Overview of changes in JOE 2.9.8 (5 May 2003)
- fixed signal handling
- return of the context help
- fixed segfault when moving rectangular block
- code clean up
- killed deadlock when reformatting paragraph
- fixed skiptop handling
- SECURITY: drop suid and sgid bits when creating backup files
- fixed segfaults in isalpha()-like functions

Overview of changes in JOE 2.9.8-pre1 (14 Dec 2001)
- BUGFIX: don't exchange start and end point of the block in some cases
- defaulting to turn off -asis (locales take care of this; if joe doesn't
  print characters with 8th bit set properly, check if you have properly
  installed and set locales or simply turn on -asis option in joerc)
- fix to make joe compilable on *BSD
- fix to make joe compilable on systems without siginterrupt()
- added "support" for End key
- code cleanup: warnings removal (some still remaining, working on it)

Overview of changes in JOE 2.9.7 (7 Nov 2001)
- BUGFIX: always save (even not-modified) file
- BUGFIX: solve problem with freezing after saving unmodified file
- small documentation update

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.7-pre3 (29 Oct 2001)
- BUGFIX: wordwrap bug fixed (again and I'm sure forever)
- BUGFIX: don't change window when setting mark in multiwindow mode
- BUGFIX: use automake-1.5 to make joe compile on irix-6.5 with non-GNU make
- continuing code clean up: this code adds strict prototypes which raises
  a lot of warnings (they seem harmless) - we're working on their removal

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.7-pre2 (10 Oct 2001)
- use automake and autoconf for configuration system (for now versions
  automake-1.4-p4 and autoconf-2.52)
- a lot of warnings of compiler were removed
- SECURITY:: use mkstemp() for temporary files if available
- code clean up
    
Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.7pre1 (19 Jul 2001)
- help system was slightly modified
- a lot of warnings of compiler were removed
- BUGFIX:: problem with freezing when save was solved (at least partially)
- BUGFIX:: undo after save of file (again same patch)
- FEATURE:: suffix of backup copy from SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX environment 
  variable

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.7pre0 (02 Jul 2001)
- major BUGFIX:: wordwrap problem
- BUGFIX:: indentation
??* JOE can be compiled on Windows platform again
??* BUGFIX:: problem with ${sysconfdir}/joerc was solved

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.6 (13 Apr 2001)

- BUGFIX:: resizing window
- JOE can be compiled on Windows platform again
* BUGFIX:: problem with ${sysconfdir}/joerc was solved
- BUGFIX:: security patch for sprintf
- BUGFIX:: partially solved problem on Solaris with SegFault
- BUGFIX:: patch joe-2.8-security (slightly changed)
- BUGFIX:: patch joe-2.8-port
- BUGFIX:: patch joe-2.8-mips
- BUGFIX:: patch joe-2.8-vsmk
- BUGFIX:: patch joe2.8-time
- *rc files where moved from $(prefix)/lib to $(prefix)/etc or $sysconfdir
- Makefile.in (and Makefile) was rewritten
   - special prefix for package (more in Makefile.in)
   - use of system independent 'mkinstalldirs'
   - rc files are not rewritten
- TEST FEATURE:: added autoconf support
		program can be installed by ./configure; make; make install
- BUGFIX (v2.9.4):: go to previous word problem solved
- JOE can be compiled without locale.h again
- BUGFIX:: patch joe2.8-axphack.patch
- BUGFIX:: patch joe2.8-resize2.patch
- BUGFIX:: fixed problem with :include in rc files
- BUGFIX (v2.9.5):: portability problem with is_blank on nonGNU systems

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.5 (28 Mar 2001)

- new BUG:: can't be compiled on non-GNU systems (is_blank()) fixed in v2.9.6
- BUGFIX:: Fixed problem with resizing. 
- SECURITY:: .[joe|rjoe|jpico|..]rc in actual directory is ignored
             because in this file can be defined which program run.

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9.4 (27 Mar 2001)

- new BUG:: go to previous word; goes one character before this word 
            fixed in v2.9.6
- FEATURE:: locale (LC_CTYPE) is accepted when skipping/deleting/... words	

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.9  (22 Mar 2001)

- version 2.8 with patches from RedHat/Suse

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.8

- Fixed problem with TERMPATH string
- Added stupid two-letter names to termcap file
- Improved jmacs help and command set
- Improved README file

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.7

- putenv() was not portable
- utime was not portable
- special utime handling for NeXT
- forgot to \\ the \s in the default termcap entry
- changed some key defaults in jpicorc
- add IXOFF in termio/termios list
- left margin limit was incorrect
- allow '.' and '/' in file names for error parsing
- Needed ptem.h and stream.h for SCO_UNIX window size structure (?)
- wordwrap no longer propogates indent prefix
- paragraph format was broken for tab indented paragraphs
- pipe through shell now goes through stderr too
- added '-crlf' option
- looks for termcap file in JOERC/termcap

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.6

- Fixed stupid bug in termcap.c which prevented terminfo from working
- ESC h was missing from jpicorc
- Changes suggested by Dan Nelson:
   - backup files now attempt to have same permissions and times as original
   - Stat command now ands chars with 255 (don't know why this worked on my system
     without this...)
   - Maybe change shell invocation name- have to check this more

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.5

- No longer use ^[ O, ^[ A, ^[ B, ^[ C, or ^[ D for anything because they
  interfere with arrow keys.
- Couldn't create new files because of bug in readonly setting
- fwrdc/bkwdc were crashing the editor except when called from wordstar
- 'tr' command was not called in a portable way in jmacs
- 'tr' was causing problems with the spell-check macros as well
- filter region was not working: had to add 'query' in ^[ | macro
- Changed incremental search so that whatever key the command is bound to
  can be used to repeat the search (used to only be able to use ^S)

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.4

- Closing message was incorrect when exit macros (macros where the last
  command is abortbuf) were used.
- SuperPico rc file added
- Write block now writes the entire file if no block is set
- Added pico kill function for pico emulation
  (tried to do this with 'psh,markk,blkdel' where blkdel deletes lines if
   no block is set, but it didn't group the deletes right in the yank
   buffer)
- Filter block would leave the marks set
- Fixed ^@ in joe mode
- Fixed help screen glitches in wordstar mode
- If joe can't make a backup file it now prompts for you to save anyway
- Eliminated IDLEOUT compile option.  Now is the user gives - on the
  command line, joe uses /dev/tty.
- Added %o %O %a %A %X and %R status line messages
- Starts out in read only mode if loaded file can not be written to
- If joe can't find the termcap/terminfo entry, it instead uses the default
- termcap routines are now included even if you use terminfo.  If your
  terminal can't be found in the terminfo database, it will look in
  the termcap database too.
- The JOETERM environment variable can be used to bypass the TERM
  environment variable setting.

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.3

- Search & Replace bugs fixed
   - replace would mess up the end mark of a marked block
   - a search would trash ^KB if only ^KB was set
   - regex problem with \*
- Was using TCSANOW in posix driver.  Should have been using TCSADRAIN
- Format paragraph now correctly formats quoted news articles
- Attempted fix for SCO
- Fix for coherent
- Fix for old IRIX/SGI
- Fixed bug where if you used search & replace in a macro, and exiting the
  search & replace loop with right arrow key, then when you played the macro
  you got an extra ^[ in the input queue
- Added file hooks
- Added function to insert current keyboard macro into current file
- Added range checks to numeric option settings
- Restricted joe rc file added
- Added ':def' feature for rc files

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.2

- First attempt at MS-DOS version of joe
   - Direct screen write
   - Modifications for dos file/drive names
   - Use TEMP variable to figure out where to store temporary file
   - Smaller virtual memory page size
   - Backslashes in file name problem
   - CR before an LF looks like an LF
- Backward search ignore-case was not working
- Scalable window height was not working fully
- Spaces in file-names gave a problem with backup file creation
- TILDE option is not available in all versions of BSD
- Allow : as seperate for termcap filename list
- Next error / Prev. error was not tracking right
- tabs not displayed right in nxterr/prverr messages
- Block moves where the cursor was to the right of the block was broken

Overview of Changes in JOE 2.1

- rc file wasn't giving correct error messages for missing options
- the '-nobackups' options was mispelled: '- nobackups'
- editor was crashing because of problem in undo
- update bypass in utype has a problem when wordwrapping and scrolling
