Summary of Changes for Proof General 3.0 from 2.1 ================================================= Generic Changes --------------- * The excellent X-Symbol package is now well supported by Proof General. This allows proof assistants to display logical symbols, Greek letters, etc, with ease. The original patches for Isabelle are courtesy of David von Oheimb. There are early experimental configurations provided for LEGO and Coq which use ordinary character sequences rather than escaped tokens (so "/\" appears as a wedge, and "Gamma" appears as the letter Gamma). You may need to install X-Symbol first; visit http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~wedler/x-symbol * Demonstration instance of Proof General for Isabelle shows how you can get the interface going with a minimum of fuss. It has less than 30 simple settings. * Proof General is now more cany about the queue of commands. You can now add more proof commands on the end of the queue, without the "Proof Process Busy" message. * New function C-c C-f (proof-find) to invoke some prover-specific mechanism to search for theorems. * Whenever scripting is triggered in a new file, a cd command is sent to the proof assistant to switch to the right directory (in case other files are included). * [XEmacs only] Toolbar has six new buttons (State, Context, Info, Command, Help, Stop) which invoke commands previously available on keys/menus. Also a new "Find" button for proof-find. * [XEmacs only] Toolbar enablers have been added. Buttons are automatically enabled or disabled as appropriate. This requires XEmacs 21 or better for reliable working, so is disabled for earlier versions. If you do not like enablers, you can turn them off with the new configuration variable proof-toolbar-use-enablers. With this variable nil, buttons do nothing when they otherwise be disabled. * Menus and keybindings have been reorganized. Bindings C-c are being phased out; they are supposed to be reserved for the user according to Emacs convention. * Keybindings for assert/retract now invoke the same functions as the toolbar. In particular, C-c C-n and C-c C-u are simplified so that they always process or retract exactly one command, rather than one command beyond point. Moreover, C-c C-u does not take an optional argument to delete the retracted text (it was too easy for the user to accidently type C-u C-c C-u !) * New command C-c C-RET proof-goto-point which generalises previous proof-assert-until-point to also do retracting if point is in the locked region. * User options have been re-organized and renamed to be more suggestive. Boolean options can be toggled from the menu and saved with "Save options" on the ordinary Emacs "Options" menu. (Others can be set via Customize). * "Active terminator minor mode" is now called "electric terminator". It has one setting for all buffers, and you can customize it if you want it permanently on. * Command C-c C-t (proof-try-command) removed in favour of C-c C-v (proof-execute-minibuffer-cmd), which now uses the filter proof-state-preserving-p to check that a command is safe. * Terminal string now automatically added to command for C-c C-v * [XEmacs only] New function control-button1 (proof-mouse-track-insert) copies individual commands (highlighted regions) from an open proof. When a proof is closed, it behaves as mouse-track-insert (the default XEmacs behaviour of control-button1). * Switching scripting buffers is now more flexible. When scripting is turned off in a partly-finished buffer, the user is prompted whether to retract or process the buffer. Automatic retraction or completion can be selected by configuring the option proof-auto-action-when-deactivating-scripting. (To be compatible with the file operations in a proof assistant, Proof General only allows completely processed or completely unprocessed scripts in non-active buffers). * New function C-c C-s (proof-toggle-active-scripting) to switch scripting on or off in current buffer. This is a handy way to discard or finish off scripting in an unfinished buffer triggering the deactivation mechanism mentioned above. Switching on scripting in a buffer may cause the proof assistant to load files it depends on, so it is also handy to see what happens before scripting begins in the buffer. * Proof by pointing has been re-enabled in the code. LEGO's implementation of the proof-by-pointing rule choices is dodgy, but works sometimes, and it is nice to demonstrate Proof General's support for pbp until another prover implements it. (It should be relatively straightforward to implement for Coq, since the CtCoq pbp code is now embedded in the core system; we need a Coq expert to do this). * Cleaned up example files so all demonstrate same theorem "conj_comms". Would be nice to add more theorems to compare scripts/proofs in different systems. Please send in example scripts! * Shorter buffer names for convenience. * Removed transparent gif (text logo) from splash screen because XEmacs can't display it nicely. * Documentation updates. Coq Changes ----------- * Set proof-{qed,save}-commands so the toolbar functions work. * Generic command C-c C-f (proof-find-theorems) replaces Coq specific command C-c C-s (coq-Search). LEGO Changes ------------ * Proofs which have no save command are now closed off automatically when another command arrives, so undo-redo is more flexible. Isabelle and Isar Changes ------------------------- * Several tweaks for input syntax. * Recognize goals of the old form val prems = goal ... and saves of the old form val thm = result. * Proofs which are "unfinished", i.e. have no qed or result, are now closed off automatically, mirroring the behaviour of Isabelle. This does not apply to Isar. * Confusing display of only last error is fixed: multiple error messages are now coalesced properly. Only in the developers' release ------------------------------- * Provisional instantiation of Proof General for Plastic (http://www.dur.ac.uk/CARG/plastic.html) by Paul Callaghan . Internal changes for developers to note --------------------------------------- * x-symbol support has been made generic. See documentation and proof-config.el. * Many robustness improvements so that Proof General fails gracefully when certain configuration settings are unset. The aim is to make it easier to adapt to new proof assistants. * A new setting proof-completed-proof-behaviour allows for more flexible ways of managing goal...save regions, including automatically closing them when the first command after the proof is completed arrives. This means we can handle proof assistants which do not have an explicit save command now. See the documentation of proof-completed-proof-behaviour. * Renamed several configuration variables for uniformity. Check the ChangeLog for details. * Speed optimizations for the proof-shell-filter, to attempt to give more CPU to a hungry and noisy proof process. To help with this there is a new configuration variable proof-shell-eager-annotation-start-length. * proof-site now does nothing if it has already been loaded. Previously it would load again, possibly altering settings. * Multiple file handling improvements: Added proof-shell-inform-file-processed-cmd setting to tell the prover about files which are processed completely inside Proof General. This is called when scripting is turned off inside a completely processed buffer. Added proof-shell-inform-file-retracted-cmd setting for symmetric case: to tell the prover when files which are to be considered *not* completely processed inside Proof General. The is called when scripting is turned on inside a completely processed buffer (as the conceptual state of the buffer changes to partly-processed). * proof-shell-leave-annotations-in-output variable has been added. This allows quick and dirty mark up of output from the proof assistant using special characters with codes above 128 and font-lock. Such characters are removed from display in the output buffers. However, it is NOT recommended to use this mechanism heavily, because the entire mechanism of using 8 bit character codes as "special" characters is fragile and needs replacing in future versions of Proof General! * proof-font-lock-zap-commas has been added to control whether or not the excrutiating font-lock hack to unhighlight commas is enabled. * Many code cleanups and improvements.