The first "good" ver­sion of Mar­ave my re­lax­ing text ed­i­tor is out!

What is Mar­ave?

Mar­ave is an ed­i­tor that does­n't dis­tract you. It has a fullscreen in­ter­face, and most of the time, while you write, you will on­ly see your tex­t, and maybe a back­ground:

Of course it is al­so quite con­fig­urable:

Some of the fea­tures:

• Cus­­tom back­­­grounds (im­ages or col­ors)

• Font and font size are con­­fig­urable

• Re­­size­able ed­i­­tor of con­­fig­urable opac­i­­ty

• "Van­ish­ing" UI, when you tipe, it all goes away

• Op­­tion­al me­­dia play­er (right now aimed at stream­ing au­­dio, maybe sound­s­capes some­­day)

• Op­­tion­al au­­dio feed­back for the key­board (just in case you miss the old type­­writer)

• Theme sup­­port

• Mul­ti­lin­gual spellcheck­­ing (re­quires pyen­chan­t)

Mar­ave is im­ple­ment­ed us­ing PyQt, so it should work in all ma­jor plat­form­s, Win­dows, Lin­ux and Mac OS­X, as long as you have PyQt in­stalled.

In the fu­ture, easy to use bi­na­ries will be pro­vid­ed for Win­dows and Mac.

This ver­sion is not fea­ture com­plete. Specif­i­cal­ly:

• Search+Re­­place is not done

• There may be some cus­­tomiza­­­tions not im­­ple­­men­t­ed

Down­load Mar­ave 0.1

UP­DATE 0.2 is out, at http://­code.­google.­com/p/­mar­ave/­down­load­s/list