Version 0.4

Main Improvements:  - Added support for all inputs in a form (file, textarea, multi-options)  - Improved searching capabilities: Added the possibility to customize the     search engine, added :Dictionary and :Thesaurus commands. The searching     commands can now have no arguments, taking the word under the cursor, or      the visaully select words as arguments, instead (Thanks to Aditya Mahajan     for the ideas)  - The browser buffer is now non-modifiable by default. It becomes     modifiable only when changing form input values (again thanks to Aditya     Mahajan)  - Added the possibility to save inline images to a file  - Removed the dependence on HTML-Format. The only dependency that remains     for formatting is HTML::TreeBuilder (which is more widely available).  - There is no longer need to patch HTML::TreeBuilder to view encodings     correctly.  - I think vimbrowse.pl finally works on windows (didn't test, though). Some     environment variables might need to be set.  - Various other features and bug fixes - see the ChangeLog for details

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+* Version 0.4
+
+Main Improvements:
+	- Improved and added searching commands: Added a special bookmarks 
+	  file, _search, and commands :Search, :SearchUsing and :Keyword using 
+	  it.
+	- Encoding displayed correctly, without need to patch the (system 
+	  wide) HTML::TreeBuilder.
+	- Removed dependence of the HTML-Format bundle (now depends only on 
+	  HTML-Tree).
+	- The browser pages are not modifiable by default. This is safer, and 
+	  looks much better with the conceal patch.
+	- All input types are now supported (added file, textarea, and option 
+	  with "multiple" attribute).
+	- Added the possibility to save inline images.
+
+Main code changes:
+	- HTML::FormatText::Vim no longer depends on HTML::FormatText and on 
+	  HTML::Formatter. The only dependancy is HTML::TreeBuilder (which is 
+	  also a pre-requisit for HTML::Formatter), which appears to be much 
+	  more widely available. The full explanation is in the 
+	  HTML::FormatText::Vim pod.
+	- Using a tiny derived class of HTML::TreeBuilder, 
+	  HTML::TreeBuilder::Encode, to solve the encoding problems. This 
+	  class is defined in HTML::FormatText::Vim.
+	- VIM::Browser changes: moved much of the handling of fetching a new 
+	  page from the page class to the main package (VIM::Browser). The 
+	  %FORMAT hash now contains only formatting routines.
+
+Other changes:
+	- Added support for some extra tags: nobr, wbr, underline, dfn.
+	- vimbrowse.pl should now finally work on windows.
+	- :Reload now works correctly and prompts in case the page is a result 
+	  of posting a form.
+	- removed the few function descriptions that were available in the 
+	  documentation.
+	- The 'c' flag in the guioptions is taken into account, whenever 
+	  possible.
+	- Lots of bug fixes
+
 * Version 0.3.1
 
 Bug fix:

INSTALL

@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ Installation of the browser.vim plugin
 
 1. Requirements
 
-This plugin is mostly written in perl, so you need a perl-enable vim version  
-to use it. In addition, the perl modules HTML::FormatText, LWP::UserAgent and 
+This plugin is mostly written in perl, so you need a perl-enabled vim version  
+to use it. In addition, the perl modules HTML::TreeBuilder, LWP::UserAgent and 
 URI from cpan are required.  One way to install these modules is by running:
 
     cpan LWP::UserAgent
 
 etc. Most linux distribution provide their own way of installing perl 
 modules. The corresponding packages should be named something like 
-HTML-Format, libwww-perl and URI.
+HTML-Tree, libwww-perl and URI.
 
 The plugin was tested on linux, with vim 6.3 and perl 5.8.4.
 

README.encoding

@@ -16,25 +16,11 @@ various encodings.
 
 4. If you see stuff like „ instead of actual characters, you need to 
    re-install HTML::Parser. When installing it, answer 'y' to the question 
-   about unicode entities (If you happen to be using gentoo linux, you can 
-   find a modified ebuild that does it on gentoo bugzilla).
-
-5. If things are still not displayed correctly, it might be because of a bug 
-   somewhere between HTML::Parser and perl. People seem to be aware of it, so 
-   one day it will probably be fixed. Meanwhile, there is a workaround, but 
-   it involves editing HTML::TreeBuilder: First, find its location. You can 
-   do it by running
-
-     perl -MHTML::TreeBuilder -e 'warn $INC{"HTML/TreeBuilder.pm"}'
-
-   Edit that file, find the 'sub text {', and then the first line where 
-   '$text' appears (in my version, which is 3.13, this is line 984).  
-   Immediately after that line, add the following two lines:
-
-    use Encode;
-    $text = decode_utf8($text);
-
-   This should make all problems disappear.
+   about unicode entities
+
+Remark: It is no longer necessary to make any modification to 
+HTML::TreeBuilder, as it is now dealt with internally (But that bug may 
+affect other applications using this module).
 
 If you still see any encoding problems (as well as other problems), please 
 send them to me, with the page where it happened.

bin/vimbrowse.pl

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env perl
 # File Name: vimbrowse.pl
 # Maintainer: Moshe Kaminsky <kaminsky@math.huji.ac.il>
-# Last Update: September 17, 2004
+# Last Update: September 26, 2004
 ###########################################################
 
 use warnings;
@@ -10,14 +10,21 @@
 use File::Spec::Functions;
 
 BEGIN {
-    our $VERSION = 0.3;
+
+    our $VERSION = 0.4;
+    sub broken { $^O eq 'MSWin32' } 
+
     # Don't know where to look for gvim on windows - let's try the PATH
-    our $VIM = $^O eq 'MSWin32' ? 'gvim' : '/usr/bin/gvim';
+    our $VIM = broken() ? 'gvim' : '/usr/bin/gvim';
     $VIM = $ENV{'VIMBIN'} if $ENV{'VIMBIN'};
     # for some reason, gvim on windows doesn't like stdout, so we use vim 
     # instead of gvim to get the serverlist, which we assume to be in the 
     # same directory as gvim
-    our $SERVERLIST = catfile(dirname($VIM), 'vim') . ' --serverlist';
+    my $vimdir = dirname($VIM);
+    my @vimpath = qw(vim);
+    unshift @vimpath, $vimdir unless $vimdir eq curdir;
+    our $SERVERLIST = catfile(@vimpath) . ' --serverlist';
+    $VIM = 'start ' . $VIM if broken();
     our $HOMEPAGE = $ENV{'HOMEPAGE'} || 'http://vim.sf.net/';
     our $SERVERNAME = 'VIMBROWSER';
 
@@ -80,15 +87,17 @@ sub sys {
 
 my $VimCmd = "$VIM --servername $ServerName --remote-send";
 
-sys("$VimCmd ':set $VimOpts<CR>'") if $VimOpts; 
+# windows doesn't like single quotes. *sigh*
+my $q = broken() ? '"' : "'";
+sys("$VimCmd $q:set $VimOpts<CR>$q") if $VimOpts; 
 
 exit unless @ARGV;
 
-sys("$VimCmd ':$BrowseFirstCmd " . shift(@ARGV) . "$ExtraFirst<CR>'");
+sys("$VimCmd $q:$BrowseFirstCmd " . shift(@ARGV) . "$ExtraFirst<CR>$q");
 
 foreach ( @ARGV ) {
     sleep 1;
-    sys("$VimCmd ':$SplitCmd $_<CR>'");
+    sys("$VimCmd $q:$SplitCmd $_<CR>$q");
 }
 
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