# Starting this change log kind of late :-)

Official Version: 0.61
March 24, 2001: Minor enhancements, bug fixes
* A bug with Hebrew Editor aborting when saving files to read-only directories
  was fixed.
* Added a .he2rc file at ${prefix}/share/he2, which you can copy to your
  home directory and edit, or edit the file for system-wide effect. The
  file contains key-bindings definitions for he2 functions, so if you don't
  like my key bindings, you can set up your own. The format of the file is
  very simple and can be deduced from just looking at it. 
  One thing though: When you want to put an excape sequence or control 
  character you have to do it by inserting the character itself, so in vi (or
  vim) use Ctrl-V before inserting the character, and in emacs use Ctrl-Q for
  this purpose. he2 as of yet does not support inserting control characters
  and I don't think it ever would.
  Note: You can also create a customized version of the .he2rc file in the local
  directory from which you invoked he2, and it will have precedense over the
  file in your home directory and over the file in ${prefix}/share/he2
* he2 will now not get stuck when pressing ^T on a misspelled LaTeX command.
* Fixed a bug where he2 aborted when trying to save a read-only file, or a new 
  file into a read-only directory.
  

Official Version: 0.60  
March 13, 2001: Minor enhancements, fixes and packaging 
* I'd like to thank Dan Kenigsberg, Tzafrir Cohen and Itai Arad for their
  great comments and notes on the he2's packaging and some bugs they have
  discovered.
* Mostly appreciated is Tzafrir's help with creating an RPM spec for the 
  he2 package and with some bug fixes and patches.
* This version is packaged more according to 'standards' and now he2 can be 
  compiled from sources to be installed anywhere you wish 
  (using ./configure -prefix=...)
* An RPM package was added, which was built on RedHat 6.2 and tested to work 
  on Mandrake 7.x as well.
* This release comes in a hurry, because many people experienced problems with
  installing he2 on locations other than /usr/local and it prevented them
  from starting to work immediately.
* The HE-Tutorial was improved and enhanced to cover some more aspects of 
  working with the Hebrew Editor, and some installation notes were added.
* Compilation was changed to linked against libfl.a (flex) instead of libl.a
  (lex).
* he2 scripts enhanced to open an xterminal when needed, and to return the
  terminal into 'sane' mode upon exit. xhe script was removed.
* Suspend (^Z) now works as expected when working in a terminal. When in xterm
  suspend still opens a shell, and waits for you to type exit to return to
  the editor.
* Automake and autoconf files improved. I originaly used KDevelop 1.4 to 
  create the autoconf/automake environment for he2, but later kept working
  on the .am files myself until I got things the way I like them to be.

Official Version: 0.6  
March 7, 2001: Initial Public Release
* The editor has gone through several iterations, each 10 percent of the
  version number signifying fundemental feature enhancements, still far from
  my dream of 1.0. But at 0.60 it is feature full, and powerful, 
  not just usefull ;-)
* The editor has been in "closed beta" for many years, while I was a grad 
  student at the Tecnion Israel Institute of Technology. Some of the features
  and enhancements were done due to suggestions by my collegues who also began
  using the editor for their own work.
* It has proved a viable tool in writing theses in Hebrew, and a great tool for
  composing exams, home assignments and course notes.
* The editor is being released to the Open Source community (under the GPL) as
  my own contribution to this great movement, which tools and software I have
  enjoyed for years.
* If anyone is interested in working on this editor for, say, adding support
  for other right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, don't hesitate to contact
  me at tal_arie@yahoo.com. 
* I hope it proves a usefull tool for anyone who uses it.


Arie Tal


