[ANN] aeditor 1.5

[Simon Strandgaard]

AEditor is an übercool programmer's editor, written entirely in Ruby
and very easy to extend with your own customizations.

Screenshots:
  http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/020.png
  http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/021.png
  http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/022.png
  http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/023.png


Download (Windows):
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/1174/aeditor-1.5.zip
[ installation procedure on Windows, see bottom of this announcement ]

Download (UNIX):
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/1173/aeditor-1.5.tar.gz
[ installation procedure on UNIX, see bottom of this announcement ]


Changes and Features
====================

With this 1.5 release, undo/redo and macroes has been added.
Accelerated scrolling now also works on Windows.
Improvements to the Theme dialog.


If you happen to be an expert in Fxruby, please take a look at
the todo-list and see if you can help solve some of the issues:
 
http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcv...=aeditor&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
[ http://tinyurl.com/6f9hp ]


If you make any changes or have any ideas, please share.
Email me with any suggeundostions you have



Installation Procedure
======================

The easiest way to install aeditor and its dependencies is
through rpa-base, the port/pkg manager of the Ruby Production Archive.

 1) Installing Fox Toolkit 1.0.X

    (WARNING)
    DON'T INSTALL FOX 1.2.X !

    On Gentoo, you can find it under /usr/portage/x11-libs/fox
    In Debian, you'll need to:
    root$  apt-get install libfox1.0-dev

    FOX may be elsewhere on other platforms; you might be able to
    find it in your system's package manager.


 2) Installing RPA

    download and install RPA:
      http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=265&release_id=701
   
    after installation, be sure to update rpa-base:
    root$  rpa update
    root$  rpa install rpa-base


 3) Installing AEditor

    root$  rpa install aeditor


AEditor is now installed, and you may start it by typing:

  prompt$  aeditor



Installing the Dotfile
======================

The syntax coloring rules are described in the dotfile; if it's missing,
no syntax coloring will take place.

You will need to fetch this file:
http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcv...=aeditor&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
and place it in $HOME/.aeditor .

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

I got some problems here after installing aeditor 1.5.

config,setup and installing were clean but right after start of
eaditor I got:

[aeditor-1.5/] :aeditor
did not found a configuration file
spawning editor in window mode.
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/aeditor/viewfox.rb:286:in `initialize':
uninitialized constant EditorWidget::FXMenubar (NameError) from [snip backtrace]

I _thought_ I have installed everything needed, but...

Hmm.. I suspect you maybe have a different version of fox.. did you install
Fox 1.2.x ?

AEditor 1.5 doesn't work with the Fox 1.2.x (but its on my todo).

Please chect the version numbers of aeditors dependencies.

bash-2.05b$ aeditor -v
versions:
editor "1.5"
fox toolkit "1.0.43"
fxruby "1.0.25"
iterator "0.8"
ruby "1.8.1"

other info:
platform "i386-linux-gnu"
bash-2.05b$


Thanks for the report.

 

[David Ross]

That most likely is a FOX 1.2.x library, when I was
hacking at the code to work nice with FOX 1.0.x, that
was the error I did get. Something is wrong with
FXMenuBar

I got some problems here after installing aeditor 1.5.

config,setup and installing were clean but right after start of
eaditor I got:

[aeditor-1.5/] :aeditor
did not found a configuration file
spawning editor in window mode.

/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/aeditor/viewfox.rb:286:in

`initialize':
uninitialized constant EditorWidget::FXMenubar

(NameError) from
[snip backtrace]

I _thought_ I have installed everything needed,

but...

Hmm.. I suspect you maybe have a different version
of fox.. did you install
Fox 1.2.x ?

AEditor 1.5 doesn't work with the Fox 1.2.x (but
its on my todo).

Please chect the version numbers of aeditors
dependencies.

bash-2.05b$ aeditor -v
versions:
editor "1.5"
fox toolkit "1.0.43"
fxruby "1.0.25"
iterator "0.8"
ruby "1.8.1"

other info:
platform "i386-linux-gnu"
bash-2.05b$


Thanks for the report.

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-- Name: David Ross
-- Phone: 865.539.3798
-- Email: drossruby [at] yahoo.com
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[Phlip]

AEditor is an übercool programmer's editor, written entirely in Ruby
and very easy to extend with your own customizations.

Screenshots:
http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/020.png
http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/021.png
http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/022.png
http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/aeditor_shots/023.png

Simon, I'm only a little bit visually impaired, but is there some reason (on
WinXP) your colors are all near-grey on black?

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

Simon, I'm only a little bit visually impaired, but is there some reason
(on WinXP) your colors are all near-grey on black?

Hi Phlip,

no colors.. hmm.. syntax coloring is only enabled through the
configuration file (.aeditor); if its missing then no colors.
Thats usually the reason.. (it has happened quite a few times ;-)



<copy from announcement>

The syntax coloring rules are described in the dotfile; if it's missing,
no syntax coloring will take place.

You will need to fetch this file:
http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcv...=aeditor&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
and place it in $HOME/.aeditor .

</copy from announcement>


If you are on windoes it may be necessary to set the HOME variable.
for instance

set HOME=c:\


Please tell me if this helps.. and thanks for your interest in AEditor.

 

[Phlip]

and place it in $HOME/.aeditor .

I copied config_neoneye to c:/.aeditor

set HOME=c:\

Dunnit. I'm not talking about installing the highlighting. I'm talking about
after it works. All the colors are dark, and the background black.

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

I copied config_neoneye to c:/.aeditor


Dunnit. I'm not talking about installing the highlighting. I'm talking
about after it works. All the colors are dark, and the background black.

Very odd.. hmm

Can you change to 'turbo' theme via the View pulldown menu?

Can you mail me a screenshot?

 

[Alexander Kellett]

I copied config_neoneye to c:/.aeditor


Dunnit. I'm not talking about installing the highlighting. I'm talking about
after it works. All the colors are dark, and the background black.

try the turbo colour scheme

Alex

 

[Phlip]

Very odd.. hmm

Can you change to 'turbo' theme via the View pulldown menu?

Okay. Turbo and Gvim themes don't suck.

Can you mail me a screenshot?

Okay: http://flea.sourceforge.net/aeditor.png

When I use View->Customize Theme, all the colors are drab and dark.

It's like you were CGA with the bright bit always off. (There I go showing
my age again...)

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

Okay. Turbo and Gvim themes don't suck.

Great.. im happy it works.. admitted the default theme sux..
Its just me when I make changes to the syntax coloring code.. then
I make changes to the default theme.. this way it has become ugly.
Maybe I should find a nice default theme?

If you manage to make a nice theme which you think are
suitable.. then please mail me ;-)

Okay: http://flea.sourceforge.net/aeditor.png

ok.. thanks

When I use View->Customize Theme, all the colors are drab and dark.

It's like you were CGA with the bright bit always off. (There I go showing
my age again...)

Hmm.. can you upload another screenshot where you capture
both the Customize Theme dialogbox and the mainwindow at the same time.
This sounds also odd.. The Customize Theme is suppose to reflect
the currently chosen theme. Dark colors shouldn't be there.

Show me the screenshot.. and I see what I can do ;-)

Thanks for your report.


BTW: tonight I have just released AEditor-1.6.. further details are here:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/aeditor/

 

[Phlip]

Show me the screenshot.. and I see what I can do ;-)

Nonono I don't mean the dialog is innacurate. I mean it accurately displays
all the colors are murky:

http://flea.sourceforge.net/aeditorCustomizer.png

However, I can't think now, because "Jah's Music" has just started, here:

http://www.kfjc.org/netcast/index.php

Excellent programming music, everyone!

 

[Mikael Brockman]

However, I can't think now, because "Jah's Music" has just started
[...] Excellent programming music, everyone!

That sounds somewhat contradictual.

mikael

 

[Phlip]

However, I can't think now, because "Jah's Music" has just started
[...] Excellent programming music, everyone!

That sounds somewhat contradictual.

De riddims of de sacred party music gwine 'spire I-an-I de "mental state
called flow", Jah!

(With the herbal assistance of Yuban coffee mixed with Hershey's Special
Dark Chocolate. I wouldn't want y'all to think I was being a prude about
it...