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[Pierre Courtieu <Pierre.Courtieu AT cnam.fr>]

Hello,

A new development release of ProofGeneral is available at

http://zermelo.dcs.ed.ac.uk/devel

New features / Improvements :

*** No more support for coq 7.x
*** Much better PG/Coq synchronizing system for coq >= 8.1
*** error highlighting
*** coq 8.0 compatibility mode
*** Much better indentation
*** new coq-insert-tactic and coq-insert-command functions
*** New variables coq-user-commands-db and coq-user-tactics-db
*** automatic insertion of "match...with" for a given type
*** Local Variables List semi automatic filling
*** Better font-lock coloration
*** new "queries" menu

Details below,
bug reports are welcome 
(Pierre.Courtieu AT cnam.fr)

Cheers,

Pierre Courtieu

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*** No more support for coq 7.x

*** Much better PG/Coq synchronizing system for coq >= 8.1

    Synchronization is not based on script parsing anymore, which
    makes it much more reliable. 

    In particular you don't need to set
    coq-user-state-changing-commands and others anymore (was needed
    for your own tactics/commands). See below coq-user-commands-db.

    Coq v8.0 is still supported, if for some reason PG does not see
    that your coq version is a 8.0 (read *Message* after loading a .v
    file), then set variable coq-version-is-V8-0 to t in your emacs
    init file. Otherwise PG will hang at first line when scripting.

*** error highlighting

    When scripting, error with location information are parsed and the
    corresponding part of the scripting buffer is highlighted. Inspired
    from coqide.

*** coq 8.0 compatibility mode

    If coq does not detect the good coq version at startup put one of
    the following in your .emacs:

    (setq coq-version-is-V8-1 t)   or    (setq coq-version-is-V8-0 t)

    Default is now 8.1 (if no coqtop is found in the path when loading
    the first .v file).

*** Much better indentation

    More robust. nested comments are OK even in xemacs. Still
    slow on big files. 

    indent-region won't touch comments, but indenting comments with
    tab (indent-according-to-mode) will.

*** new coq-insert-tactic and coq-insert-command functions

    These two functions allow to insert a tactic or command with
    completion in the mini-buffer.

*** New variables coq-user-commands-db and coq-user-tactics-db

    User defined tactics/commands information.  See C-h v
    coq-syntax-db for syntax. It is not necessary to add your own
    tactics here if you have coq v8.1 (it is not needed by the
    synchronizing/backtracking system). You may however do so for the
    following reasons:

    1 your tactics/commands will be colorized by font-lock

    2 your tactics/commands will be added to the menu and to completion
    when calling coq-insert-tactic/command (see below)

    3 you may define an abbreviation for your tactic/command.

*** automatic insertion of "match...with" for a given type

    This coqide great feature has been added.

*** Local Variables List semi automatic filling

    Local Variables Lists are used to set coq program name and arguments
    persistently for a given file. The menu entry "set coq prog
    persistently" helps you to define or change the values in this list
    (which are store as a comment at the end of the file, see info
    manual at node ((emacs)File Variables).

*** Better font-lock coloration

*** new "queries" menu