A flexible general editor with mixins and plugins, based on wxPython.

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NewEdit Project

First was FlyEdit based on Tcl/Tk, and later became NewEdit based on wxPython.

You can check the Chinese Version of this wiki at NewEditCn.

Description

NewEdit uses Mixin and Plugin technique as its architecture. Most of class can be extended via mixin and plugins components, and finally become an integrity class at creating the instance. So NewEdit is very dynamic. You can write the new feature in new files, and hardly need to modify the existed code. And if you want to extend the existed class, you could write mixins and plugins, and this will be bound the target class that I call them "Slot Class". This techinique will make the changes centralized and easy managed.

Requirements:

• Python 2.3+
• wxPython 2.4.2.4+ Unicode Version

Some plugins may need additional conditions, please read the readme information before installing them.

Objective

Make a clean, powerful, flexible general editor, and even an application framework. And extensibility should be much easily.

Tasks:

• Mixin and Plugin framework
• Unicode support
• User defined plugin management
• User costom window integration

Features

• Cross platform
  • based on wxPython, so it can run anywhere that wxPython works, just like: windows, linux.
  • Unicode support.
• Most features of wxStyledTextCtrl(Scintilla)
  • Syntax highlighting, support Python, c/c++, html, plain text
  • Folding
  • Brace Matching
  • ...
• Extented selection

  • Extended word selection -- You can press Ctrl+MouseDoubleClick to select a word including '.'

  • Matched selection -- Select text in quoted chars like: (), [], {}, '', "".

    • For example: a string just like

              def func(self, 'This is a test'):
                            ^

      The '^' char represents caret position in above line. If you press Ctrl+E, you will select the whole text in (), i.e. "self, 'This is a test'". Something more in Selection Menu.
• Other editing extension
  • Duplicating text -- Just like Vim Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P, and more. You can duplicate above or below char, word, line
    • which match the leading chars.

  • Quoting text -- Add some quoted chars before and after selected text, just as: "", '', (), [], {}, and

    • customized string, etc.

  • Text convertion and view -- python -> html, reStructured Text -> html, textile -> html, and you can output or view

    • the html text in message window, or html view window, or replace the selected text.

  • Auto close -- Can auto close some pair chars, just like: (), [], {}, and even '', "", <>

  • Utf-8 encoding auto detect
  • Changing document encoding
  • Auto backup
  • Last session support -- It'll save all the filenames as closed, and reopen the files as next started.
  • Smart judge the indent char -- It'll auto guess the indent char, and sets it.
  • Finding in files
  • Bookmark support
• Python support

  • build-in python interactive window based on PyShell, support Unicode

  • Auto completion
  • Function syntax calltips
  • Run, run with argument, stop python source
  • Change current path
  • Python class browser
• Snippet codes
  • You can manage your snippet codes by categories, and each category can have many items. Every item will represent a snippet codes. You can insert an item just double-click on item. Even support import and export.
• Simple project support
  • Can new, save a project. Can add, delete, add all, import filename into project.
• Extension mechanism

  • Script -- You can write easy script to manipulate the all resource of NewEdit, just like: text conversion, etc.

  • Plugin -- Customized function. More complex but more powerful. Can easily merge with NewEdit, and can be

    • managed via menu.
  • Shell command -- Add offen used shell command, and execute them.
• Ftp support
  • You can edit remote files through ftp. You can add, rename, delete, upload, download file/directory.
• Mutillanguage support
  • Current support two languages: English and Chinese, which can be auto detect.
• Shipped plugins(must be configed as used them before)

  • Blog editor -- You can use NewEdit to edit your blog, currently test against PyBlosxom.

  • Document links -- Python document and wxPython document.

More features are adding...

Documents

• [http://newedit.tigris.org/index.htm online document]

Download

Project CVS [http://newedit.tigris.org In Tigris]

The newest version download:

• current snapshot version attachment:newedit_snapshot.zip 2004/11/27 updated

• 2.8 release 1 Windows version attachment:NewEdit2.8.exe

• 2.8 release 1 Source attachment:newedit_2.8r1.zip

• 2.7 release 2 Windows version attachment:NewEdit2.7r2.exe

• 2.7 release 2 Source attachment:newedit_2.7r2.zip

ScreenShot

Visit: NewEditScreenShot

Contribute

Some people have write there own plugins, and have shared them. This is a collection, you can visit the link if you like:

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FAQ

1. How to get the newest source code from cvs

   You can visit [http://www.donews.net/limodou/archive/2004/09/27/112184.aspx How to get the newest source code from cvs]. Or visit http://newedit.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectSource and follow the instructions.