Pacu 1.2.2 - Stable like a beech tree (bugfix release)

posted by frank at Jul 1st, 2010

After 3 weeks of bug fixing, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Pacu 1.2.2. The most crucial bugfix closes crashes on haXe files. Furthermore syntax highlighting got improved for all languages, mostly affecting Ruby and haXe (see also the notes below on Textmate themes). On OS X you can now use the Finder to open files. Pacu delivers for most of the supported file types icons and needed Launch Service integration.

Changelog Summary

  • improved detection of haXe compiler messages
  • improved conversion of the Textmate themes included in Pacu
  • newly supported language: Cucumber
  • new keyboard sugar: allow moving tabs by keyboard shortcuts
  • new feature: allow to open files by default application form the context menu of the file browser
  • fixed: haXe code browsing was killing Pacu
  • fixed: mouse cursor difficult to see on dark background

OS X Specific Changes

  • new feature: better integration with launch services
  • fixed: make sub-dialogs in the preference dialog show correctly
  • fixed: showing keyboard shortcuts correctly in the menus

Textmate Theme Converter

If you have Textmate themes you would like to use, take a look at our theme converter. Simply paste the tmTheme file into the form and save the resulting mytheme.js in /Where/Is/Pacu/shared/charcoal/themes (Linux) or /Applications/Pacu.app/Contents/Resources/charcoal/themes (Mac). Restart Pacu and enjoy!

Future Outlook: Pacu 1.3

The next version of Pacu will focus on productivity features: snippets, auto-completion and code insight. Before that there is a version 1.2.3 planned adding highlighting and code browsing for more languages.

Curious: Pacu is Green

My electrical utility provider informed me, that I saved CO2 emissions equivalent to the CO2 absorption of 52 trees. Thereby I can claim Pacu is build in an environmentally sustained way. Incidentally I know, that it also killed some birds. Beware the magnificent 100m wind turbines. They develop killing speeds at the edges of their rotor blades! So if you like trees, or hate birdies, buy Pacu!-)


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Comments

avatar finty
2010-07-02 08:23 AM
Hi, great work with Pacu. I look forward to auto-completion in 1.3 :-)

I really like how you have integrated a terminal into the ui. It would be great if you could drag files onto the terminal just like you can with the regular Terminal window. I tend to do this a lot to save me typing out a full directory path every time I want to change directory.

it's looking good!


avatar aPenguin!
2010-07-27 08:07 PM
Hi, I'm not a Pacu's user. Why don't you release this software under a floss license? Pacu is a tiny editor, not so much (it looks, I haven't use it yet), likes lots other editor, such as (G)Vim, Emacs, Geany, Kate and other (yeah, I'm a Linux user), and I don't understand why makes it property :S Of course, you're the developer, but I think that Pacu could be so much popular if free libre open source software :D Bye bye

avatar yanyu
2010-07-28 08:16 PM
@aPenguin!: If you ever use a open source software, you will known, many of them are out of maintenance. Before pacu many fragments and software like konzept from cyblogic can not be continued developed without donation. But we never got enough donation for the maintaince. So we sell pacu with low price, and continue to add more features for pacu. So if you want a qualified software, buy the software, and you will help the developer to make it better. Pacu could be much popular, but quantity and maintenance of long duration are more important. For them, pacu is not expensive.

avatar aPenguin!
2010-07-28 08:33 PM
@yanyu, thanks for the answer :) I now that open source software can have a discontinued developed, but till it's a pay software, people will continue to use free (as beer) software, better if floss. Now I don't now how many people have bought it, but of couse, the licence of a software is decided by their developers. Frank is an indipendent developer, and of course he needs money (anyhow, how don't need?), but if his goals been the popularity of his creation (thing that, as a free software developer, is the main goal), he could release it under a free licence. Thanks for your times, bye :)

avatar yanyu
2010-07-29 10:30 AM
@aPenguin!: The Goals of creating a software should not just for the popularity. Because if we lose the quantity and maintenance, anything which today is popular, will not be popular tomorrow anymore. People will search an alternative. And that hurts too much for the developer. If you also use Mac, you will see many qualified software with shareware license. And they are also popular. Except that, he does have done many free software too.

avatar Phunky
2010-09-22 08:23 AM
Wow, this is a lovely little editor - i've been using espresso for some time but this might just replace it :) it's the first editor i've found on OSX that has a decent folder tree view inside the actual app.

One request I can see is to implement Zen Coding - http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/ if Paco had this i'd be in heaven!! No need for auto complete or any of that fluff if you supported this :D

Going to go back to playing with Paco and see if I can convert!

Oh a bit of a UI request - can you make it so you can hide/minimise the toolbar at the top please, it takes up quite a bit of space on my 13" Macbook :(


avatar frank
2010-09-22 09:37 PM
@Phunky: For your MacBook try the latest prerelease from here . It's still not perfect, it won't be restored the next time you launch Pacu. But anyway...

Zen coding looks interesting. I just skimmed over the project home. The zen expressions are expected to be expanded after pressing tab (or other magic key)? The expressions itself look very simple to me.

avatar Phunky
2010-09-22 09:55 PM
Once you start using Zen Coding you'll never want to have any other form of auto complete - the power of using CSS Selectors to then create markup is just awesome!

I'll give the prerelease a go now, looking forward to see what you guys do with this!

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