| | 1 | {{{ |
| | 2 | The BarnOwl Developers are pleased to announce the release of BarnOwl |
| | 3 | version 1.3. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | It has been installed in the Athena locker, and you can download it |
| | 6 | from the website [1] or get the source from Github [2]. The full |
| | 7 | Changelog is available online [3], but there are a couple of features |
| | 8 | I am particularly happy to announce: |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | * BarnOwl now supports tab-completion! This includes command names |
| | 11 | themselves, as well as the arguments to most common client, zephyr, |
| | 12 | IRC, and Jabber commands. |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | Currently Zephyr only completes using classes and users it has seen |
| | 15 | messages to/from, so it will take a little while to "spin up" in a |
| | 16 | new BarnOwl. We plan to add reading of Zephyr subscriptions and |
| | 17 | .anyone files soon. |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | Please let us know at <barnowl-dev@mit.edu> if there are other |
| | 20 | commands you would like to see completion implemented for. |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | Thanks to new developer David Benjamin <davidben@mit.edu> for |
| | 23 | writing code to complete many of the barnowl-control commands, |
| | 24 | including completing filter expressions in :filter and :view -d. |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | * The editwin code has been almost completely rewritten. In addition |
| | 27 | to be much cleaner, the new code fixes several small but annoying |
| | 28 | bugs, and implements C-y to yank the result of the last C-k or C-w. |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | [1] http://barnowl.mit.edu/wiki/Download/ |
| | 31 | [2] http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl/ |
| | 32 | [3] http://github.com/nelhage/barnowl/blob/barnowl-1.3/ChangeLog |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | In addition, there are were new features in 1.2, which I failed to |
| | 35 | send an announcement about, that are worth mentioning: |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | * BarnOwl now supports personal messages to arbitrary instances |
| | 38 | better, e.g. 'zwrite nelhage -i barnowl', in both display and in |
| | 39 | the UI for interacting with them. In addition, BarnOwl now |
| | 40 | subscribes you to <message,*,%me> by default so that you can |
| | 41 | receive these messages. |
| | 42 | |
| | 43 | We encourage you to try this feature out and let us know if you |
| | 44 | find useful, and how it could be improved. |
| | 45 | |
| | 46 | Thanks to new developer Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu> for taking |
| | 47 | charge on the planning and almost all of the implementation of this |
| | 48 | feature. |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | * BarnOwl now handles ^C specially and allows it to interrupt some |
| | 51 | long-running operations. In particular, searching a long message |
| | 52 | list, which can take quite a while, can now be aborted using ^C. |
| | 53 | |
| | 54 | * The message list now supports a "mark" and in addition to the |
| | 55 | current point. You can save where you are with Control-Space, move |
| | 56 | somewhere else, and then go back with Control-x Control-x. |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | Great for bouncing back and forth between catching up on a backlog |
| | 59 | of old messages, and reading what's happening now. |
| | 60 | |
| | 61 | Thank you as always for using BarnOwl, and please let us know at |
| | 62 | <barnowl-dev@mit.edu> or on Zephyr on -c barnowl if you have any |
| | 63 | comments, feedback, bug reports, or feature requests. |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | - Nelson Elhage |
| | 66 | for the BarnOwl developers |
| | 67 | }}} |
