On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Jeff Wheeler <wheel...@illinois.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm very excited to announce the first release of Yi since last > summer. It is relatively light on new features, but it finally should > compile nicely on friendly machines. This means, for the most part, > machines with the latest Haskell Platform installed. (Windows, > unfortunately, has not been tested all that much. See details below, > though, for install info.)
Sweet!!! time to start hacking some more. I've got a half-finished java syntax file in the works :-) > > ## What's new? > > * New vte UI. This is a terminal UI inside a GUI, much like gvim. It > depends on Gtk2Hs for the GUI, and then launches the vty UI inside the > terminal. > * Compatibility with the latest Haskell Platform release > * Start yi-contrib package. We intend to move more stuff here, to > clean up the core yi package. > * We're now on GitHub (and mirrored on Google Code)! See below for info. > > ## What's Yi? > > Yi is a text editor written in Haskell and extensible in Haskell. The > long-term goal of the Yi project is to provide the editor of choice > for Haskell programmers. > > Yi now works relatively well in the terminal, using the vty package, > and also has Gtk frontends using vte (which interfaces with the > terminal interface) and a Pango frontend. There is also a Cocoa > frontend under (slow) development. > > ## Installation > > Using cabal install: > > $ cabal update > $ cabal install yi > > The default UI depends on the vty package, which will only compile > with the ncurses development headers available. On Ubuntu, you need to > install the `libncurses5-dev` package. > > On Windows, you'll need to disable the default vty terminal UI, and > use a Gtk UI instead (the vte UI requires vty, so you can't install > that either): > > $ cabal install yi -f-vty -fpango > > (Windows support is not well-tested, though.) > > Optionally also install the contrib package: > > $ cabal install yi-contrib > > ## Features > > * A purely functional editor core > * Key-bindings written as parsers of the input > * Emacs, Vim and (partial) Cua emulations provided by default > * Console front-end (Gtk2Hs and Cocoa front-ends in development) > * Static configuration (XMonad style) for fast load > * Haskell support: > * Lexical highlighting and (unicode-based) beautification. > * Layout-aware parenthesis-matching > * Auto-indentation > * cabal-build within the editor > * Syntax highlighting for a number of other languages (latex, python, perl, > ...) > > ## More Info > > Read the README [1] on GitHub for more information. The source code > [2] is also hosted there. > > ## Credits > > This release is brought to you by: > > * Alexey Levan > * Gwern Branwen > * Issac Trotts > * Jean-Philippe Bernardy > * Jeff Wheeler > * Jeremy Wall > * Maciej Piechotka > * Malte Sommerkorn > > and all the contributors to the previous versions. > > Also, Yi would not exist without all the work put into the Haskell platform. > > [1] https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/blob/master/README.md > [2] https://github.com/yi-editor/yi > > -- > Jeff Wheeler > > Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > -- > Yi development mailing list > yi-devel@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel > -- Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
