[Padre-dev] Padre 0.42 - birthday edition - released!

[breno]

Hi everyone!

It is with enormous pleasure that I present Padre, the Perl IDE, release #42.

As you may have known from previous posts, this Monday was the 1st
anniversary of Padre! Everybody got together over the weekend and
several improvements and bugfixes were made. We even got a brand new
Padre logo, the Blue Morpho Butterfly. Make sure you check it out!

A few other highlights of the biggest Changelog we had since release
0.21 (weird, huh?!):

    * The Directory Browser is not only prettier, faster and more
useful than ever (with a built in search engine and some DWIM
behavior) but now also has a panel on the left side of Padre all for
itself called "project tools". Alias++ && gabrielmad++.

    * Azawawi++ implemented smart highlighting, and now whenever you
double click on a word will not only select it as usual but also show
a green squiggle for each mathing word on that same document.

    * Azawawi also got to finish his work on initial support for Padre
actions, which means an action can be re-used by anything running on
Padre. This will most definitely have a major positive impact on
future development of the project.

    * Bricas++ added a "right margin" option which will show a tiny
vertical line at the specified column. This is a really cool visual
aid if you don't want to get your strings beyond 78 characters or
whatever standard you may have. Incidentally, he is also the
maintainer of the PerlTidy plugin, which might help you even more on
tidying you code.

    * Alias also added two new options: "Close This Project" to close
all open files in the same project as the current file, and "Close
Other Projects" to do the opposite. Something everybody used to
editing several projects at the same time were really looking forward
to.


As usual, many thanks are in order to everybody who got involved
directly or indirectly in this release of Padre. And make sure to keep
bug reports and wishlists coming!

Oh, one more thing: being a special "birthday edition", this release
has a commemorative title on the main Padre window. Make sure you drop
by #padre on irc.perl.org and help us go through enough changes/fixes
so we can release 0.43 even better (and without that title :P)

Enjoy!