/snaked

Minimalist editor inspired by Scribes

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Snaked v0.5 status

Here is some brief highlights for v0.5 development progress.

Changes from v0.4 (implemented already)

  • Snaked was refactored with uxie. It means some important features:
    • All user interaction is divided into contexts (there is only one context in v0.4 -- editor) which defines current set of allowed actions and its shortcuts.
    • Possible actions can be discovered with a menu. There is no need to remember all keys anymore.
    • Flexible shortcut mapping: many keys to one action, one key to multiple actions, keybindings for popup menus and for dynamic actions (for example one can assign shortcut to external tool!).
    • Shortcut conflict resolution.
    • Feedback messages stack.
  • Multiple windows (each with own editor set).
  • Multiple editor views for one buffer (yes, editor tab can be detached or moved between windows).
  • Search within multiple projects in quick open.
  • Editor contexts can be nested, defined globally, for session and for project.
  • Changed external tools config format, now it is a plain python file with a simple eDSL. External tools also can be configured globally and for session.
  • Python plugin:
    • Dropped rope support in favor of supplement.
    • Py3 support.
    • Py3 support in test runner.
    • Python interpreter selector.

What should be done before v0.5 release

  • Snippets preferences.
  • Nested snippets configs.
  • Dynamic external tool contexts (via shell scripts and python functions).
  • Ability to spawn external tools on editor events (for example on-save).
  • Encoding editor context.
  • Encoding selector when chardet fails.
  • use_tabs context

How to install and try v0.5dev?

Install requirements:

pip install -e git://github.com/baverman/uxie#egg=uxie
pip install -e git://github.com/baverman/supplement#egg=supplement
pip-3.2 install -e git://github.com/baverman/supplement@py3#egg=supplement

Last command is needed only for py3 support.

Then:

pip install -e git://github.com/baverman/snaked#egg=snaked

You need to know only two keys:

  • F1 to popup a root menu.
  • F2 to edit shortcuts for selected menu item (and remember, you can assign key to ANY menu item).

I'll appreciate your help in dev version testing before release.

Contacts:

Snaked

Very light and minimalist editor inspired by Scribes. Snaked intended mostly for python developers but other Scribes users may find it useful too.

Shortly, Snaked is Scribes with blackjack & hookers.

Documentation

May be found at http://packages.python.org/snaked/index.html Current docs are a some sort of outdated and match 0.4.6 version. Work in progress.

Features

  • Light UI. There are no menu, tool bar, status bar or project browser at all. Only editor view itself.
  • gtksourceview2 based.
  • Keyboard oriented control.
  • Auto projects. In most cases you do not need such boring operation like File → New project. Just start edit your file.
  • Project navigation via Quick Open dialog.
  • Sessions to store last opened editors.
  • Restoring last edit position.
  • Python auto complete and navigation via rope with very flexible type hinting framework. PyGtk, Django support.
  • Basic python code lint via pyflakes.
  • Snippets.
  • Unittests (with py.test as backend, so there is support for usual UnitTest cases, nose cases and py.test itself).
  • Spell check.

Current status

Current progress may be seen in @a_bobrov. Also there is blog with release announces.

ToDo

  • Variables completion in Mako, Jinja, Django templates.
  • REPL