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This beta release fixes a few bugs in the previous release, notably problems with the indentation and commenting code, problem with the statusbar, join lines removes indentation whitespace from the next line.

All small fixes, this will probably be the last beta release.

This beta release fixes a few bugs that cropped up in the earlier release, including status bars showing up in the wrong location, the find dialog always searching from the top of the window when you clear the input, and not querying the user when closing the window when files with unsaved changes exist.

This will probably be the last beta release before 0.6 final is released.

The first beta of Pallavi 0.6 is now available for download. The major improvement in this release is support for multiple top-level editor Windows -- by popular demand (in fact, three different people requested this!).

In addition, this release features an Abbreviations plugin, actions for indenting, dedenting, commenting, uncommenting and joining lines, search previous in Incremental Find, a more generic menubar (thanks barebones), hopefully better Windows support, and a few bug fixes and improvements.... read more

A lot of users were having trouble with the Pallavi installer under Windows. The reason is that the original installer was created for Python 2.5. There are now separate Windows installers for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 users under Windows.

The Pallavi 0.5 final release is finally here. This release pulls Pallavi out of the notepad domain through the text editor domain, and pokes its nose into the IDE domain. All without compromising the original simplicity if that's all you want.

This release supports better macro management, "IDE-style" docking areas for plugin windows, integration of default plugins, a statusbar (optional, of course), and a host of bugfixes.

This second beta of Pallavi 0.5 fixes several bugs (none of them showstoppers) in the IODialog, StatusBar, and Find and Replace.

The Pallavi 0.5 beta release features a fairly important rewrite of the core that allows docking of plugin windows. Many plugins have been revised and improved and the whole editor is much more responsive and elegant now.

It is now possible to write plugins that make Pallavi behave as a complete IDE, and more than just a simple text editor. This is an important milestone release; I would like to see the beta well-tested, as I intend to make this a fairly public release. So testers, welcome!!

I've pushed out the final release of Pallavi 0.4.
It is easier to run under Windows, comes with a Windows installer, contains bugfixes in the 'recent documents' plugin, and provides the ability to execute macros stored in files.

With the 0.4 release, Pallavi is now a text editor to be reckoned with. Hope you enjoy the release.

Pallavi 0.4b1 has been released. Its more useable than ever. Notable improvements include:

-New BufferTabs plugin enabled by default
-Ability to open multiple files and open files from the command line
-A built-in lexer for CSS
-External plugins for Recent documents and Bookmarks
-Rudimentary autoindent plugin

I've created a Debian package for use on Debian derived Linux distributions including Ubuntu. The package isn't wholly tested, but it works well under the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta.

Pallavi users are welcome to submit packages for other operating systems. Arch Linux users will be happy to know that Pallavi is available in the Arch User Repository (http://aur.archlinux.org).

Basu was kind enough to provide a new site design and some nice graphics for the Pallavi home page. I've uploaded the new template and am very pleased with the results. Thanks Basu!

Pallavi 0.3 has been released. Much of the development is internal and forgotten. Some of the new features include a simple Find/Replace dialog, a simple plugin installation mechanism, plugin syntax highlighting, and a rudimentary class navigation plugin designed more for example purposes than for real use, so far.

Try it and let me know what you think.

Majikstreet (http://majikstreet.org/) has contributed a Win32 installer for Pallavi. Apparently it doesn't install the config file on first run, but if you do this manually, you may find it works. Or it may not, its somewhat untested! Bug reports and patches from Windows users will be more than welcome.

The release of 0.2 has been made, tested well on Arch Linux and Ubuntu Linux, and a few bugs have been fixed to make Pallavi run on Windows. The new release is a complete rewrite since 0.1. Pallavi now depends on WXPython instead of PyGtk, and is a lot more stable than the previous version. It also has several new features that work well.

Pallavi is now a working simple text editor, much more powerful than notepad. It has a simpler interface than many complex editor. It emphasizes the use of customization and plugins to allow you to build your own editor containing only the features you need, rather than providingy ou with everything you might need, or worse, leaving out a few of the features you just can't live without. Pallavi contains a simple, but elegant event broadcast system to allow plugins to be replaced by alternatives and the simple plugin interface allows the editor to be extended in many ways. Most features are optional (the default configuration doesn't even enable a menu- or tool-bar, although it is easy to add the plugins that do this), allowing you to have only those things you need with nothing else getting in your way.... read more

The new wxPython version of Pallavi has been released! Its been quite well tested on Linux, but received no testing on other platforms, this is the primary reason for a beta release. However, it won't be long until the final release is pushed out, so if you know of bugs, report them quickly!

Thanks again for your interest in Pallavi!

The first Pallavi release has been made and can be found in the Files section here on sourceforge.

This release is buggy and known not to work on several systems, there seems to be a problem with character encodings. The release has mostly been made because I intend to rewrite significant portions of the code to use wxwidgets instead of pygtk, so this will be the only release with these dependencies.... read more

I've just made my first svn import on sourceforge. Its been a long wait for this project page, but all seems to be working well.

The goal of this project is to create a fully customizable text editor in Python. However, I do not want it to be only a Python editor, I've chosen Python as it is a beautiful language for scripting and configuration. The basic design is to allow nearly all actions to be covered as plugins. This means that third party developers can write new or better plugins for all activities. I'm making everything a plugin, including basic things like I/O and key processing.... read more