yaedit: yet another editor

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yaedit-0.6.py

You will need to Python and PyGTK.

yaedit is my rather minimal programmer's editor, based on gtkSourceView. It's been designed to suit my development style, which involves very rapid iterations. My preferred "IDE" is yaedit and a tabbed Gnome terminal window. Anything more is too cluttered.

Keys

Yaedit can teach you most of its available keyboard shortcuts by itself. Here are the ones that it currently can't:

Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Shift-Z - undo/redo
Ctrl-X Ctrl-C Ctrl-V - cut/copy/paste
Enter (from within line/find/prefix entries) - return to editing
Enter (from within open entry) - open file

Features

Doesn't have:

Save. Every edit is saved immediately.

An option to set the bloody tab size and screw up your indenting. Tabs are 8 spaces, get over it.

A jump-to-line dialog box.

A find dialog box.

In fact, does not have any dialog boxes.

Menus or ugly icons that take up precious screen real-estate.

Auto-insert boilerplate text. If you find yourself needing this feature, then here's a nickel. Go get yourself a real language, kid.

Does have:

Editable current line number display.

Selection prefix editing to easily indent, unindent, comment out blocks.

Tabbed editing. Tabs are down the left hand side, so there is room for lots of open files. (This does take a little more space than having them at the top. I ameliorate this somewhat by sticking what controls there are below the tabs.)

Planned/wanted:

Send me patches, I reserve the right to reject them. ;-)

This editor is my testbed for UI idioms that have both the learnability of GUI and the efficiency of older idioms.

Reload from disk when disk changes (for example due to a "svn up")

A way to shrink the font size of indentation whitespace (like changing the tab size, only not broken)

Python console

Shell filtering