Yi 0.5.0 Release Notes

Yi

Yi is a text editor written and extensible in Haskell. The long-term goal of the Yi project is to provide the editor of choice for Haskell programmers.

Yi is not a finished product. This is a beta-quality release. However, Yi has become a lot more usable than previously, so if you feel like testing it, now might be a good time to take a look.

Installation

Using cabal install:

cabal install yi–0.5.0.1

If you want unix console support, pass the -fvty option to cabal install.

Features

• A purely functional editor core
• Key-bindings written as parsers of the input
• Emacs, Vim and partial Cua emulations provided by default
• Unix Console front-end (Gtk2Hs frontend is not supported in this release)
• Static configuration (XMonad style) for fast load
• Haskell support:
  • Lexical highlighting
  • Layout-aware parenthesis-matching
  • Auto-indentation
  • Call cabal build within the editor

Links

• download
• FAQ
• homepage
• blog and release notes
• check and report issues
• darcs repository

Credits

This release is brought to you by:

• Allan Clark
• Corey O’Connor
• Gustav Munkby
• Gwern Branwen
• Jean-Philippe Bernardy
• Jeff Wheeler
• Nicolas Pouillard
• Thomas Schilling
• Tristan Allwood

and all the contributors to the previous versions.