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Labels:	python, wxpython, editor, chinese

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What is `UliPad`

UliPad is en editor written in python and wxPython.

Why named it `UliPad`?

The name is comes from Claudio Grondi(Thank you!).

Claudio Grondi said:

As we are on the way to make NewEdit THE programmer editor I think, that
a new unique name will help here much (NewEdit is just cheap...).

I suggest to use 'UliPad'.

It has the shortcut of UnLImited.
It tells it is a plain text editor (Pad).
It tells something about the original author (LImodou).

But the most important advantage is:
 
    Google has no entry for 'UliPad' yet!

Wonderful! It seems many people like it.

Description

UliPad uses Mixin and Plugin technique as its architecture. Most of its classes can be extended via mixin and plugin components, and finally become an integrity class when creating the instance. So UliPad is very dynamic. You can write the new features in new files, and hardly need to modify the existing code. And if you want to extend the existing classes, you could write mixins and plugins, and this will be bound to the target class that I call "Slot Class". This technique will make the changes centralized and easily managed.

Requirements:

Python 2.3+
wxPython 2.4.2.4+ Unicode Version

Recommends:

Python 2.4+
wxPython 2.8+ Unicode Version

Some plugins may have additional requirements, please read the readme information before installing them.

Objective

Make a clean, powerful, flexible general editor, and even an application framework. And adding extensions should be very easy.

Tasks:

Mixin and Plugin framework
Unicode support
User defined plugin management
User custom window integration
User custom wizard function

Change Log

You can see the ChangeLog to know the new changes of UliPad.

Features

Cross platform

based on wxPython, so it can run anywhere that wxPython works, such as: Windows, Linux.
Unicode support.

Most features of wxStyledTextCtrl(Scintilla)

Syntax highlighting, support Python, c/c++, html, plain text
Folding
Brace Matching
...

Extended selection

Extended word selection -- You can press Ctrl+MouseDoubleClick to select a word including '.'
Matched selection -- Select text in quoted chars like: (), [], {}, '', "".

For example: a string just like
def func(self, 'This is a test'): ^
The '^' char represents caret position in above line. If you press Ctrl+E, you will select the whole text in (), i.e. "self, 'This is a test'". Something more in Selection Menu.

Other editing extension

Duplicating text -- Just like Vim Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P, and more. You can duplicate above or below char, word, line which match the leading chars.
Quoting text -- Add some quoted chars before and after selected text, just as: "", '', (), [], {}, and customized string, etc.
Text convertion and view -- python -> html, reStructured Text -> html, textile -> html, and you can output or view the html text in message window, or html view window, or replace the selected text.
Utf-8 encoding auto detect
Changing document encoding
Auto backup
Last session support -- It'll save all the filenames as closed, and reopen the files as next started.
Smart judge the indent char -- It'll auto guess the indent char, and sets it.
Finding in files
Bookmark supports

Python support

built-in python interactive window based on PyShell, support Unicode
Auto completion
Function syntax calltips
Run, run with argument, stop python source
Auto change current path
Python class browser
Syntax and PEP8 style checking，also supply a pylint plugin.

Code snippets

You can manage your code snippets with categories, and each category can have many items. Every item will represent a code snippet. You can insert an item just by double-clicking on it. It even supports importing and exporting.

Simple project support

Can create a special file project, so every file and folder under the folder which has the project can be considered as a whole project.

Extension mechanism

Script -- You can write easy script to manipulate the all resource of UliPad, just like: text conversion, etc.
Plugin -- Customized function. More complex but more powerful. Can easily merge with UliPad, and can be managed via menu.
Shell command -- Add often used shell commands, and execute them.

Ftp support

You can edit remote files through ftp. You can add, rename, delete, upload, download file/directory.

Multilanguage support

Currently supports 4 languages: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, which can be auto-detected.

Ships many plugins(must be configed as used them before)

Django support plugin
Batch rename files plugin
Collaborative Programming support plugin, names as pairprog.
Mp3 player plugin
Spell check plugin
wizard plugin
Text to speech(windows only) plugin
...

Shipped scripts

You can find them in ($UliPadInstalled)/scripts.

Wizard

You can make your own wizard template. The wizard can input user data, combine with template, and output the result. And wizard also support code framework created. This feature will help you improving coding efficiency.

Direcotry Browser

Browse multiple directories, and you can really add, delete, rename directories and files. Double click will open the file in Editor window.

AutoComPlete(acp)

Suport user autocomplete file, it can help to input code very helpful and functional.

Column Editing Mode

You can select multilines, and then set a column mode region, so in any line of this region, if you enter a character, other lines will also add this character. If you want to deal with multilines as a similar mode, this functionality will be very handy.