[Wordgrinder-users] 0.6.0 beta testers wanted!

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

You know how when you pull one little thread on a jumper intending to
tidy it up a bit, and before you know it you've unravelled it and have
turned it into a set of octopus mittens? Yeah.

I know at least some people are already playing with 0.6.0, but it's
nearly feature complete and it needs breaking. Please break it.

The source is on github now:

https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder

Anyone who wants a Windows binary, please mail me. Anyone else will need
to compile it themselves, I'm afraid.

New features include but are not limited to:

- undo
- more traditional text selection and styling model
- basic spellchecker
- X11 port (bold, italic and underline are displayed correctly!)
- better terminal rendering (italics! Sometimes!)
- smart quotes
- global configuration (crudely)
- many, many, *many* bug fixes

The usual warnings apply: this is beta software. It's not guaranteed to
work. Save regularly and often, and back up your documents. This program
may kill your computer and delete your dog. (Like, I fixed an
instant-crash bug two days ago. I'm seriously not kidding.)

I'd like people to hammer it, do weird things with it, try to make it
break, and then tell me when it does so I can fix it. It's reasonably
stable for me... but I know how it works, so I'm not pushing it very hard.

Documents saved in 0.6.0 will *not* be loadable on 0.5.3. Sorry.

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