🚀 go-pugleaf

There are 3 important components to doing all of this.

1.  Ken Wood's tek-stuff.  As far as I know, it was posted to the net, but
not ftpable from anywhere.  I will put it on cs.uiuc.edu in the usual
place, and arrange for it to be included in the contrib directories in
future releases.  Unfortunately we missed 4.0b1!!.  This does basic
regexp-based highlighting, and is very general.  We use it in program
files, news, mail, etc, etc.

2.  Martin Boyer's stuff, which interfaces with the "things" package and
does lots of neat mouse-based manipulations.  I believe it also works with
the tek-stuff.  This is already in the contrib.

3.  Marc Andressen's stuff which provides regexp-based highlighting.  I'm
not sure if this extend's the tek-stuff, or is an alternate.  This is
currently available from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (which is another machine here
at Illinois).  

I think that now that we have the 4.0 release essentially stabilized, we
will do some work with the authors of these 3 packages to try to unify
these three packages together into a standard way to do all of this.

I've been using Ken Wood's code for a while, and find it very good.  I've
unfortunately been too busy to try the Boyer extensions or Marc's stuff
yet.  Sigh.

Anyway, enjoy.

cheers
Simon.

and, ps, that isn't a typo.  4.0b1 is now available.  If this isn't the
last beta release before 4.0 proper, its REAL close now.  



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