News 26th May 2009

By DBL | May 26, 2009

Remembering that it is important to release soon and frequently, I have tagged version 0.2 of Redcar. There are numerous improvements and fixes, thanks to some new contributers. The installation process is slightly different, see below. Please report any bugs to the bug tracker.

I might have waited a bit longer before tagging this release, but I’m going to be very busy with work for a few weeks and I wanted to get what fixes there were out there for people to use.

This is still alpha-quality software! Use at your own risk and if there is something missing you need, add it! We will commit patches promptly.

New contributers

New features, enhancements

I am a little disappointed that neither the bundle support nor the performance of the syntax highlighter have significantly improved in this release, and they will be the priorities for 0.3.

Installing

The installation instructions are slightly changed. In particular there are no longer any release tarballs. You have to clone the source from git. Sorry, there are still no Debian packages, but we are working on getting some ready.

Plans for 0.3

Some things 0.3 will have:

That Railscasts theme in action:

Railscast theme

Best wishes, and thanks to everyone who has expressed support for Redcar!

DBL

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News 5th April 2009

By DBL | April 5, 2009

Here is a screenshot of the fuzzy file finder:


find in project

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News 18th Mar 2009

By DBL | March 18, 2009

Progress:

screenshot-redcar2

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London Ruby User Group Talk

By DBL | March 10, 2009

So the talk last night at LRUG seemed to go and go down well. I think I rushed past some features that would have been nice to show off but I’m sure the audience got the gist.

slides-shot

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News 18th Feb 2009

By DBL | February 18, 2009

Some more news for February:

Have another screenshot too:

screenshot-redcar-1

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News Feb 2009

By DBL | February 10, 2009

Some new snippets:

  1. There is now a bug tracker online at redcar.lighthouseapp.com. Please send your problems there, and I’ll get on the case.
  2. Simple macros (no saving) now work. I was pleased with how easy this was to implement, probably only about 30 lines of code.

I hope you recognize this theme:

screenshot-redcar

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News Jan 2009

By DBL | January 30, 2009

Hi all. Some notes:

  1. There is a Redcar twitter feed at http://twitter.com/_redcar. I’ll post short news and updates there, in the same fashion as http://twitter.com/datamapper.
  2. People have been asking for a bug tracker for Redcar. I did have a Redmine instance set up for Redcar, and I’ll get it back online again when I can.
  3. I’ve been away on holiday for a week or so, which is why I missed the comments in the IRC channel. Back now.
  4. Would the commenter ‘R’ from the last post please get in touch, I may be able to help with the problem you’re having. Please email me at dan@fluentradical.com

It’s been a while since I posted a screenshot:

Rails project and tabs screenshot

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Working on the Project Plugin

By DBL | November 29, 2008

This morning I implemented these six commands on the context menu for the Project Plugin.

I’m also now developing Redcar 100% with Redcar. So you could say that Redcar was now self-hosting.

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IRC

By DBL | November 27, 2008

I created an IRC channel #redcar at irc.freenode.net

I’ll be hanging around most days and I live in the GMT timezone. The best timezone.

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Approaching Release 0.1

By DBL | October 29, 2008

We’re approaching the first release of Redcar (0.1). I’m naming it the “Dogfood release” as my number one goal is that I should be able to use it myself as my primary editor. At the moment I’m managing to develop Redcar from within Redcar, but I still don’t use it for work.

Work remaining before I can package it up:

Improvements to the speedbar. The speedbar is the function in Redcar that is like the search bar in Firefox that appears at the bottom of tabs. As previously designed there was only one speedbar per Redcar window, but I have decided that it is useful to have one per tab, so that you can have multiple editing contexts. Do you agree with this decision? Please comment.

Snippet compatibility. I’m going to make a survey of the TextMate snippets, and try and ensure that they are as fully compatible as possible. For the Dogfood release TextMate command support is going to be patchy, though I’ll try to get as much done as possible.

Dependency packaging and build scripts. Philip who has a blog called Ivercore has shown infinite patience in working through the dependencies needed to get Redcar installed. He’s done it twice, once before the project moved over to using GtkMateView and once after. Thanks Philip. These dependencies now need to be packaged and a build script/makefile written.

GtkMateView checklist. The buffer reparsing needs to be finished off (at the moment it redoes the entire buffer after every keypress!). I’m thinking that the new scheme will be Emacs like, in that it will reparse your current line after every keypress and will reparse the rest of your screen only once you have rested for half a second. The Dogfood release will not include background threaded parsing, but that is a priority for after.

The Project plugin. This has a few items needed, like a context menu and the ability to open a folder from the command line.

I hope that this release will be out sometime towards the end of November.

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