https://github.com/danlucraft/redcar

A cross-platform programmer's editor written in Ruby.
https://github.com/danlucraft/redcar

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A cross-platform programmer's editor written in Ruby.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danlucraft/redcar
• Owner: danlucraft
• License: other
• Created: 2010-08-21T17:42:07.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-20T19:29:32.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-15T14:54:36.938Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://redcareditor.com
• Size: 43.3 MB
• Stars: 996
• Watchers: 40
• Forks: 148
• Open Issues: 23
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
{Redcar}

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[http://redcareditor.com/](http://redcareditor.com/)

## Description

A Ruby text editor.

 * written in Ruby from the ground up

 * runs on JRuby (a fast, compatible Ruby implementation)

 * is cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

 * highly extensible

Some Redcar features:

 * supports Textmate themes and snippets

 * split screen mode

 * syntax checking for many languages

 * built in REPL for Ruby, plugins for Groovy, Clojure and Mirah.

Some (current) limitations:

 * Only supports UTF-8 file encodings (and therefore ASCII)

![alt text](http://redcareditor.com/images/redcar-4-thumb.png "Title")

![alt text](http://redcareditor.com/images/redcar-1-thumb.png "Title")

## Installation

    $ gem install redcar

for more details, see [User Guide: Installation](https://github.com/redcar/redcar/wiki/Installation)

* Note: On OS X, you must have Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools (available view `Xcode > Preferences > Downloads`) installed.

## Usage

Run 

    $ redcar --help

To see full usage details.

## Experimental Installers

You must have Java installed. On Ubuntu, you can install `openjdk-7-jre` if you do not already have Java.

 * [OS X](https://github.com/downloads/redcar/redcar/Redcar-0.14.0dev.app.zip)

    unzip, then double click Redcar.app

    

 * [Debian](https://github.com/downloads/redcar/redcar/redcar_0.14.0dev_all.deb)

    install with sudo dpkg -i redcar_xx_all.deb

    

 * [Windows](https://github.com/downloads/redcar/redcar/redcar-0.14.0dev.zip)

    unzip, then run redcar.exe

## Installing From Source

    git clone git://github.com/redcar/redcar.git

    cd redcar

    rake init

    ruby bin/redcar

## Problems?

* Irc at #redcar on irc.freenode.net

* Mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/redcar-editor

## License

Redcar is copyright 2007-2012 Daniel Lucraft and contributors.

It is licensed under the GPLv2. See the included LICENSE file for details.