A flexible, general editor with mixins and plugins, which uses 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 its classes can be extended via mixin and plugin components, and finally become an integrity class at creating the instance. So NewEdit is very dynamic. You can write the new features in new files, and hardly need to modify the existing code. And if you want to extend the existing classes, you could write mixins and plugins, and this will be bound to the target class that I call "Slot Class". This technique will make the changes centralized and easily managed.

Requirements:

• Python 2.3+
• wxPython 2.4.2.4+ Unicode Version

Some plugins may have additional requirements, please read the readme information before installing them.

Objective

Make a clean, powerful, flexible general editor, and even an application framework. And adding extensions should be very easy.

Tasks:

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

Features

• Cross platform
  • based on wxPython, so it can run anywhere that wxPython works, such as: Windows, Linux.
  • Unicode support.
• Most features of wxStyledTextCtrl(Scintilla)
  • Syntax highlighting, support Python, c/c++, html, plain text
  • Folding
  • Brace Matching
  • ...
• Extended 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

  • built-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
• Code snippets
  • You can manage your code snippets with categories, and each category can have many items. Every item will represent a code snippet. You can insert an item just by double-clicking on it. It even supports importing and exporting.
• Simple project support
  • Can create new, save a project. Can add, delete, add all, import files into projects.
• 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 often used shell commands, and execute them.
• Ftp support
  • You can edit remote files through ftp. You can add, rename, delete, upload, download file/directory.
• Multilanguage support
  • Currently supports two languages: English and Chinese, which can be auto-detected.
• Shipped plugins(must be configed as used them before)

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

  • Document links -- Python documentation and wxPython documentation.

More features are in development...

Documents

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

Download

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

NewEdit introduce powerpoint attachment:NewEdit.ppt

The newest version download:

• lastest source version attachment:newedit_2.9.zip 2005/7/24 updated

• lastest EXE version attachment:NewEdit2.9.exe 2005/7/24 updated

• current snapshot version attachment:newedit_2.9.zip 2005/7/24 updated

• current EXE snapshot version attachment:NewEdit2.9.exe 2005/7/24 updated

ScreenShot

Visit: NewEditScreenShot

Contribute

Some people have written their own plugins, and have shared them. This is a collection, visit the links 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.