3.8.1 

* PMDPlugin 2.0: integrated a copy/paste detector; updated to use PMD
  1.05; requires jEdit 4.0final, ErrorList 1.2, and JDK 1.3; include PMD
  1.05, Saxpath 1.0, and Jaxen 1.0

* SourceControl 0.5: added JDiff diffing; added username and password
  management for VSS projects; extended SourceControl Interface now
  includes get file operation; requires jEdit 4.0final, JDiff 1.3, and
  JDK 1.3 

* SQL 0.97: each ProjectViewer project now has its own set of server
  connections (BE CAREFUL: All previous settings are lost - you'll have
  to recreate your database connections, etc. The JDBC classpath and all
  other params are global now - except for per-project database
  connections); added widgets for preprocessors to the SQL toolbar;
  added action to choose the connection to the menu; multiple statement
  batches are now supported with the separate result sets shown in their
  own tabs; timing information for queries is printed to the Activity
  Log; miscellaneous bug fixes; requires jEdit 4.1final, CommonControls
  0.8, ProjectViewer 2.0.1, XML 0.8.1, and JDK 1.4

* XSearch 0.9: added search settings history; added hyper replace; added
  silent search; added quick-xfind, quick-hypersearch, and
  quick-allbuffersearch menu actions; updated user guide; requires jEdit
  4.1final and JDK 1.3

-md

jEdit 4.2pre1 is now available from <http://www.jedit.org>. Please test,
there is a lot of new code.

I implemented a lot of user's feature requests; if your favorite feature
didn't make it, don't despair, it might be in pre2 :-)

The main focus of this release, though, was rewriting the text area
display code -- scrolling should be smoother, soft wrap should be
faster, and folding and narrowing should be faster too. There are more
optimizations to come in pre2.

4.2pre1 also features a new plugin loader and API; some aspects are not
yet finished, so not all plugins can be ported yet. Note that most
plugins using the old API continue to work.

See <" rel="nofollow">http://www.jedit.org/42docs/news42/index.html> for API porting
information (this guide can also be found in the jEdit download).

Thanks to Bill McMilleon, Kasper Graversen, Kris Kopicki,
Oliver Rutherfurd, Rudi Widmann and Ryan Grove for contributing to this
release.

{{{ Editing

- Quick copy now more consistent with usual mouse behavior:

  - Control-middle-clicking on a bracket will insert the contents of the
    bracketed block at the caret position.

  - Shift-middle-clicking at a point will insert text from the caret to
    the point at the caret position. Can be used to duplicate a line,
    for example.

- Register contents are now saved across editing sessions in
  ~/.jedit/registers.xml.

- Complete Word popup now has keyboard shortcuts (1 - 0) for inserting
  the first 10 elements in the list.

- Entering a prefix while a JTextComponent has focus will move focus to
  the text area. This allows shortcuts like C+e n n to be used from the
  search bar and such without having to prefix them with C+e C+e first.

- Control-Shift-click on a bracket scope in the gutter or a bracket in
  the text area narrows to that scope.

- Previously setting the wrap margin to zero with soft wrap on would
  wrap to the width of the text area. This is no longer supported.

- The text area now scrolls by screen lines, not by physical lines, when
  soft wrap is enabled. The previous behavior resulted in simpler code
  but was extremely counter-intuitive.

- Right-clicking in the text area with no selection (or if multiple
  selection mode is enabled) moves the caret to the clicked line before
  displaying the popup menu (Rudi Widmann).

- Control-clicking beyond the end of a line inserts the appropriate
  amount of white space and moves the caret there (Rudi Widmann).

}}}
{{{ Rectangular Selection

- Edit->More Selection->Rectangular Selection (A+\) enables rectangular
  selection mode:

  - Dragging with the mouse or using keyboard selection commands creates
    rectangular selections.

  - A status bar indicator has been added for this mode.

  - Clicking beyond the end of the line inserts the appropriate amount
    of white space and moves the caret there (just like when Control is
    held down, see above).

- Changed vertical paste behavior. Now if the rectangle we are inserting
  into has more lines than the pasted text, the pasted text cycles
  through the rectangle. Previously, it would be inserted at the top
  with the remaining lines blank. The new behavior is very convinient;
  for example, you can select a zero-width rectangle and paste "final"
  to mark a set of variables in Java source as being final.

- Entering text while a zero-width rectangular selection is active now
  shifts the selection horizontally.

}}}
{{{ Syntax Highlighting

- A new default color scheme.

- Added a few more token types: COMMENT3, COMMENT4, LITERAL3, LITERAL4,
  KEYWORD4.

- AT_LINE_START, AT_WORD_START and AT_WHITESPACE_END attributes can now
  be set independently for BEGIN and END tags of a SPAN.

- The default background color of a token is now the background color of
  the current ruleset's default token type. It now only defaults to the
  text area background if the ruleset's default token type does not have
  a background color. This matters because for example if COMMENT2 has a
  background but MARKUP does not, HTML markup in Javadocs now has the
  same background as the rest of the comment.

- Any groups matched by a SPAN_REGEXP's BEGIN sequence are substituted
  into any positional parameters in the END sequence. This allows
  read-ins to be properly handled in languages like Shell Script, PHP,
  and Perl.

- Added NO_ESCAPE attribute to SPAN and SPAN_REGEXP rules. This allows
  C# literals (@"...") to be highlighted correctly.

- Added JCL and SAS syntax highlighting (Bill McMilleon).

- Improved C pre-processor syntax highlighting.

- Updated NSIS2 syntax highlighting (Ryan Grove).

- Parrot syntax highlighting (Oliver Rutherfurd).

- Aspect-J syntax highlighting (Kasper Graversen).

}}}
{{{ Folding

- Different syntax styles are used for collapsed fold lines with
  different fold levels. Fold levels 1, 2 and 3 have distinct styles,
  and all higher levels are assigned another style.

- Alt-clicking on a fold triangle in the gutter narrows to that fold.

}}}
{{{ Action Bar

- Utilities->Action Bar (shortcut C+ENTER) shows the action bar, for
  quickly invoking editor commands and changing settings from the
  keyboard.

- Enter an action name (or a substring) to invoke that action.

- Press TAB for a completion popup.

- Enter a repeat count then invoke an action using any means to repeat
  that action.

- Enter "buffer.<prop>=<value>" to set the buffer-local property
  <prop> to <value>; for example, "buffer.tabSize=4" changes the
  curent buffer's tab size to 4.

- Enter "!buffer.<prop>=<value>" to set a buffer property on a global
  basis; for example, "!buffer.tabSize=4" changes the default tab size
  for all buffers to 4.

- Buffer-local properties are documented in the user's guide.

- Enter "<prop>=<value>" to set any other global property; for
  example, "view.showToolbar=false" hides the tool bar.

- Note that global property names are undocumented, so this feature is
  primarily for plugin developers. You can get a list using the
  Misc->Properties->jEdit Properties macro.

}}}
{{{ File System Browser

- The file system view now shows file attributes such as type, status,
  size and modification date.

- Re-added "Filter in file dialogs is current buffer extension" option
  that used to be present in jEdit 4.0.

- Added "Show menu bar" option.

- Improved completion in file dialogs. Completion in the field is now
  case-insensitive, and the full path is not inserted into the field
  unless you press TAB.

- Added option to make the default directory the working directory of
  the jEdit process.

}}}
{{{ User Interface

- If regular expressions are enabled, Search->Find Previous now shows a
  dialog box message instead of silently searching forwards.

- Added an option to Appearance option pane to control menu spillover
  (default is 20 items).

- The title bar now indicates if the current buffer has been modified
  since the last save.

- Moved plugin option panes to a new Plugins->Plugin Options dialog box.

- Improved window docking.

  - Floating windows now have a bar across the top with a menu for
    docking the window.

  - Right-clicking on a docked window button shows a menu for undocking
    the window, opening a cloned instance, and moving it to another
    docking area.

  - Docking pane of Global Options dialog box removed because it is no
    longer necessary.

- Added Utilities->Repeat Last Action command, bound to C+SPACE.

- jEdit now remembers if more than one view was open, and if the view
  was split.

}}}
{{{ Miscellaneous

- Symbolic links are no longer resolved in buffer path names. Opening
  two buffers both pointing to the same file on disk is still not
  allowed.

- If buffers have changed on disk, instead of asking for each one, they
  are all listed in a single dialog box. Also, if the buffer is not
  dirty, it is reloaded automatically.

}}}
{{{ Command Line

- Added a few new command line parameters, documented in jedit -usage:

  -gui
  -newplainview
  -newview
  -nobackground
  -plugins
  -quit
  -restore
  -reuseview
  -startupscripts
  -wait

}}}
{{{ Optimizations

- New "deferred loading" plugin API. Plugins must be updated for this,
  however existing plugins continue to work (with no performance
  improvement). jEdit's startup time remains constant (+/- some
  milliseconds) regardless of how many plugins using the new API are
  installed.

- Faster buffer loading.

- Faster activity log.

- Bracket matching is now only performed 200ms after the last caret
  movement. This should solve the problem of annoyingly slow response
  when eg, inserting a number of characters before an unclosed bracket
  near the beginning of a large source file.

- Bracket matching now only scans up to 10,000 lines.

- Consecutive "chunks" with the same style attributes were previously
  merged when a line was being painted, for improved performance. Now we
  take this one step further and merge them when putting a line's chunk
  list in the cache. This should improve scrolling performance,
  especially when smooth text is on.

- jEdit now performs much better when very long lines are present in a
  buffer.

- A funky little display optimization with monospaced fonts is now
  performed. In jEdit 4.1 this could be enabled with a hidden property,
  but now we detect if a monospaced font is actually in use. If this
  causes display problems, please let me know about it and put this in a
  startup script:

  Debug.DISABLE_MONOSPACE_HACK = true;

- Faster line insertion and removal when there are collapsed folds below
  the insertion point.

- Faster painting of tokens with background colors. Previously if tokens
  defined a background color, there was a noticable lag when scrolling
  for example (at least with Java 1.4.1 on Linux). This no longer
  happends.

- Faster buffer transactions if both soft wrap and narrowing is active.

- Faster search and replace where the search or replace string matches
  on multiple lines.

- Dockable window resizing is now done with a "rubber band", instead of
  live updates of the dockable container's size. This improves
  responsiveness of resizing noticably.

- When dragging with the mouse, the text area now autoscroll at a rate
  proportional to how far away the mouse is from the edge of the area.

}}}
{{{ Platform-Specific

- MacOS plugin version 3.0 now requires Java 1.4.1. All native calls now
  use the Cocoa API, and a dock menu has been added. The dock menu
  provides similar functionality to the plugin menu (Kris Kopicki).

- Background mode is now enabled by default on MacOS, since this is the
  platform convention.

- Added compatibility with Java 1.4.2 beta's GTK look and feel. Note
  that the look and feel itself is quite buggy, at least with the 1.4.2
  beta.

- The installer should now work on VMS.

}}}
{{{ Bug Fixes

- jEdit no longer minimizes and then restores windows when files are
  opened through the edit server on windows. This was done to work
  around an apparent bug in the Windows JRE. If you still experience the
  problem, there is a hidden property that can be set with the action
  bar:

  C+ENTER server.brokenToFront=true

- Some HTTP proxies decompress GZip streams for whatever reason. The
  plugin manager now checks if the stream starts with the GZip magic
  characters; if not, it parses it without decompression, instead of
  throwing an exception.

- Multiple monitors should work properly now (Kris Kopicki).

- Selecting "Search in Directory" from the right-click menu of a
  directory in the parent directories list would search in the wrong
  directory.

- Fixed problems with bracket matching not being activated when
  switching between split panes.

- Not all keyboard shortcuts worked in the Complete Word popup.

- Closing a view did not close any cloned dockable windows.

- Page Up/Page Down commands now scroll by the correct amount when soft
  wrap is on.

- Fixed I/O thread deadlock that could manifest when using the FTP
  plugin.

- Fixed initial position of options dialog box divider.

- If the default edit mode had a tab size of 8, and the global default
  was 4, a buffer-local property specifying a tab size of 8 would be
  ignored.

- "Spaces To Tabs" didn't work with non-leading tabs.

- C+e v ENTER and C+e v TAB still did auto indent, instead of inserting
  a literal ENTER and TAB like the documentation says.

- Pressing ENTER with nothing selected in the File->Open dialog box no
  longer closes the dialog box.

- Nested { and } work in globs now.

- Fixed problem with EOL_SPAN delegating to a ruleset with a
  NO_LINE_BREAK rule.

- Fixed horizontal scrolling when creating a rectangular selection in
  virtual space.

- Clicking in the text area before the buffer is loaded no longer throws
  exceptions.

}}}
{{{ API Changes

- You can a detailed guide on what has been broken, and what has been
  added, in doc/news42/index.html.

- The following plugins are known to be broken:

  Background
  Console
  ErrorList
  JDiff
  WhiteSpace
  SideKick
  Templates
  Vimulator
  XML

- Also, a lot of plugins that depend on ErrorList and Console will fail
  to load, even if they are not broken themselves. So don't panic if you
  see a huge list of plugin errors on startup; most of them won't need
  fixing.

}}}
-- 
Slava Pestov