EEL Programming Changes in Epsilon 11

Lugaru's Epsilon
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The EEL compiler is now more thorough in checking function calls to primitives for the correct argument types. Other diagnostics have been improved as well.
Searching commands now contain a "continuation" feature, for modes where the buffer contains a single "record" out of many, and searching should move from record to record. A buffer-specific function will be called to swap one record for another.
The four variables show_matching_start_spot, show_matching_start_end_spot, show_matching_end_spot, and show_matching_end_end_spot have been replaced by two arrays highlight_area_start and highlight_area_end, to make the source code easier to understand. Macros let you use the old names.
Syntax highlighting modes can set the COLOR_RETAIN_NARROWING flag in the coloring_flags variable to indicate that coloring should respect any narrowing in effect (instead of looking outside the narrowed area to parse the buffer in its entirety).
The new macro GUI_CURSOR_SHAPE( ) replaces CURSOR_SHAPE( ) in GUI environments; it provides ways to set the height, width and cursor offset.
Under Unix, buf_pipe_text( ) primitive now recognizes the new PIPE_SKIP_SHELL flag, which makes it directly invoke the specified program instead of using a shell as an intermediary (resulting in improved performance).
EEL now permits structure assignment.

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