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NetBeans, Logging

The most exciting news is that MacVim now supports +netbeans_intg thanks to the
work of Kazuki Sakamoto.  This will, among other things, allow for tighter
integration with GDB via programs such as clewn.  I looked into this briefly
myself and posted about it, but I'd be interested in more complete instructions
on how to setup and use clewn with MacVim (in case anybody feels like sharing).

In order to help me "remote debug" MacVim problems that are reported here and
elsewhere I have implemented a very simplistic logging facility using ASL.  For
those of you who are interested, I found the following page on ASL quite
helpful:

http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-01-19/next-week-apple-system-logger

As far as the logging system in MacVim goes, this is what you need to know:
  - Debug and Info level messages are blocked by default, set the user default
    MMLogLevel to 7 to unblock both
  - Actually, that's not enough since the ASL database filter blocks those
    levels as well; to remedy this enter "sudo syslog -c syslogd -d" in
    Terminal (and "sudo syslog syslogd off" when you want to reset the filter).
    You'll now be able to see all that MacVim logs in Console.app (choose "All
    Messages" in the left-hand list).
  - If you don't want to use Console.app you can use "syslog -w | grep Vim" to
    see logs in Terminal
  - If you are using Xcode it is nicest to have logs go to stderr since they
    then show up in the output window in Xcode.  To send logs to stderr, enable
    the user default MMLogToStdErr.  (In this case you don't have to muck
    around with the ASL database filter either.)

I don't recommend running with MMLogLevel set to 7 all the time since MacVim
spews out masses of logs at that level.  But when there is a problem I will
want to see the logs from that level.  And oh, since logs go to the ASL
database by default there will be no logs from MacVim to stderr (unless you
enable MMLogToStdErr) which may be nice to those of you who start MacVim from
Terminal.  (The only messages you'll see are logged by Cocoa and I cannot
disable them unfortunately.)

Other changes:

  - Markdown (Nico Weber) and reStructuredText (Travis Jeffery) are supported
    file types
  - The forever bouncing Dock icon bug should now really really be fixed
    (Kazuki Sakamoto)
  - Fixed bug when file name contained decomposed UTF8 characters
  - Quick Look should work for most/all supported filetypes now (although the
    preview is simple text and is not syntax highlighted)
  - Update the help file
  - 'guifontwide' is updated on Cmd-+/Cmd--
  - The titles of the next/previous tab menu items now match other apps
  - Add NetBeans support (Kazuki Sakamoto)
  - Add simple logging facility
  - Update to latest Vim patches and runtime files