An­nounce­men­t:

Mar­ave (noth­ing, in guaraní) is a re­laxed text ed­i­tor. Its goal is to let you fo­cus in your writ­ing, free of vis­ual dis­trac­tions and clut­ter.

It is writ­ten us­ing PyQt, so it should work in all ma­jor plat­form­s, and it is li­censed un­der the GPLv2 so it is free soft­ware.

You can find the cur­rent SVN (no re­lease yet) at http://­mar­ave.­google­code.­com

Screen­shot­s:

Sta­tus:

It's not fin­ished yet, but it has the fol­low­ing fea­tures:

• You can ed­it text

• Min­i­­mal­is­tic, "van­ish­ing" us­er in­­ter­­face

• (Op­­tion­al) au­­dio feed­back for the key­board

• (Op­­tion­al) re­lax­ing mu­sic (re­quires in­­ter­net ac­cess)

• You can cus­­tom­ize the back­­­ground, font, colours, and sounds

• Live spell check­­ing (re­quires pyen­chan­t)

There are al­so some ma­jor miss­ing fea­tures:

• Search and Search/Re­­place is not im­­ple­­men­t­ed

• UI cus­­tomiza­­­tions are not stored

• UI has to be cleaned up a lot more

• It does­n't ask to save when clos­ing

• Au­­tosave not im­­ple­­men­t­ed

And at least one known bug:

• In win­­dows the wid­gets are not well placed Fixed in SVN

A litte his­to­ry:

A few days ago, I saw ommwrit­er men­tioned in a tweet or some­thing sim­i­lar.

I was think­ing "nice thing", but in the back of my mind I was al­so think­ing "that can't be too hard to do". Af­ter al­l, the hard part of cre­at­ing a pro­gram is mak­ing it do things, right?

Well, yes and no. I did man­age to cre­ate a some­what rea­son­able fac­sim­i­le in a day, but tweak­ing the looks of it is driv­ing me nuts :-)