I am starting to port some of the more interesting epic5 features back
to epic4, rather than letting them languish in obscurity. Here is a
list of things that have already been back-ported:
$fskip(), $fseek(), $frewind(), $ferror(), $isfilevalid()
-- File manipulation functions. Should be self explanatory
You can unset environment variables with /setenv -NAME
The looper has been given sub-second resolution. This affects timers,
which now can support fractional seconds and are also highly accurate.
No more fudging on when timers go off! /Pause <sec> also is highly
accurate since it uses timers, as are things like auto-rejoin.
The "redirect sink" allows you to redirect output of a command to the
epic equivalent of /dev/null. Just /redirect 0 COMMAND
This is very useful for those who want to do /redirect 0 whois
and only hook the numerics they want to see, and want to know the rest
of the numerics won't be displayed.
The /flush command now uses the redirect sink instead of blithely throwing
away perfectly good data from the server. /FLUSH is now safe to use.
Resizable wserv support -- each of your screens may now be a different size
than your main screen and you can resize them whenever and however you wish!
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< IMPORTANT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
There is now a new highlight attribute renderer. It is a "true renderer"
because it actually displays things like you say, rather than having
hidden gotchas that you have to compensate for. The #1 most common issue
that will bite people is that turning on color no longer turns off other
attributes (like bold, and reverse). If you turn on color when bold and
reverse are in effect *they continue to be in effect through the color
change*. This may make some people's status bars invert their color
scheme. You can either turn off reverse before you change colors (which
is what you really mean anyways) or you can /set reverse_status_line off.
Turning off bold doesn't turn off color and reverse and what not. It only
turns off bold. Only the ALL_OFF (^O) character turns everything off now.
The color rendering stuff is not backwards compatable and will require some
adjustments and for that I apologize, but I have talked to many people and
they all pretty much were in agreement that the benefits from having your
attributes actually render like you say, instead of you using trial and error
to get what you want, outweighs the inconvenience of having to switch.
The new highlight attribute renderer is NOT YET COMMITED to cvs -- I will
be doing that after a bit more testing. But i wanted to warn you all that
it is coming so you will not be caught unawares.
Thanks.
Jeremy
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