03/16/2010

Happy New Year! RText 1.1.0 has been released, and here's what's new:

• Added "external tool" support. Similar to Eclipse, this allows you to define and run external processes, and get their output in a docked window.
• Improved "Tasks" support. The user can now define what words denote "tasks" in the options menu.
• Improved ctrl+arrow key navigation in the text editor (now works like Eclipse) as well as word selection when double-clicking with the mouse.
• Added an option to show EOL markers in the editor.
• Fixed exception thrown when spell-checking plain text.
• Code cleanup and simplification, especially of "plugin" architecture.
• Fixed a handful of smaller bugs.
• Updated translations: Turkish (Burak), Dutch (Roel), Brazilian Portuguese (Marcos), Spanish (Rafael), Arabic (Linostar), Simplified Chinese (Sunquan).
• Added Polish translation (thanks Maciej!).

RText is a powerful, cross-platform programmer's text editor written in Java. It is designed to be easy to use, highly customizable and flexible.

RText is released under the GNU General Public License. Part of RText's design is for the source code to be simple, easy to understand, and well documented, so that other programmers can look into its inner-workings and figure out how RText ticks with ease. A good place to start (besides the source code) is the Javadoc for all classes used in the project.

If you download and try out RText, I'd really love to hear your feedback, positive and negative. Please send your comments/bugs/feature requests through the project's SourceForge page.