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author: ''
category: ''
date: 2010/02/25 11:16
description: ''
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priority: ''
slug: BB879
tags: marave, open source, programming, pyqt, python, qt
title: Marave 0.7 released
type: text
updated: 2010/02/25 11:16
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I just uploaded version 0.7 of Marave, my fullscreen text editor to http://marave.googlecode.com

Marave is a "relaxing" text editor inspired by ommwriter, DarkRoom and many others. It combines a spartan fullscreen UI with a vanishing UI, which gets out of the way of your text.

It supports syntax highlighting, inine spellchecking, background music, audible keyboard feedback, themes, is extensible via plugins, and much more.

Here's a screenshot:

.. raw:: html

   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralsina/4387267198/" title="marave18 by ralsina_2000, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4387267198_d24b5e861e.jpg" alt="marave18" /></a>

There are no major new features in 0.7, but there are important internal changes and some major bugs fixed:

* Fixed bug that broke opening files if you had no spellchecker
* Implemented basic RTL language support
* Several other minor fixes
* Refactored the editor component so it can be reused