[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Yi 0.4.1

[Paulo Tanimoto]

Fantastic release, thank you!  It's never been so easy to start
playing with Yi.  : )

Paulo

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Jean-Philippe Bernardy
<jeanphilippe.bernardy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very pleased to announce the 0.4.1 release of the Yi editor.
>
> == Yi ==
> Yi is a text editor written and extensible in Haskell. The
> long-term goal of the Yi project is to provide the editor of
> choice for Haskell programmers. In the meantime, we have fun by
> hacking an editor in a decent language :)
>
> Yi is not a finished product. This is an alpha-quality release.
> However, Yi has become a lot more accessible than
> previously, so if you feel like testing it, now might be a good time
> to take a look.
>
> == Installation ==
>
> Using cabal install:
>
>  cabal install yi-0.4.1
>
> If you want gtk support, first install gtk2hs 0.9.13.
> If you want vty support, pass the -fvty option to cabal install.
>
> == Features ==
>    * A purely functional editor core;
>    * Key-bindings written as parsers of the input;
>    * Emacs, Vim and (partial) Cua emulations provided by default;
>    * Vty, Gtk2Hs, and (experimental) Cocoa front-ends;
>    * Static configuration (XMonad style) for fast load;
>    * Simple Haskell support:
>        * Syntax highlighting
>        * Auto-indentation
>        * Call cabal-build within the editor
>
> == Links ==
>    * download: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/yi
>    * FAQ: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi/FAQ
>    * homepage: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi
>    * check and report issues: http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/list
>    * darcs repository: http://code.haskell.org/yi
>    * get involved: mailto:yi-devel at googlegroups.com
>    * release notes: http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/wiki/ReleaseNotes0o4
>
> == Acks ==
>
> This release is brought to you by:
>
> Allan Clark
> Andrew Birkett
> Corey O'Connor
> Duncan Coutts
> Evan Martin
> Fraser Wilson
> Gustav Munkby
> Gwern Branwen
> Jean-Philippe Bernardy
> Krasimr Angelov
> Nicolas Pouillard
> Sean Leather
> Thomas Schilling
>
> and all the contributors to the previous versions.
>
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