Change Log

4.6.4 released on 21-MAY-2011

The English documentation was proofread and corrected, the service was kindly contributed by Richard Harris.
Text file preview function was added.
The initial working directory for the secondary file panel is now set by a bookmark named DIR2. This replaces the configuration parameter DIR2.
The initial working directory for the primary file panel can be now set by a bookmark named DIR1.
New configuration parameter TIME_DATE controls the display of date and time.
New layout field $g displays the file age.
Changes to the mouse control were made.
The recommendation against using alt-R for normal file renaming was dropped.

Name completion could not complete user and group names containing a dot, comma or a dash character.

A mouse is supported on xterm-compatible terminals.
The location of configuration files has been moved again in order to comply with the XDG Specification. The standard place for these files is from now on the ~/.config/clex directory. Use the cfg-clex utility to move the files to the new location.
There is a new option in the completion panel which allows completion of a name which is a part of a longer word. The option has a self-explaining description: name to be completed starts at the cursor position.
Configuration parameter C_PANEL_SIZE (completion panel size) cannot be set to AUTO (screen size) because this size is often uncomfortably small.
The Unicode soft hyphen character is displayed as a control character.
In the history panel a command separator is automatically inserted into the input line when a command is appended to the end of another command.
Configuration parameters CMD_Fn accept a new control sequence $~ which disables the Press enter to continue prompt. The control is returned to CLEX immediately after the command execution terminates provided that:
- the command has not been modified; and
- the command terminates successfully (exit code zero).
The $! control sequence can appear anywhere in a configuration parameter CMD_Fn, not only at the end.
New function: alt-Z places the current line to the center of the panel. People using cluster-ssh might find it useful.

In the help text there were few UTF-8 characters which are now eliminated because they could not be displayed properly in non-UTF-8 encodings.

New function was added: change into a subdirectory showing the contents in the other file panel (alt-X). This function allows a return into the original directory simply by switching panels (ctrl-X).

A newly added bookmark did not appear on the screen immediately.
A misleading message Ignoring the DIR2 configuration parameter was logged when the DIR2 was set to HOME.

In some cases the cfg-clex utility was generating an unusable template for the copy command (F5).
Under certain circumstances a crash was occurring on exit when CLEX was used over a ssh connection.

All configuration files now reside in the .clex subdirectory. Use the cfg-clex utility to move the files to new location.

Usage of uninitialized memory during the start-up has been corrected. It caused a crash on the Apple Mac OS X platform. Systems where CLEX starts normally are not affected by this bug.
A compilation problem on Apple Mac OS X was fixed.
The xterm title change feature did not work on remote telnet or ssh connections.

If a directory comparison is restricted to regular files, then only information about this type of file is displayed in the summary.
A small program named kbd-test was added. It is a utility for troubleshooting keyboard related problems.

This is the initial release of the CLEX 4 branch. Main new features are:

Unicode support has been added.
Several configuration parameters have been converted to options which are saved automatically.
The log panel and optional logging to a file for auditing and troubleshooting have been added.
The cfg-clex utility for initializing or upgrading settings has been added.
A built-in function for renaming files with invalid or unprintable characters has been added.

Enhancements (compared to previous releases) include: