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Here's an incomplete list of the features added to Saskatoon, taken straight from our DONE.txt. This may help you decide whether to download the zipped source package.

FEATURES

• Reveal in Finder [pbx 2004-11-02]
• Shell execution with output capture (alpha) [pbx 2004-11-05]
• Shell filtering (piping to unix commands) (alpha) [pbx 2004-11-05]
• Implemented "Close All Documents" [pbx 2004-11-07]
• "clean text" [pbx 2004-11-09]
• shell drawer (alpha) [pbx 2004-11-18]
• Preview In Browser [pbx 2004-11-19]
• "indent C" and "Textile to HTML" transforms added [pbx 2004-11-24]
• dragging text to document list creates new untitled doc containing that text [pbx 2004-11-26]
• dragging URLs from Safari, OmniWeb, Opera, Camino, and IE fetches page source into a new untitled document [pbx 2004-11-29]
• xmllint transform added [pbx 2004-12-02]
• added preference to optionally ignore dropped non-text files [pbx 2004-12-05]
• on-demand word count (info tab in side drawer) [pbx 2004-12-06]
• added browser preview for Firefox, IE, Omniweb [pbx 2004-12-07]
• improved Reveal In Finder (no more Applescript!) [pbx 2004-12-07]

Please read the release notes for details:

http://sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=343155

The Saskatoon project has stalled out! However, we do plan to release source files before the end of July, hopefully with some notes for intrepid hackers who would like to pursue their own fork of Smultron. Watch this space.

It's been a while since our last update, but we're still plugging away and closing in on a public release. A reminder: for earliest notice of releases, sign up for the announcement list.

Saskatoon now supports two new drag-and-drop behaviors: drag text to the document list to create an untitled document with that text; drag a URL from Safari to the document list to create an untitled document containing the HTML source of that page.

We've posted a few screen grabs that show some of the new features, including the shell drawer and text transforms, as well as some of the subtler interface changes. Note the complete absence of brushed metal!

Thanks to the fabulous developers of iTerm, a GPL terminal program for OS X, we're having an easy time adding our "Shell Drawer" feature. Look for a screenshot in the next few days.

We just got confirmation from Apple that the creator code "SASK" has been allocated to Saskatoon. One more miniscule step toward legitimacy...

We're getting lots of good email from interesting Mac people who have code, skills, interface mockups, and ideas to contribute. Thanks! It's great to see all this interest.

There's still a lot to do, but we've succeded in adding a number of desired features -- see the teaser screenshot on the Home Page. We've also fixed many bugs. Release date for a public beta release is now being discussed!

We've switched to Subversion for source code management -- so any lingering files you may see in the CVS browser here are very likely out of date.

We've started work on Saskatoon, a Cocoa coder's editor based on Smultron by Peter Borg. If you're interested in being a developer (now) or a tester (later), send e-mail to one of the project admins.