Editra

Editra is a cross-platform and user-friendly text processing application specially designed for code development.

Editra supports syntax highlighting and various other handy features for over 60 programming languages. This software is freely available under the terms of the wxWindows licence.

What is new in this release:

• NEW:
• Extended CSS highlighting support. Near complete support for CSS3.
• Updated FileBrowser plugin to version 2.2 (bug fixes)
• BUG FIXES:
• Handle error in style manager when default font face name is unknown.
• Fix unwanted/invalid completion issue in HTML autocompletion for open brackets on lines with tabs in them.
• Fix PyDeadObject that could occur during reload file request.
• Fix crash that could occur during formatting of log messages.
• Handle PyDeadObject error that could occur when changing tab icons
• Don't handle Shift+Delete as forward delete on OSX (issue 721)
• Fix caret bouncing in TextCtrls on Windows (issue 664)
• Fix PyDeadObject errors related to notebook in multiple windows.
• Fix assertions caused by right clicks in certain areas of tree controls.
• Fix Line End command not working correctly in some cases on OSX.

What is new in version 0.7.08:

• This version adds a new and reworked FileBrowser plugin which fixes many long-standing issues.
• There are also many fixes to encoding detection and handling problems which have been reported since the last release.

What is new in version 0.6.99:

• Major performance improvements to Replace All action
• Backup file suffix can be customized (patch from dkuhlman)
• Moderate improvements to performance of working with large files.
• Improved support for R programming language.
• SingleInstanceChecker temp file moved from home directory to system temp directory.
• Add option to preferences for configuring the preferred caret width (1-4 pixels).
• Support Block caret for Vi emulation mode (requires wxPython 2.9)
• LIBRARY:
• Add InfoBar control for providing simple information messages without having to show a modal dialog.
• BUG FIXES:
• Fix minor control sizing issue in ControlBars created by ControlBox.CreateControlBar on GTK/MSW.
• fix issue with Unicode normalization in search.
• Fix in buffer search operations to work better for Unicode by working around issues where StyledTextCtrl expects UTF-8 byte offsets for some methods (SetSelection, GetSelection, ...)
• Fix saved search flags not being propagated properly after application restart.
• Fix Calltip shortcut not working correctly due to incorrect lookup string being sent down to completer when character to left of cursor was a paren.
• Fix bug that could result in data loss when saving a file when all encodings failed.
• Fix MemoryError that could occur when saving large files.
• Fix some UTF-16 handling issues on Linux.

What is new in version 0.6.58:

• This release contains fixes for a number of long-standing issues on GTK as well as some improvements to Unicode handling in text searches.

What is new in version 0.6.26:

• NEW:
• New icon for showing bookmarks in the bookmark margin.
• LIBRARY:
• New api for setting breakpoint markers in editor buffer margin.
• Improved API documentation available on website.
• BUG FIXES:
• Fix crash when restoring Shelf layout if a some tabs are not reloaded.
• Only save buffers that have modifications when Save All is called.
• Fix Delete Bookmark button being disabled while BookMarkMgr is docked.
• Fix issue with Find/Replace dialog popping up underneath OSX/Gnome global menubar.

What is new in version 0.6.20:

• NEW: [features/enhancements]
• Remember Shelf layout and selected tab when application is restarted.
• Improve Python autoindenter to better handle more conditions in regards to brackets and parens.
• Autocomp and calltip shortcuts are now customizable.
• Add Bookmark manager window to Shelf
• Support storing/loading user configuration from XDG standard location on Linux.
• Persist find settings between sessions.
• Improvements to the Style Editor (ability to remove style sheets)
• Display Font setting now also applies to the font used by the tabs.
• LIBRARY:
• Support ControlBars in on left and right side of ControlBox.
• Add ProcessThreadBase class to allow for customizing the creation of the Popen object.
• Add support for displaying breakpoint markers in editor buffer.
• BUG FIXES:
• Fix issue that could result in crash when rapidly clicking on notebook buttons.
• Fix minor display issue in update checker gauge.
• Fix behavior of left/right arrow key motions in vim emulation mode to better emulate vi.
• Fix issue where an invalid encoding would be detected as the default encoding on some systems.
• Fix issue where ToolBar would not resize properly when appearance settings where changed to use different size icons.
• Fix screen refresh issue in tab control where it wouldn't get repainted properly in some cases.
• Fix crash in reload with encoding when the encoding fails to decode the text.
• Fix pipe character not being accepted in keybindings editor.
• Fix angle brackets not being handled properly in keybindings editor.
• Fix issue with window not being brought to front in all cases when opening file with "Edit with Editra..." shortcut on Windows.
• Fix issue with showing calltips for buffers that are not visible.
• Handle OverflowError that could occur when too large a value was passed to the busy indicator.
• Fix display inconsistencies in recently opened file menu.
• Fix some issues with the binary installer and uninstaller on Windows Vista/7
• Fix behavior of change word command to better emulate vi.
• Fix error handling in purging of old log files.
• Fix keybinding editor not applying cleared keybindings until restart.
• Fix hard crash that could occur when processing auto-completion data for some Python modules with a py2exe version of Editra.
• Clear existing keybinding when assigning to new action in keybinding editor.
• Fix issue with updating styles after overwriting or updating an existing style sheet with new settings.
• Fix bug in style editor that would warn about changes when no changes have been made.
• Handle styling some additional CSS2 keywords (outline, left).
• Correct some Unicode handling issues in style sheet handling and RTF output generator.
• Fix refresh issue with button highlighting in PluginManager dialog (MSW).

What is new in version 0.5.51:

• NEW: [features/improvements]
• Tabs can be dragged out to split notebooks so that buffers and Shelf items can be viewed side by side.
• What items are displayed in the Lexer menu are now configurable.
• Basic support for highlighting asp script embedded in html files.
• New version of Launch plugin with some bug fixes.
• Add Close Others option to right click tab menu to close all but the selected tab.
• Add support for highlighting Forth source files.
• Add support for Java to CodeBrowser (patch from Eric Gaudet)
• Add support for Diff files to CodeBrowser (patch from Eric Gaudet)
• Custom autobackup directory can be configured.
• Extend HTML support to support HTML5 syntax (patch from Hagn99)
• Add --no-clean option to source file installer to skip old file cleanup.
• LIBRARY:
• New plugin interface for adding autocompletion providers added (iface.AutocompI)
• FilterDialog class added to eclib
• BUG FIXES:
• Fix segmentation fault on Linux when using right click context menu to paste.
• Fix some minor vhdl highlighting issues.
• Fix issue where typing over selected text would sometimes not overwrite it
• Fix exception that could occur when syntax highlighting extensions are removed.
• Fix issue where autocomp/callip popups would not get hidden when they should.
• Fix issue where window could be restored off screen when extra displays have been removed from the system between running the program.
• Fix issue where tab label would incorrectly show a modified state after loading a large file in incremental mode.
• Fix bug in python autocompleter that could raise an error when retrieving a calltip under some conditions.
• Fix issue with detecting magic encoding if it was changed after the buffer was loaded on subsequent saves.
• Fix bug in reloading of buffers after encoding error is detected that would result in them always becoming a read only buffer.
• Fix bug in retrieving file extension for file types that have no extensions associated with them.
• Fix bad link to online documentation in Help menu
• Default to English local when localized resource for LANGUAGE_DEFAULT are not available.
• Fix issue with folded code disappearing when folding option is toggled off.

What is new in version 0.4.85:

• Greatly improved performance of loading large files.
• Add Count feature to find dialog for counting number of matches in a buffer.
• Add Vim find char motions (patch from hasan.aljudy).
• Add Vim bookmarks and navigation (patch from hasan.aljudy).
• Add support for the Groovy programming language (patch from omar.gomez).
• Add new syntax style sheet Guepardo (patch from omar.gomez).
• Add support for loading installation provided key profiles.
• Add VisualStudio keybindings option (from Vivian).
• Updater is only available if user account running program has access permissions to the install directory.
• New version of FileBrowser plugin. (adds search in directory option).
• Add option for extended autocompletion to include results from the simple completer in with results.
• Add support for showing images in the autocompletion popup list.
• Fix Launch config not properly being initialized when config panel accessed from plugin dialog for first time.
• Fix command entry listing of paths (patch from hasan.aljudy).
• Fix autocompletion for when accented characters are in the command string (modified patch from roman.chyla).
• Fix some unicode handling issues in search/replace. (patch from roman.chyla)
• Fix number of printout rendering issues.
• Update readonly status when permissions change on disk.
• Fix error in moving a tab from one window to another when the tab was the only tab left in the window it was moved from. (filebrowser bug).
• Fix condition where saving the session file could potentially potentially be passed the incorrect type.
• Fix error in loading files that have an improper magic encoding comment.

What is new in version 0.4.65:

• NEW FEATURES:
• Some improvements to the Python autocompletion.
• Comment/Uncomment are now combined into a single toggle action (modified patch from Giuseppe "Cowo" Corbelli).
• When mixed eol characters are detected a dialog warning of it is now shown, that offers to convert them instead of toggling on eol visibility as it previously did, since this was found to be confusing to many.
• Add option to enable/disable checking of eol characters.
• Add menu shortcut for toggle fold.
• Add a verbose debug mode for view stack tracebacks in editra log messages.
• Updated (Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish) Translations.
• Reuse existing find results screens more effectively.
• New version of Launch with support for R.
• BUG FIXES:
• Fix find options not properly being syncronized between dialog and find bar.
• Fix event handlers not properly getting connected when going from 2 -> 1 open windows.
• Fix eol mode settings in preferences.
• Fix search bar text not being colored properly on msw/gtk.
• Fix window not being raised from taskbar when opening file with 'Open with...'
• Fix drag and drop error for instlling plugins through plugin manager.

Requirements:

• Python
• wxPython