NAME kephra - crossplatform, GUI-Texteditor designed along Perl's Paradigms SYNOPSIS > kephra [] # start with certain files open DESCRIPTION This module install's a complete editor application with all its configs and documentation for your programming, web and text authoring. Philosophy Main Goals A visually harmonic and beautiful, sparing and elegantly programed Editor, that helpes you with all your daily tasks. It should be also able to operate in the way you prefer and be not afraid to try new things. In Depth I know, I know, there are plenty text editors out there, even some really mighty IDE, but still no perfect solution for many programmers. So lets learn from Perl 5 and 6 what it takes to build a tool thats powerful and fun to play with for hours and months. * make a low entry barrier (usable like notepad) * copy what people like and are used to and whats not inherently broken * give choices (TimTowtdi) * (e.g. deliver vi and emacs input style) * usable with menu, contextmenu, bars, mouse combo, key combos, commands ... * configure via dialog and yaml/conf files ... * highly configurable / adaptable to personal preferences * beauty / good integration on GUI, code and config level * solve things with minimal effort (no bloat / minimal dependencies) * still everything extendable by easy to write plugins I believe strongly that there is much more possible with GUI editors and text editors in general than we are used today. So I try to weave fresh ideas wherever I can and design Kephra in a way, that every programmer can alter and extend it easily. That can speed up progress or at least makes Kephra more comfortable for you. That is the plan, but we are currently not nearly that far. Features Beside all the basic stuff that would you expect from a notepad, we have file sessions, simple templates, recent closed files, and file functions applied to all files, where it makes sense. We have also a pile of advanced text navigation (on braces or blockwise), goto last edit or 10 doc spanning Bookmarks as well as find in files. Advanced undo, line editing (edit functions that take the current line as input), move selected text by mouse or keyboard. Formating funtions like blockformat, align blocks, indenting, commenting ... Documents have several properties like syntax styling, auto indention, tab width, tab use, write protection. View options contain switches for any GUI element and marker for: current line, end of line bytes, right margin, indetion guides, bracehiglighting, line wrap and font. Every menu and toolbar is evaluated from a simple yaml file, so you can change it easily by opening this files from the config menu. ROADMAP Overview Stable Release 0.4 This release was about getting the editor liquid or highly configurable. Its also about improvements in the user interface and of course the little things we missed. It also contains interpreter output panel and a notepad. Stable Release 0.5 This release is about getting Kephra into the world out there and adding feature that are most needed and removing most hindering barriers. Stable Release 0.6 This release will be about extending Kephra internal extentions and Plugins. This Cycle Testing 0.4.1 - code folding Testing 0.4.2 - folding and GUI refined, movable tabs, 2 more tools, doc data Testing 0.4.3 - utf, marker, folding finished, 3 more tools, help links Testing 0.4.4 - new mouse control, 2 more tools, docs updated Testing 0.4.5 - more encodings, config dialog Stable 0.5 - about dialog Future command line vor vi like usage tree lib extention: snippet lib and toolbox in one file browser Plugin API Coding support like L, outlining, help integration, debugger autocompletition and so on will be long time goals. Lets see where they fit in. SUPPORT OS: Linux, Mac and Win32 (Basically same es the module named Wx.) Perl: >= 5.6 (we use our :) ) AUTHORS * Herbert Breunung (main author) * Jens Neuwerk (author of icons, GUI advisor) * Andreas Kaschner (linux and mac ports) * Adam Kennedy (cpanification) * Renee Bäcker Emodule@renee-baecker.deE (color picker) * many more since we study other editors a lot and also the padre sources COPYRIGHT This Copyright applies only to the "Kephra" Perl software distribution, not the icons bundled within. Copyright 2004 - 2010 Herbert Breunung. All rights reserved. This program is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL as you can see in the LICENSE file in same directory or under http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.