What's New in 0.3.1?

I'm delighted to announce a new release of Scribes. Scribes is the sexy and extensible text editor for GNOME that uniquely balances simplicity with power. This release features performance optimizations, numerous enhancements and the ability to extend the editor via plugins written in Python. You are strongly recommended to upgrade.

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Extensibility via Python Plugin

Every feature in Scribes is now a plugin. You can extend or customize the editor by writing your own plugins. Also, if you are displeased with an implementation of a feature, you can improve the plugin associated with it, or remove the plugin. Plugins are now the standard and official way to add new features to the editor.

Automatic Correction or Replacement

Via the Automatic Replacement Editor found in the preference menu, you can now assign short abbreviations to long words or phrases. Anytime an abbreviation is detected in the editing area, it will be expanded to its corresponding long word or phrase automatically.

Template System Enhancements

If you are unfamiliar with templates, watch the flash demo. The templates system is revamped, new and improved. Template triggers are now highlighted in the buffer to provide visual feedback. The template editor now points to where you can download premade templates. You can now prepend "`" to template triggers in the editing area to expand triggers within characters. There are also new and updated template files for more languages.

Document Switcher Enhancements

The document switcher allows you to quickly and efficiently focus documents open by Scribes. In this release, you can now close documents via the document switcher by pressing the delete key on a selected document item.

Auto-Completion Enhancements

The word completion system can now deal with extremely large documents without tasking the editor.

Search Within Selection

You can now select lines of text and search within the selection. The selection must be more than a line long.

File Modification Alert

You will now be notified when another application modifies a documents currently in use by Scribes. You'll be given the option to overwrite or reload the document in question.

Syntax Color Switcher

You can now set syntax colors for a document via the editor's popup menu. The Highlight Mode menu item allows you to do that.

New Minimalist Interface

Press (ctrl - alt -m) to toggle the new minimalist interface on or off. The minimalist interface hides the toolbar and status bar for maximum viewing range and screen estate as well as minimal distraction.

Performance optimizations

Optionally, you can install Psyco to improve the general performance, responsiveness and smoothness of the editor. Psyco is the advanced performance optimization compiler for Python. Startup and file loading performance have also been improved.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thanks to the testers, translators and contributors who have all sacrificed their time and resources to make Scribes and Free Software better.

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