Hello folks, I'm very pleased to announce the 0.2.0 release of the Yi editor. Yi is a text editor written and extensible in Haskell. The goal of Yi is to provide a flexible, powerful and correct editor core dynamically scriptable in Haskell. Yi is not a finished product, but "release early, release often", and it's been way too long since last time :). Besides, Yi has interesting aspects that deserve wider exposure. * Yi is an haskell interpreter. Very much like emacs is a Lisp interpreter, this makes really easy to dynamically hack, experiment and modify Yi. All tools and goodies written in haskell are also readily available from the editor. This is implemented by binding to the GHC api. * Frontends. Yi can use either gtk2hs or vty as frontends, so users can choose their favourite interface. * "Emulation modes". The primary emulation modes for Yi are vim and emacs. Keybindings for vi, mg and nano and other are also provided. Other editor interfaces can be written by the user to extend Yi. Download from Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:Editor (please note that you need yi and either of the yi-vty or yi-gtk backends) More information is available on: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi Darcs repo: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/yi/ Yi homepage: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/yi.html Patches, comments, criticism welcome... as always! CREDITS: The following people have contributed to Yi: Allan Clark Alson Kemp Andrii Zvorygin Bastiaan Zapf Ben Moseley Cale Gibbard Don Stewart Duncan Coutts Harald Korneliussen Henning Guenther Jason Dagit Jean-Philippe Bernardy Mario Lang Mark Wotton Samuel Bronson Shae Erisson Simon Winwood Spencer Janssen Stefan O'Rear Suleiman Souhlal Taral Tim Newsham Tuomo Valkonen Vivian McPhail Yang Zhang (If I've forgotten you, please tell me -- there are a few patches I could not trace back to their author) This release also marks my taking over the maintenance of Yi. Many thanks to Donald Bruce Stewart for creating and bringing up Yi so far. -- Jean-Philippe Bernardy