Project JuffEd blog

(Probably) The last post in this blog :)

2010-04-16T08:10:00.000-07:00

Don't worry: the project JuffEd and JuffEd Plugins are doing well (I'd say excellent), I'm just not that good in blogging as I thought I was :)

The development process is going on (there were more than 130 commits within a last month, diff size is 1.3 MB and more than 7 thousand lines). You can follow the newest updates on our Twitter http://twitter.com/JuffEd and check our web-site: http://juffed.com/

Cheers!

Fix for QScintilla - 2

2009-11-05T20:02:00.000-08:00

Regarding my fix for QScintilla (problem with auto-complete, described here): there's also patched QScintilla for Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" here.

Fix for QScintilla

2009-10-16T18:42:00.000-07:00

For those of you who is annoyed by QScintilla's bug with autocomplete (when using Linux and GNOME, and probably some other WMs), here's something you can do.

First of all you can download the patched package for Ubuntu 9.04 (i386) and install it. That's it, now your auto-complete is working.

For other Debian-based distros you can patch it yourself:

Install building environment:

$ sudo aptitude install dpatch cdbs fakeroot build-essential

Get sources of QScintilla and step into its source dir:

$ apt-get source libqscintilla2-3
$ cd qscintilla2-2.3.2

Download deb-patch from here and put it to debian/patches directory:

$ cd debian/patches
$ wget -nd http://juffed.googlecode.com/files/03_autocomplete.dpatch
$ echo "03_autocomplete" >> 00list
$ cd ../..

Install all necessary dependencies:

$ sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev python-all-dev sip4 python-sip4 python-sip4-dev python-qt4-dev python-qt4

and start building

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Now you have you own patched QScintilla built. Install it:

$ sudo dpkg -i ../libqscintilla2-3_2.3.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

For those who doesn't use Debian-based distro here is a normal patch here.

Twitter

2009-09-16T18:39:00.000-07:00

If you want to be aware of all recent updates please follow JuffEd's twitter: http://twitter.com/juffed

New features

2009-04-18T22:52:00.000-07:00

Well, there is a short overview of new features that will be available in the next release:

basic block typing
commenting/uncommenting text blocks with hotkey
'Go to matching brace' and 'Select to matching brace' actons
configuration of syntax highlighting associations
setting the default font and background color in settings dialog
setting the current line's color in syntax scheme
combo-boxes (instead of line edits) in find/replace dialog (with history)
option 'Whole words only' in find/replace dialog
option 'Case sensitive' for auto-completion

Also several small improvements:

zoom in/zoom out with ctrl+mouse wheel
having selected text in find/replace dialog (if it was a single line selection)
'Close tab' button on tab-bar, closing tab with double-click, action 'Close' in tab's context menu
creating a new tab with double-click on tab-bar

All these features need to be tested, so you're very welcome with bugreports. Bug tracker is on its old place: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=205470&atid=993768 :)

JuffEd 0.6.1: bugfix release

2009-04-17T08:57:00.000-07:00

There were several bugs fixed after 0.6.0 release:

Fixed: updating charset name in statusbar
Fixed: bug with comments in JavaScript highlighting
Fixed: bug with freezing when replacing an empty string
Hopefully fixed bug with lost focus after closing a document
Hopefully fixed troubles with building on FreeBSD
Fixed: configuring in non-English locales
Added: link to home page to 'About' dialog
Fixed: locale detection on Windows

JuffEd and Twitter

2009-04-15T09:58:00.000-07:00

Now you can follow the latest project news on Twitter: http://twitter.com/juffed

JuffEd 0.6.0 release

2009-04-08T09:55:00.000-07:00

It is out!

Main changes:

splittable document view
using icons installed in system (on Linux/BSD)
changing line endings (auto-detection and manual changing)
auto-detection of syntax highlighting based on document's first line (for some file types)
displaying of invisible symbols (tabs, spaces, line wraps)
context menu for status bar (syntax, charset, line endings)
improved and more powerful plugin API
CMake syntax highlighting
Chinese (Simplified) localization
new application icon
added icons of sizes 16 and 24 to the default icon theme (got rid of blured icons)
many small UI improvements

Also it's decided to take a new version numeration style: now odd numbers (0.5, 0.7, ...) mean development versions, even numbers (0.6, 0.8, ...) mean stable releases.

JuffEd 0.5 beta 1

2009-03-20T08:12:00.000-07:00

All right, it's time to let it go. In addition to already announced new features it has improved and more powerful plugin API (much easier to use in comparison to version 0.4), fixed some bugs, a little bit cleaner code and a new icon (thanks to "SoftIcon").

JuffEd 0.5: 2 weeks of development

2009-03-18T19:23:00.000-07:00

Here are the results of 2 weeks of development:
7965 lines added, 4654 lines removed, patch size 658K. Just kidding ;)
One the one hand, it's true and these are actual results of

$ svn diff -r 250:HEAD > diff.diff $ grep "^+.*" diff.diff | grep -v "+++" | wc -l 7965 $ grep "^\-.*" diff.diff | grep -v "\-\-\-" | wc -l 4654

but 1) I re-used lots of code from 0.4; and 2) diff includes everything, including localization files and files that were moved.

Total amount of lines of code (.h and .cpp files) is 11418 for now (version 0.4 has 9234 lines). Now it has the same functionality as 0.4 plus some new features:

using system icons
splittable document view
line endings (auto-detection and manual changing)
auto-detection of syntax highlighting based on document's first line (for some file types)
displaying of invisible symbols (tabs, spaces, line wraps)
context menu for status bar (syntax, charset, line endings)
Chinese (Simplified) localization
lots of minor but pleasant changes (tooltips for tabs, scrolling docs with mouse wheel on tabbar, new menu organization, etc.)

Also plugin API was significantly improved (still in development).

JuffEd 0.5 progress

2009-03-04T19:58:00.000-08:00

Well, I'm making a good progress:
- making a backup copy
- printing
- document reload
are ready :)

These ones:
- single instance
- checking for external file changes
- status bar
are for tomorrow.

Auto-saving is probably better to do as a plugin.

JuffEd 0.5 is started

2009-03-04T14:24:00.001-08:00

Yes, I've finally done that: trunk branch now contains development version of version 0.5. What's new? Lots of things.
First of all there are huge architecture changes. Now JuffEd uses a conception of engines, and it will be possible to have documents of different types opened at the same time: plain text, rich text, etc. Each type of documents has its own set of menus and toolbars and its own plugins.
One engine is already implemented: it's a QScintilla engine. It kept all the features from version 0.4 and has a new one: now you can split your document and have two working areas one above another.
One more significant change is that now you can use icon themes installed on your system.
Also I moved to CMake building system (thanks to David Stegbauer from Pardus Linux team), see the file README for building instructions.
Please note that this is a first draft, so there is a list of old features that are not implemented yet, but I'm working on it:
- making a backup copy
- single instance
- checking for external file changes
- auto-saving
- printing
- document reload
- status bar

JuffEd for Maemo

2009-01-28T18:33:00.000-08:00

I'm a happy owner of Nokia N810 and of course I MUST have been tried to install JuffEd to it :)

I've found a ready package for Maemo (quite old version, but anyway it's a good step to start with). It had a problem with dependencies (Libqt4-core instead of libqt4-core), but I've re-packaged it.
To install it you need Qt4 library installed. I had to follow these steps to do it (probably there is an easier way :))
First of all I've added Qt4 repository (just follow this link with your tablet). But I couldn't find Qt4 libraries in package manager. So I logged in as a root to my tablet using ssh and installed it manually:

# apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui

That's it. Now you can install JuffEd. You can find it here.

P.S.: please keep in mind that when I was writing JuffEd I didn't think it will be used at internet tablets with this tiny resolution ;)

P.P.S.:

JuffEd 0.4 release

2008-10-27T18:29:00.000-07:00

It's finally released!

The whole list of changes:
* Added: plugins support
* Added: autocomplete
* Added: printing
* Added: context menu for document tab
* Added: processing of read-only files
* Added: zoom in and zoom out (increase and decrease font)
* Improved: serach using regexps
* Fixed: now we have current file's directory at 'Save as' dialog
* Fixed: bug with repeated replacements if replacing text contains the replaceable one as a substring
* Fixed: restoring cursor position after reloading
* Added: RPM spec file
* Added: checking for g++ to configure file
* Added: highlighting for Batch files
* Moved PHP scheme out of HTML scheme (now it's a separate scheme)

Enjoy!

JuffEd 0.4 beta 2 is out

2008-10-14T18:43:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a long time of using beta 1 and now it's a good time to have beta 2 released. As for me, it's stable enough to be released, but I don't believe there's no bugs in it :)
Let's see. Bugreports are extremely welcomed!

Branch 0.4 splitted

2008-10-13T17:34:00.000-07:00

Ok, it was a little bit longer than I planned, but finaly I resumed my work on JuffEd.
Branch 0.4 was splitted to get stabilized while 'trunk' version is becoming '0.5-svn' for adding new features.

Error in Mandriva package.

2008-09-08T09:25:00.000-07:00

Due to an error in Mandriva rpm, please download the correct (updated) one: juffed-0.4.beta1-3mdv2008.1.i586.rpm

Sorry for any inconvenience....

JuffEd 0.4 beta 1 is available

2008-09-07T12:17:00.000-07:00

Finally it hapened. Now it's good enough (for me) to consider it as a new version :)

What is new?

First of all plugin support was added. Now JuffEd's functionality can be extended with plugins. For now only two of them available: Documents List and Find In Files and both of them are in "proof of concept" and "pre-alpha" stage, but still quite usable and waiting for you to improve them ;)
You can find more information here:
http://juffed-plugins.blogspot.com
and here:
http://code.google.com/p/juffed-plugins/

Another thing that was added is autocomplete. It can use words from current document and/or words from given dictionary, so called "API file".

Other features that were added:
* printing
* correct handling of read-only files
* context menu for document's tab (for copying file name or file path to clipboard)
* zooming in and out (increasing and decreasing font of the current document)
* improved regexp replacing (using \1, \2 in replacing text)
* other small features and fixes

Enjoy!

Plugins for JuffEd

2008-08-10T10:47:00.000-07:00

Since version 0.4 JuffEd supports plugins. For now 0.4 version is only available at SVN and plugins API possible can be changed, but basic things are defined. Each plugin can add a dock widget, toolbar and menu to application's main menu. It can interact with documents (open, close, etc.) and current document's text (move cursor, insert text, ...). I'll publish a small tutorial and an example a bit later.

For more details about plugins see http://juffed-plugins.blogspot.com/