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  62 <h1 class="chapter"> 4. History </h1>
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  64 <p>More about notes-mode than you wanted to know,
  65 and some thanks.
  66 </p>
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  99 <h2 class="section"> 4.1 Notes-mode history </h2>
 100
 101 <p>Briefly,
 102  I started keeping notes on-line shortly after I got a portable computer
 103  in January, 1994.
 104 After a month-and-a-half of notes, I realized that
 105  one does not live by grep alone,
 106  so I started adding indexing facilities.
 107 </p>
 108 <p>In June of 1995
 109  some other Ficus-project members started
 110  keeping and indexing on-line notes
 111  using other home-grown systems.
 112 After some discussion,
 113  we generalized my notes-mode work and
 114  they started using it.
 115 </p>
 116 <p>Over the next 18 months notes-mode grew.
 117 Finally, in April, 1996 I wrote documentation,
 118  guaranteeing that innovation on notes-mode will now cease
 119  or the documentation will become out of date.
 120 </p>
 121
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 141 <h2 class="section"> 4.2 Credits </h2>
 142
 143 <p>I (John Heidemann, &lt;johnh@isi.edu&gt;)
 144  started, documented, and currently maintain notes-mode.
 145 I take ultimate responsibility for the code,
 146  especially for the ugly parts that I won't let others change.
 147 </p>
 148 <p>Ashvin Goel
 149  &lt;ashvin@ficus.cs.ucla.edu&gt;
 150  has been a very enthusiastic notes-mode user and contributor.
 151 He is responsible for at least
 152  the ideas behind <code>notes-summarize-subject</code>
 153 and the ideas and initial implementations of
 154  some of the original generalization and modularity improvements,
 155  <code>notes-follow-next-link</code> and <code>notes-follow-prev-link</code>,
 156  <code>notes-goto-index-entry</code>,
 157  programmed subject completion,
 158  and
 159  context-sensitive mouse-2 handling.
 160 In addition,
 161  he is an invaluable second opinion about
 162  what and how things should be done
 163  (even if I don't always agree with him).
 164 </p>
 165 <p>Geoff Kuenning
 166  &lt;geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu&gt;
 167  has been another enthusiastic notes-mode user and victim.
 168 He is responsible for
 169  finding several bugs,
 170  motivation for mouse-less operation,
 171  comments about the documentation,
 172  the day-of-week convention,
 173  and an initial implementation and the idea of
 174  multiple entries with the same subjects in a single notes-file.
 175 </p>
 176 <p>Ramesh Govindan &lt;govindan@isi.edu&gt; did the xemacs port.
 177 </p>
 178 <p>Since it's release on Usenet in April 1996 several
 179  other folks have contributed.
 180 Thanks to
 181  David Weisman &lt;weisman@app1.osf.org&gt;,
 182  Martin L. Smith &lt;martin@ner.com&gt;,
 183  Jason Bastek &lt;jason@aai.com&gt;,
 184  Ulrich Herbst &lt;Ulrich.Herbst@t-systems.com&gt;.
 185 See the next section (See section <a href="#SEC25">Changes</a>.) for details of their exploits.
 186 </p>
 187 <p>Thanks to Larry Ayers &lt;layers@marktwain.net&gt;
 188  for popularizing notes-mode with reviews in
 189  the Linux Gazette
 190  (at &lt;http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue22/notes-mode.html&gt; and
 191  &lt;http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue35/ayers.html&gt;).
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 212 <h2 class="section"> 4.3 Changes </h2>
 213
 214 <p>For the bored:
 215 </p>
 216 <p>First semi-public release. 12-Jul-95: version 0.1
 217  Shared a version with Ashvin and Geoff.
 218 </p>
 219 <p>Changed  6-Dec-95: version 0.3
 220  Ashvin's changes for note traversal added (C-c C-p and C-c C-n now
 221 move to the prev/next note in note-mode).
 222  URL parsing changed so that &quot;localhost&quot; is optional.
 223 </p>
 224 <p>Changed 19-Dec-95:  version 0.4
 225  More robust prev/next code added, both to handle going back and
 226 forward in the middle of chains through the index file, and to handle
 227 back/forward in a single file.
 228  URL parsing changed so that notes-goto-index-entry correctly handles
 229 lookups on notes names such as &quot;252A&quot;.
 230 </p>
 231 <p>Changed 20-Dec-95: version 0.5.
 232  Fixed a missing variable in notes-url.el.
 233  Added a work-around to a bug in emacs-19.30's define-derived-mode.
 234 </p>
 235 <p>Changed 24-Dec-95: version 0.6.
 236  Prev/next code re-re-written to be more robust.
 237 </p>
 238 <p>Changed 26-Dec-96:  version 0.7.
 239  Bug fix release.
 240 </p>
 241 <p>Changed 23-Jan-96: version 0.8.
 242  Initialization code added to set up a new note.
 243 New variable:  notes-bin-dir.
 244 </p>
 245 <p> I'm skipping version 0.9 because I erroneously release version 0.1
 246 as version 0.9 (only on the web, not on Usenet).
 247 </p>
 248 <p> I'm bumping from version &quot;0&quot; to version &quot;1&quot; since the code is has been
 249 in production use for more than a year by several people.  Minor
 250 numbers are the same.
 251 </p>
 252 <p>Changed 26-Mar-96: version 1.10.
 253  Setup code completely re-written.
 254  Several incompatible changes have been made:
 255  - the lisp and Perl code must be installed via make install,
 256 not by copying.
 257  - some data is specified in a .notesrc file; copy and modify sample.notesrc.
 258  - several internal elisp changes.
 259  - catsubject added (bound to C-cC-s):  collect all notes about the
 260 current subject.
 261  - new notes-files are initialized with fields based on the prior
 262 day's notes; see mknew for details.
 263  - daily_work is gone; mkall is rewritten to use .notesrc.
 264 </p>
 265 <p>Changed 29-Apr-96: version 1.11.
 266  Real documentation.
 267  Mknew caching added.
 268 </p>
 269 <p>Changed  9-Aug-96: version 1.12.
 270  Added notesinit to do all setup for new users.
 271 </p>
 272 <p>Changed 24-Aug-96: version 1.13.
 273  Minor documentation fixes.
 274 </p>
 275 <p>Changed 20-Dec-97: version 1.14.
 276 Autoconf support.
 277 </p>
 278 <p>Fontification of the index buffer is now pre-computed in perl
 279 other than done when the file is needed (in elisp with slow regular
 280 expressions).  2000-line index files are now 1-2 seconds rather than
 281 15-30 on a 100MHz Pentium.  If necessary (the
 282 pre-computed version isn't up-to-date) we fall back on the slower
 283 code.
 284 </p>
 285 <p>Related work improved (suggestion by David Weisman &lt;weisman@app1.osf.org&gt;).
 286 </p>
 287 <p>Documentation improvement (problem found by Martin L. Smith
 288 &lt;martin@ner.com&gt;).
 289 </p>
 290 <p>Installation improved (code by Jason Bastek &lt;jason@aai.com&gt;).
 291 </p>
 292 <p>Bug in notes-index mode with subjects containing colons fixed (johnh).
 293 </p>
 294 <p>Encryption now supports mailcrypt.el.
 295 </p>
 296 <p>Support for emacs 20 (a small font-lock change).
 297 </p>
 298 <p>Changed  5-Jan-98: version 1.15.
 299 Bug in decryption for non-PAM users fixed
 300  (suggestion by Kevin Davidson &lt;tkld@quadstone.com&gt;).
 301 </p>
 302 <p>Y2K statement added
 303  (suggestion by Kevin Davidson &lt;tkld@quadstone.com&gt;).
 304 </p>
 305 <p>Pointer to mailcrypt added (as a supported encryption package).
 306 Problem pointed out by K. Ueda &lt;kueda@jupiter.qse.tohoku.ac.jp&gt;.
 307 </p>
 308 <p>Changed  4-Nov-98: version 1.16.
 309 Bug in kill-ring handling of notes-old-underline-line
 310  fixed by Tim Potter &lt;timp@jna.com.au&gt;.
 311 Bug in whitespace handling after PGP encryption fixed by Tim Potter.
 312 Bugs in handling of entries with hash signs in their name fixed
 313  (found by Tim Potter).
 314 Fontification of index buffer further improved
 315  (mapcar is your friend).
 316 Xemacs support added based on code contributed by Ramesh Govindan.
 317 </p>
 318 <p>Changed 28-Feb-99: version 1.17:
 319 Improvement:  notes-electric-return now fixes up the prev/next links
 320  of new entries (only).  Code contributed by
 321  Takashi Nishimoto.
 322 </p>
 323 <p>Bug fix:  reversed options -batch and -q in configure.in to placate
 324  XEmacs 20.0; changed notesinit to not downcase the pathname
 325  (bugs found by Thierry Bezecourt).
 326 </p>
 327 <p>Clarification: Autofilling of new notes more clear in the manual (hopefully,
 328  suggested by Solofo Ramangalahy).
 329 </p>
 330 <p>Bug fix:  a y2k bug in was found and fixed in mkindex.  Sigh.
 331 </p>
 332 <p>New:  Two mailing lists for notes-mode have been created:
 333 &lsquo;<tt>notes-mode-announce@heidemann.la.ca.us</tt>&rsquo; and
 334 &lsquo;<tt>notes-mode-talk@heidemann.la.ca.us</tt>&rsquo;.
 335 Send the line &ldquo;subscribe notes-mode-announce&rdquo;
 336 (or &ldquo;subscribe notes-mode-talk&rdquo;)
 337 to &lsquo;<tt>majordomo@heidemann.la.ca.us</tt>&rsquo;
 338 to join them.
 339 [<em>These instructions are now superceeded; to subscribe, go to
 340 &lsquo;<tt>http://www.heidemann.la.ca.us/mailman/listinfo/notes-mode-talk</tt>&rsquo;
 341 and
 342 &lsquo;<tt>http://www.heidemann.la.ca.us/mailman/listinfo/notes-mode-announce</tt>&rsquo;.</em>]
 343 </p>
 344 <p>Changed  6-Oct-99: version 1.18:
 345 Bug fix:  handling of electric-prevnext is better when there are
 346  existing prev/next links.
 347 </p>
 348 <p>Clarification: I added some pointers in the code to the installation
 349  instructions.  (Apparently people can't RTF README.)
 350 </p>
 351 <p>Extension: mailcrypt-3.5.x suported including pgp, pgp5 and gpg.
 352 </p>
 353 <p>Changed (date 23-Dec-00): version 1.19:
 354 Bug fix (cosmetic): suppress comments in encrypted nodes.
 355 </p>
 356 <p>Install fixes from Kannan Varadhan: elisp directories changed on install.
 357 </p>
 358 <p>Added C-j as a synonym for RET in notes-mode to parallel C++ or perl mode.
 359 (Suggested by Fred Jaggi &lsquo;<tt>jaggi@rsn.hp.com</tt>&rsquo;.)
 360 </p>
 361 <p>Outline-minor-mode support added and documented.
 362 (Suggested by Tim Carroll &lsquo;<tt>tim@boomboom.com</tt>&rsquo;.)
 363 </p>
 364 <p>Bug/typo fixes in gpg support
 365 (Contributed by William A. Perkins &lsquo;<tt>wa_perkins@pnl.gov</tt>&rsquo;,
 366 with separate patches from Knut Anders Hatlen &lsquo;<tt>kahatlen@online.no</tt>&rsquo;.)
 367 </p>
 368 <p>Installation improvements suggested by Christophe Troestler
 369 &lsquo;<tt>Ch.Troestler@linkline.be</tt>&rsquo;:
 370 use install-info to update the info dir,
 371 warn users of &ndash;prefix that lisp files go elsewhere.
 372 </p>
 373 <p>Changed (date  1-Feb-01): version 1.20:
 374 Bug fix: missing file notes-first.el added to the distribution.
 375 (Bug found by Michael Totschnig &lsquo;<tt>michaelt@supernet.ca</tt>&rsquo;.)
 376 </p>
 377 <p>Changed ( 5-Dec-01): version 1.21:
 378 (backed-out&mdash;didn't work with spaced URLs)
 379 URL lookup now uses thing-at-point.
 380 </p>
 381 <p>Fix to make notes-mode work with emacs-21.1
 382 (Fix from Klaus Zeitler  &lsquo;<tt>kzeitler@lucent.com</tt>&rsquo;.)
 383 </p>
 384 <p>Changed ( 3-Jan-02): version 1.22:
 385 Several bugs in &lsquo;<tt>notesinit</tt>&rsquo; for stricter Perl implementations
 386 (bug found by Paul Craven&quot; &lsquo;<tt>pcraven@yorku.ca</tt>&rsquo;,
 387 and Kasper van Wijk &lsquo;<tt>kasper@acoustics.mines.edu</tt>&rsquo;)
 388 and to make it run cleanly more often.
 389 </p>
 390 <p>Notes-first now autoinitializes notes mode from emacs.
 391 (As instisted by rms, unfortunately about two years later than requested.)
 392 </p>
 393
 394 <p>Changed (20-Feb-05): version 1.23:
 395 Outline mode is now forcebly turned on to avoid interactions
 396 with user's text-mode hooks
 397 (bug and fix from Nils Ackermann &lsquo;<tt>nils@nieback.de</tt>&rsquo;).
 398 </p>
 399 <p>Install bug involving ordering of scripts and byte-compilation
 400 fixed (bug and fix from Mark Allman &lsquo;<tt>mallman@grc.nasa.gov</tt>&rsquo;).
 401 </p>
 402 <p>Fix obscure bug in configure, reported by Klaus Zeitler &lsquo;<tt>kzeitler@lucent.com</tt>&rsquo;.
 403 </p>
 404 <p>Fix for notes-summarize-subject when no subject is specified (bug and fix
 405 from Geoff Kuenning).
 406 </p>
 407 <p>Changed (14-Jan-06): version 1.24:
 408 </p>
 409 <p>install-info bug documented with the Debian install-info
 410 (bug reported by Aaron Falk &lsquo;<tt>falk@isi.edu</tt>&rsquo;).
 411 </p>
 412 <p>Automatic date completion in new days is now done in the current
 413 locale, so it should now work for non-English languages.  Bug reported
 414 by Torsten Bronger &lsquo;<tt>bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de</tt>&rsquo;.
 415 </p>
 416 <p>Fixed a bug in mkindexcache, triggered by subjects with percent signs
 417 in them.  Bug reported by Philip Austin &lsquo;<tt>paustin@eos.ubc.ca</tt>&rsquo;.
 418 </p>
 419 <p>We're a bit more robust about subjects, I hope.  Warnings should
 420 appear about embedded number signs, and leading spaces should be
 421 filtered.  Bug reported by Philip Austin &lsquo;<tt>paustin@eos.ubc.ca</tt>&rsquo;.
 422 </p>
 423 <p>Notes-mode now dervies from indented-text-mode rather than
 424 paragraph-indent-text mode.  Unfortunatley this is not customizable
 425 because of limitations of define-derived-mode.  Change suggested by
 426 Aaron Falk &lsquo;<tt>falk@isi.edu</tt>&rsquo;.
 427 </p>
 428 <p>Provide better hints about how to get started after installation or
 429 running notes-mode in emacs for the first time.
 430 </p>
 431 <p>In notes init, the default path for dir was the full path, not the tilde
 432 version of the path.  Now it defaults to using tidle for home
 433 directory.  Bug reported by Mark Allman &lsquo;<tt>allman@icir.org</tt>&rsquo;.
 434 </p>
 435 <p>Changed (26-May-06): version 1.25:
 436 </p>
 437 <p>fixed a bug in the release tar.gz file that had a additional copies
 438 copy nested.
 439 </p>
 440 <p>Changed (30-Jun-08): version 1.26:
 441 </p>
 442 <p>Force unicode I/O in &lsquo;<tt>mkindexcache</tt>&rsquo; to fix highlighting mis-alignment
 443 when using emacs-21 with unicode subject lines.
 444 </p>
 445 <p>Changed mkprevnext and mkrawindex to optionally take the list of notes files
 446 to index from stdin rather than from the command line.  Yes, I finally
 447 have 4093 notes files, overflowing the Unix command line buffer.
 448 </p>
 449 <p>Changes notes-mode.el to put path in quotes, allowing spaces to appear in home directory names (bug fix from Ulrich Herbst).
 450 </p>
 451 <p>Added a suggested features section.
 452 </p>
 453 <p>Changed ( 8-Aug-08): version 1.27:
 454 </p>
 455 <p>Change I/O in &lsquo;<tt>mkindexcache</tt>&rsquo; to use locale (the sadly correct thing)
 456 rather than forcing utf-8 (the Righteous Path).
 457 Bug report from Geoff Kuenning, a man with an older Unix environment than I.
 458 </p>
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 483 <p>21-Feb-08: (from Xavier Maillard): should support &ldquo;disconnected&rdquo; notes that
 484 are indexed but not date-based.
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 486 <p>21-Feb-08: (from John Heidemann): should switch all notes files to have an extension (maybe &lsquo;<tt>.notes</tt>&rsquo;).
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