[Bug-moe] GNU Moe 1.9-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU Moe 1.9-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/moe/moe-1.9-rc3.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
cabcbe4e227f8328e448f4bc13352ef8fd9788d1867637a55540b90f354b6664 
moe-1.9-rc3.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find. Code reviews are also welcome.

GNU moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean, console text editor for ISO-8859 and 
ASCII character encodings. It has a modeless, user-friendly interface, 
online help, multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited 
line length, unlimited buffers, global search/replace (on all buffers at 
once), block operations, automatic indentation, word wrapping, file name 
completion, directory browser, duplicate removal from prompt histories, 
delimiter matching, text conversion from/to UTF-8, romanization, etc.

Moe can easily edit thousands of files at once.

Moe uses ISO-8859-15 instead of UTF-8 because an 8-bit character set 
(combined with romanization if needed) can convey meaning safely and 
more efficiently than UTF-8 can.

UTF-8 is a great tool for tasks like writing books of mathematics or 
mixing Greek with Chinese in the same document. But for many other 
everyday computing and communication tasks, an 8-bit code like 
ISO-8859-15 is much more practical, efficient and reliable. There is no 
such thing as an "invalid" or "out of range" ISO-8859-15 character.

UTF-8 is fine for non-parsable, non-searchable documents that must look 
"pretty", but not so fine for things like configuration files or C++ 
source code. UTF-8 greatly hinders parsability (and may even become a 
security risk) by providing multiple similar-looking variations of basic 
alphabetic, punctuation, and quoting characters. UTF-8 also makes search 
difficult and unreliable. For example, searching for a word like "file" 
in an UTF-8 document may fail if the document uses the compound 
character 'fi' instead of the string "fi".

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/moe/moe.html

Changes in this version:

  * The new help key 'C-a' (Control-A) has been added because 'F1' is 
intercepted by some terminal emulators, and 'C-h' is interpreted as 
backspace by others.

  * An 8-bit "C" locale is now used in Cygwin so that ncurses can show 
characters higher than 127.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU Moe author and maintainer.

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