VinEd 2.6

22.10.1999

VinEd 2.6 contains many small corrections and enhancements.
Graphical views are now also supported.

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VinEd 1.0

9.4.1998

Jorma Sajaniemi
Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu
P.O.Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland
saja@cs.joensuu.fi

Kari Ikonen
Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu
P.O.Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland
kikonen@cs.joensuu.fi


INTRODUCTION
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Programmers' mental representations of programs do not obey the
order, form and immediate content of program text. Multiple visible
representations, or views, of a program supports programmers in
constructing mental representations that they need in, e.g.,
maintenance tasks.

VinEd is a language independent program editor that
supports an unlimited number of views of the program text.
Programmers can use predefined views and create their own views by
defining filtering functions. Programs can be edited through a view
provided there is a reverse operation that constructs the original
representation from the view. VinEd extends the notion of a view to
any representation that can be obtained from the original program,
e.g., program compilation, or version control functions. Thus VinEd
can be extended to a complete programming environment.

VinEd 1.0 is a prototype system, and it should not be used for
anything but experimentation.

INSTALLATION
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VinEd is implemented on UNIX using Tcl/Tk. VinEd requires
Tcl version 7.5 and Tk version 4.1, or higher. It has been tested
also on Tcl/Tk 8.0(patch level 2) on Red Hat Linux (kernel 2.0.32).

For installation instructions see vinemanu.txt chapter Asennus.
Instructions are in Finnish but they should be easy to understand
at least after a small check in VinEd distribution files.

Please note that VinEd won't work unless your have set VINED_LIB
environment variable as noted in installation instructions.