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- {Redcar}
- ========
- [http://redcareditor.com/](http://redcareditor.com/)
- ## Description
- A Ruby text editor.
- * written in Ruby from the ground up
- * runs on JRuby (a fast, compatible Ruby implementation)
- * is cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)
- * highly extensible
- Some Redcar features:
- * supports Textmate themes and snippets
- * split screen mode
- * syntax checking for many languages
- * built in REPL for Ruby, plugins for Groovy, Clojure and Mirah.
- Some (current) limitations:
- * Only supports UTF-8 file encodings (and therefore ASCII)
- ![alt text](http://redcareditor.com/images/redcar-4-thumb.png "Title")
- ![alt text](http://redcareditor.com/images/redcar-1-thumb.png "Title")
- ## Installation
- $ gem install redcar
- for more details, see [User Guide: Installation](https://github.com/redcar/redcar/wiki/Installation)
- * Note: On OS X, you must have Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools (available view `Xcode > Preferences > Downloads`) installed.
- ## Usage
- Run
- $ redcar --help
- To see full usage details.
- ## Experimental Installers
- You must have Java installed. On Ubuntu, you can install `openjdk-7-jre` if you do not already have Java.
- * [OS X](https://github.com/downloads/redcar/redcar/Redcar-0.14.0dev.app.zip)
- unzip, then double click Redcar.app
-
- * [Debian](https://github.com/downloads/redcar/redcar/redcar_0.14.0dev_all.deb)
- install with sudo dpkg -i redcar_xx_all.deb
-
- * [Windows](https://github.com/downloads/redcar/redcar/redcar-0.14.0dev.zip)
- unzip, then run redcar.exe
- ## Installing From Source
- git clone git://github.com/redcar/redcar.git
- cd redcar
- rake init
- ruby bin/redcar
- ## Problems?
- * Irc at #redcar on irc.freenode.net
- * Mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/redcar-editor
- ## License
- Redcar is copyright 2007-2012 Daniel Lucraft and contributors.
- It is licensed under the GPLv2. See the included LICENSE file for details.