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


Note that Windows and UNIX versions are different in this
release due to a possible bug in Fox.

Download (Windows):
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/1149/aeditor-1.4.zip
[ installation procedure on windows, see README in that zip file ]

Download (UNIX):
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/1147/aeditor-1.4.tar.gz
[ installation procedure on UNIX, see bottom of this announcement ]


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

With this 1.4 release, rendering has been heavily optimized.
Only the necessary screen draws are performed, greatly reducing
cpu usage for the following operations:

* insert letter
* delete letter
* break line
* join line
* move cursor up/down/left/right
* move cursor home/end
* move cursor to next/prev word


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/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/projects/experimental/buffer/TODO?rev=1.58&cvsroot=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 suggestions you have :)



Installation Procedure on Unix
==============================

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/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/projects/experimental/buffer/config_neoneye?rev=1.14&cvsroot=aeditor&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
[ http://tinyurl.com/6h3nn ]
and place it in $HOME/.aeditor .



--
Simon Strandgaard