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Welcome to Editra.org Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 60 programming languages. Editra is freely available under the terms of the wxWindows Licence. Currently the project is in the alpha development phase but test builds of "stable" points are available for download and trial as Windows and Mac OSX(Universal) binaries, currently other Unix and Linux based systems will have to install from source using the included setup script. Please feel free give it a try and to report bugs and request features.

Editra 0.3.0 Released

2008-04-25 13:16:54 cody

VERSION 0.3.0
DATE 04/25/2008
12th Alpha Release

NEWS:

This release adds support for customizable keybindings and a keybinding editor to the preferences dialog. The keybindings can be saved in multiple key profiles to allow for switching keybindings on the fly.

The bundled CodeBrowser plugin has received an update to include a number of new languages and improvements to the previously existing ones. The Projects plugin has also been updated to fix a number of bugs that were mostly visible on the Windows platform.

• +Configurable Keybindings and Keybinding editor
• +New version of CodeBrowser with added support for (Ferite, haXe, Matlab, Octave, Scheme, System Verilog, Verilog)
• +Add highlighting support for System Verilog (w/ help from Tim Corcoran)
• +Add support for (C#, Vala, Squirrel)
• +Improved support for (Caml, Objective C)
• +Improved heuristics for guessing file encoding when regular detection fails
• +Jump to matching Brace/Bracket command (default Ctrl+Shift+B)
• +Combinded Add/Delete bookmark into single toggle action
• +Add Serbian translation (contributed by Vladimir Lazic)
• +Add Turkish translation (contributed by mustafa)
• +Add Italian translation (contributed by Angelo)
• +Improved api documentation
• +Auto-(un)commenting support for Editra Style Sheets
• +Fold Margin styling can be styled separate from rest of buffer
• +Add option to set Indent Width separatly from Tab Width
• +New bundled syntax highlighting style Dessert (contributed by Greg Allen)
• +Option to highlight caret line

• +Misc UI consistancy issues
• +Add missing Objective C sample file for highlighting editor
• +Add missing ActionScript sample file for highlighting editor
• +Using 16x16 size toolbar icons on OSX
• +Missing editra.ico file on source installs under Windows
• +Handle PyDeadObjectErrors that can happen when one of the network threads started in the PluginManager returns after the manager has been closed.
• +Fix bug in failing to convert file paths to unicode when opening from command line.
• +Improper highlighting of documentation keywords
• +Saving maximized state of window on Exit

Editra 0.2.90 Released

2008-03-14 03:46:17 cody

VERSION 0.2.90
DATE 03/15/2008
11th Alpha Release

NEWS:

This release introduces a number of major new features and improvements throughout the editor. The biggest addition is the new bundled CodeBrowser plugin for browsing classes, functions, variables and other significant elements of a document. In this first release CodeBrowser has support for the filetypes (Ada, CSS, ini, batch, ESS, Fortran, Inno Setup Scripts, Lisp, Lua, NSIS, Perl, Php, Python, Shell Scripts, Tcl/Tk).

In addition to the CodeBrowser there are new updated versions many other plugins. Launch now has added support for (Ada, haXe, Php, and PostScript). The Projects plugin now has added support for using the Bazaar source control system in addition to some other minor feature additions. Another new version of FileBrowser is also shipped with Editra fixing some bugs from the previous release.

As of this release Editra has now also been localized into Dutch and Simplified Chinese, other translations have also been updated. For more details on other changes and improvements please view the changelog below.

• +New CodeBrowser plugin for browsing classes, functions, variables and other significant objects in a code document.
• +New version of Launch (add support for Ada, haXe, PHP, PostScript)
• +New version of Projects Plugin (add support for Bazaar)
• +Support for (Objective C, ActionScript, Scheme)
• +Improved Perl and Lisp highlighting
• +New version of FileBrowser with some minor fixes and enhancements
• +Colorize Error and Warning messages in Log Viewer
• +Use prefered font from preferences in Log and Launch output
• +Notebook UI improvements
• +Add option to automatically check for updates on startup
• +Add menu mneomnics for navigating menus without mouse (gtk/msw)
• +Added Dutch translation (contributed by Gerard Petersen)
• +Added Simplified Chinese translation (contributed by heccj)
• +Updated Russian translation (contributed by slavOnic)
• +Updated German translation (by nireb, DR0ID)
• +Updated Japanese translation

• +Fix bug that would prevent opening files from command line or via drag/drop
• +Editra Style Sheets allow fonts with non ascii characters in their names
• +Editra Style Sheets parse error on fonts with spaces in their names
• +Numerous minor unicode fixes throughout the editor
• +Fix memory leak in the LogViewer and Launch
• +Fix some dead object errors from improper event handling
• +Fix BOM related file opening errors
• +Php autocomment now works
• +Error launching webbrowser from Editra under Windows
• +Title bar correctly displays files modification status

Editra 0.2.65 Released

2008-02-08 16:58:06 cody

VERSION 0.2.65
DATE 02/08/2008
10th Alpha Release
NEWS:

This release includes major improvements to the detection and handling of file encodings and reporting of related errors when they happen. As part of this enhancement support for magic encoding comments are now supported in the editor for specifying an encoding for a document. The comment must be found on either the first or second line of the file. All popular comment formats are supported,

example1: # -*- encoding: utf-8 *-*
example2: # vim: set fileencoding=latin-1 :
example3: # coding=utf-16

When no encoding is specified the default will be to use utf-8 for encoding text when possible and falling back to other available system encodings when utf-8 fails.

There is also a new bundled plugin that is distributed with this release. The plugin is called Launch. It is the highly requested solution to be able to run scripts from within Editra. It currently supports most of the scripting languages that Editra has support for and provides custom output parsing and filtering for some languages such as python, perl, and lua. The special output handling will create hotspots on error messages in the output that allow instant navigation to the error by clicking on the hotspot.

• +New bundled plugin "Launch" for running scripts and viewing output.
• +Support for using C style (/* */) comments in Editra Style Sheets
• +Improved syntax highlighting sample/test files
• +Highlighting support for (Ferite, haXe)
• +Use Softtabs by default
• +Option to use backspace to dedent when in an indent region
• +Support for magic comments as described in pep 0263 for setting the encoding of a document. If an encoding is not explicitly set the default will still be to use utf-8.
• +Improved unicode support
• +Option to set a preferred lexer for new files so highlighting and other features are automatically applied when starting a new buffer.
• +New plugin "CommentBrowser" for listing and browsing TODO statements in the current buffer is available.
• +Two new icon themes available (Crystal Project and Ubuntoon)
• +All existing icon themes have received some minor updates
• +Improved Windows installer / Better Windows Desktop integration
• +Log Viewer can filter messages based on their origin
• +Updated Russian and Japanese Translations

• +Fix bug with turning off syntax highlighting in the preference dialog
• +Exiting Editra from a right click on the Windows taskbar saving invalid window size and position for next launch.
• +Add some missing Ruby keywords
• +Jump word pre/next keybindings (Ctrl+<- and Ctrl+->) now work on Linux/Windows
• +Shelf plugins that don't allow multiple instances are now correctly shown as disabled in the Shelf menu when an instance is already open.

Editra 0.2.50 Released

2008-01-18 04:27:49 cody

VERSION 0.2.50
DATE 01/19/2008
9th Alpha Release
NEWS:

I am pleased to announce the first release of Editra for 2008. It has been a slightly longer that usual development cycle for this release so hopefully extra amount of work that went in will be visible. Here are some of the most notable points in this release, there is a new version of the bundled FileBrowser plugin that has been enhanced to be able handle most file system operations. There were also a number of UI and usability improvements made to the editor, as well as support for some new programming languages. Besides the new features and improvements there are a number of bugs that have been fixed to further stabilize the editor.

• +Number of major enhancements to the FileBrowser plugin
• +Support for highlighting PL/SQL and improved SQL highlighting (contributed by Thomas Keul)
• +Support for highlighting (Boo, Pike) programming languages
• +New highlighting color scheme "BlueMonday" (by Thomas Keul)
• +Shift+Ctrl+I will toggle usage of Tabs and Soft Tabs.
• +Shift+Ctrl+C to duplicate current line
• +F3/Shift+F3 can be used as shortcuts for Find Next/Find Previous in the quick find bar. These bindings are in addition to the already existing Enter/Shift+Enter ones.
• +Number of General UI improvements
• +Minor python autocompletion improvements
• +Add German Translation (contributed by DR0ID)
• +Updated Spanish and Japanese translations
• +New logging system
• +Proxy support for downloading plugins/updates
• +LogViewer for viewing Editra's log output in the Shelf
• +Number of new backend libraries to make developing plugins and other enhancements easier.

• +Fixed bug where potential infinite loop could happen when doing a replace all
• +Fixed bug in handling Enter key in Quick Find bar on Windows
• +Fixed graphical bug that occurred on osx after maximizing a window when multiple windows are open.
• +Fixed bug that caused a failure to exit when notebook has no pages
• +Fixed paste to quick find control bug on gtk version
• +Style editor raises error when setting multiple extra style attributes on the default tag.
• +Style editor slow input in preview window
• +Properly save/restore indentation guides preferences between sessions
• +Python autocompletion not working with python2.4
• +Save preferences even when last window closed is not a main window
• +Fixed unable to enter hex codes in style editor under gtk

• -Removed support for Metal style windows on OS X

Editra 0.2.29 Released

2007-11-30 21:04:13 cody

VERSION 0.2.29
DATE 12/01/2007
8th Alpha Release

NEWS:

This release contains a number of important bug fixes and and improvements to existing features. Most notably is the major improvements that have been made to the python autocompletion. Editra is now able to provide autocompletion tips for most situations, including the local scope. It is still not perfect however so may not be able to provide tips under certain conditions but it is still a major enhancement over the previous system.

Editra is also now distributed with wxPython as of version 2.8.7. So if you are running the source versions, installing wxPython will also install Editra.

• +Major improvements to python autocompletion
• +Tab completion for command buffer Edit and Change Directory commands
• +Style Editor now exports optimized stylesheets
• +Automatic perspective mode for saving window state on exit
• +Styles are more configurable with custom settings for text selection, whitespace, and indentation guides now being configurable.
• +New Blue color scheme for syntax highlighting can be enabled in preferences
• +Russian translation of editor (contributed by Sergei Zivukov)

• +Fixed a number of python2.4 compatibility issues
• +Fixed bug in styling of code folding margin
• +Fixed bugs in updating toolbar/menu items
• +Only activate localization for locales that have translations available
• +Default to crlf on windows for initial installs
• +Fixed bug in management of search history items
• +Fixed some minor bugs and consistancy issues in style editor
• +Fixed error with getting page text of tabs