pbnkp / redcar

A cross-platform programmer's editor written in Ruby.

{Redcar}

http://redcareditor.com/

DESCRIPTION

A Ruby text editor.

• written in Ruby from the ground up
• runs on JRuby (a fast, compatible Ruby implementation)
• is cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)
• highly extensible

Some Redcar features:

• supports Textmate themes and snippets
• split screen mode
• syntax checking for many languages
• built in REPLs for Ruby, Groovy, Clojure and Mirah.

Some (current) limitations:

• Only supports UTF-8 file encodings (and therefore ASCII)

INSTALLATION

$ gem install redcar

for more details, see User Guide: Installation

USAGE

Run

$ redcar --help

To see full usage details.

PROBLEMS?

• Irc at #redcar on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/redcar-editor

LICENSE

Redcar is copyright 2007-2012 Daniel Lucraft and contributors. It is licensed under the GPLv2. See the included LICENSE file for details.