Goodbye

Hey folks,

I'm sorry to say that but now it's certain: I stop working on JuffEd.

It's been good years, and I was happy working on it. There were ups and downs, challenges and great ideas, and of course lots of FUN! But now I'm moving on to new projects and new exciting things in my life.

I want to thank all the contributors, regardless of their input: whether it was a coded feature, a plugin, a patch, a translation, a bug report, or a feature request. It's your support that made JuffEd what it currently is.

I'll be happy if there are good hands to pick up the project and keep it going.

Sincerely yours,
Mikhail Murzin.

(Probably) The last post in this blog :)

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

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

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

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

New features

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

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