Intype Alpha 0.2.1 Released

posted by Martin Cohen in Releases | February 7th, 2007 |

One month has passed since the first release (0.2.0) and now we have a big new update to the Alpha 1 Stage. There are many new features, some that I’ve already mentioned in the “pervious post” and some new ones.

Here’s the complete list of highlights:

  • Undo/Redo
  • Reload Bundles — A huge help for bundle creators. Bundles can now be reloaded directly from the Intype UI, there’s no need to restart the whole application.
  • CJK Support — Support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean over-the-spot input methods. I’d like to send a big thanks to Mr. Masahide Morio for teaching me the basics of Japanese.
  • Tab/Space Switch Level 1 — Includes switching between hard and soft tabs (tab chars versus spaces). Conversions and automatic detection are planned for Level 2, that will be released as and update to 0.2.1.
  • Drag/Drop File Support Level 1 — In response to many user requests. Level 1 supports dragging/dropping files to open. More to come with scripting support
  • Editing Features — Move line(s) up and down; Duplicate line(s); Transpose characters; Vertical scrolling with keyboard; New variables for snippets.

This new release also includes the Perl, Python, and YAML bundles, though they are still experimental (we are hoping for help from more experienced users). There’s a completely new reStructuredText bundle from kib2, new snippets for the C bundle from idyllrain and many small updates and bug-fixes from other contributors from the Intype community.

We are establishing a contributors community that will maintain the open bundles repository. If you are interested, and you have regular expression experience or experience with languages that are not supported yet, feel free to join us at the forums.

Download and Release Notes for Intype Alpha 0.2.1

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  • 1 Patrick | 07.02.2007 at 1:00 pm

    Great Release,

    but implent a search in the next release :)
    And NO multi doc view.. thats not textmate :)

    But keep up the good work!

  • 2 MJ | 07.02.2007 at 1:05 pm

    Ok, now this is workable. Now only one more thing and I’m sold: Tabs!
    Great work!

  • 3 Cyberdeeder | 07.02.2007 at 3:47 pm

    Totally agree with MJ ! Keep up the good work :)

  • 4 Pipo Lambert | 07.02.2007 at 4:36 pm

    We’re getting closer! Congrats, Martin and Team.

    I like the addition of RSS comments - it’s a good sign to see you innovate like this

  • 5 Avinash | 07.02.2007 at 4:54 pm

    You did it!

    And now I can use this as my full-time editor!

    Brilliant work!

  • 6 Yarden | 07.02.2007 at 5:44 pm

    GOOD JOB!

  • 7 abilstein | 07.02.2007 at 6:01 pm

    Great work! Keep it up. :)

  • 8 WhiteHat | 07.02.2007 at 6:33 pm

    Yeah, really great, but tabs … you know … we need it.

  • 9 Naser | 07.02.2007 at 7:22 pm

    Great stuff. I’ve already started to love your O’ so Web 2.0-ish Texmate alternative ^_^ Looking forward for a tabbed interface and the option to create custom bundles (or can anyone tell me if that is aleady possible?)

  • 10 Martin Cohen | 07.02.2007 at 7:43 pm

    Naser: Yes, this is possible. :) Try to ask at forums…

  • 11 Tarellel | 08.02.2007 at 2:54 am

    Wow, great job guys!!! Even in early development, I can already say InType is by far my favorite TextEditor. And I can’t wait to see what they will ad in next.

  • 12 mjb. | 08.02.2007 at 6:05 pm

    word wrap, find and replace, tabs and then you can start charging me for this.

  • 13 2nice | 09.02.2007 at 11:58 am

    Ow… no word wrap… that was a shocker after a code copy&paste… no find and replace is a disaster with large files to edit and having “undo / redo” as a highlight… that is kinda pathetic.

    Moving back to Notepad++ for Windows…

  • 14 Alexander Graf | 09.02.2007 at 6:38 pm

    Nice, that’s it. Last time Martin said he was glad to know that I was about to use Intype as my main text editor on Windows. Well, now I do.

    Actually there are only three things I miss at the moment, and I can get by without them for a while:

    - Search / Replace with Regexp
    - Multiple Files (tabs, projects)
    - A button in the status bar (like TextMate has) which allows quick access to the commands and snippets of the currently selected bundle.

    But as I said, i can get by without them for a while.

    Great work guys!

  • 15 Long Nguyen | 13.02.2007 at 10:00 pm

    Excellent! Next step: find/replace.

  • 16 thiago | 14.02.2007 at 3:58 pm

    Congratulations, very good job. Now tabs and project is more need.

    thx

  • 17 Anonymous coward | 14.02.2007 at 11:42 pm

    Not free? Not opensource? Not interested.

  • 18 Shaun | 15.02.2007 at 10:38 am

    Hey, is it just me or does it not have support horizontal scrolling or wordwrap?

    Great work so far guys :)

  • 19 Pablo | 15.02.2007 at 11:10 am

    Now this is what i have been waiting for. EXCELLENT WORK.

  • 20 Eleo | 16.02.2007 at 4:28 am

    Undo/redo is a good edition. Please continue to advance toward awesome.

  • 21 Bram | 19.02.2007 at 11:42 am

    Yup find/replace and project/tabs are definatly the most desirable features still missing.

  • 22 Pollopera | 21.02.2007 at 5:57 pm

    Do you thing to integrate support for M$ languages (like ASP, C#, etc..) in future versions¿?

  • 23 Martin Cohen | 21.02.2007 at 6:50 pm

    Pollopera: There’s no such thing as integration. Just try to ask at forums, I think that there are people that already requested the same languages.

  • 24 The_Poet677 | 23.02.2007 at 10:51 pm

    Gotta say it. I found the link to Intype oon 43 things about two months ago, and have been using it since. I like it alot. Good job, folks.

  • 25 .Dani | 27.02.2007 at 2:29 am

    Weird no one mentioned it yet (or it for some reason just doesn’t work on both my PC & laptop): automatically indent after a { and put the } at the right height.

    For example, take the code:

    public class GreatWork {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(”Intype is great!”);
    }
    }

    When this code is written in Intype (language obviously set to Java), you get:
    public class GreatWork {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(”Intype is great!”);
    }
    }

    This is the only text editor that has done that pretty much. Auto-indent is one of the most needed features for any programmer.. It’s kinda annoying to keep using TAB and backspace to correctly position { & }

    As for the rest, I totally love it’s simple layout, way to go :D!

  • 26 .Dani | 27.02.2007 at 2:31 am

    Heh that’s just great, layout gone… The original code had to read (hope it works this time):

    public class GreatWork {
    (INDENT) public static void main(String[] args) {
    (INDENT)(INDENT) System.out.println(”Intype is great!”);
    (INDENT) }
    }

  • 27 Martin Cohen | 27.02.2007 at 11:48 am

    .Dani: Autoindent is requested as feature at forums and will be implemented as well as paired characters.

  • 28 .Dani | 27.02.2007 at 3:12 pm

    Thank you very much, I didn’t see it at the feature requests so I thought I might ask. Keep up the good work!

  • 29 killywilly | 02.03.2007 at 12:30 pm

    i think u guys got competition h**p://www.e-texteditor.com/index.html.
    just wanted to let u know…

  • 30 twe4ked | 04.03.2007 at 4:04 pm

    hey,

    great release guys.

    “…implent a search in the next release…”

    this feature would be awsome, could you please look into having it similar to the firefox search function (ctrl + f).

    Thanks again.

  • 31 Abe | 04.03.2007 at 8:13 pm

    Is there a posibility to make a Intype portable edition?

  • 32 Martin Cohen | 05.03.2007 at 2:17 pm

    Abe: In this phase we will not focus on portability. But we are counting on it after getting to beta or final release stage.

    twe4ked: Search is planned for 0.2.3 release. Next major release (0.2.2) will introduce multi-document features. We have to stick with our roadmap to keep better sync within the team and smooth progress in this early stage. This week we will release a minor release for current 0.2.1 with bugfixes and features that has been postponed for major 0.2.1.

  • 33 hotdamn!!! | 07.03.2007 at 7:59 pm

    never seen a text editor as sexy as this one. Waiting for purchase time. :D

  • 34 Brandon | 07.03.2007 at 11:39 pm

    I love it! This is a coder’s dream!

    Thank you for you hard labor

  • 35 Paul Anthony | 10.03.2007 at 8:13 am

    I look forward to the final version. :) I shall be buying.

  • 36 Furies | 17.03.2007 at 7:51 pm

    Wow, amazing, I can have Textmate on both machines! There is a god!

  • 37 steven m s | 16.04.2007 at 6:51 am

    i have been using .2 and really like it. even made it portable, works fine. thanks.

  • 38 Anonymous coward | 21.04.2007 at 9:41 am

    Add please in Intype c# language

 

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Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response.

It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins. It makes development in any programming or scripting language quick and easy.

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