Frustrated by those other console editors? You already know what keys to press in your GUI applications to open, save, copy, cut, paste and undo. Why should your console text editor behave differently? Answer: it shouldn't.

Welcome to Diakonos, the console text editor with a key mapping you practically already know. Easy to use and easy to configure, but potent in the hands of power users.

Tarballs

• Latest: 0.8.12 (August 1, 2009) (announcement)
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: 532118781dba7448afd5918c89e470c9
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 69d3322a67c15234db49924140ac5c83
• older releases...
• 0.8.11 (July 7, 2009) (announcement)
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: 6b9e9d682e9eb53eb9bac5643f267c93
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 4e37288fc8c4a8f7412a87c9e4da5e7b
• 0.8.10 (June 24, 2009) (announcement)
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: d2cc09044b291be4d570d080f2f7153a
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: a9dd746160617c92e3d4a60cca5892d4
• 0.8.9 (June 14, 2009) (announcement)
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: 384a4879542d8e197c39a037e1342a6a
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: a19a7f376efe7b74d25f7683eee5bfca
• 0.8.8 (April 3, 2009) (announcement)
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: 1bf1dbcfd606006aa8ca1a9d8c6eda07
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 556ed0dc74f0591e8ba36489f84d8808
• 0.8.7 (February 22, 2009) (announcement)
  • gem MD5 sum: af195284006bbcd05751aee1af103e7a gem PGP signature
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: cdeb539772046684ffcc2fbf7a6aee7f tar.gz PGP signature
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 71d70e950fa46796eada440794f0e127 tar.bz2 PGP signature
• 0.8.6 (November 2, 2008) (announcement)
  • gem MD5 sum: 52992e03f90a9df470ce0986c5315ce0 gem PGP signature
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: 29dbfc8555e717ca58414165bb0b132e tar.gz PGP signature
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 61fb162b59d7f302f7814e01096e6965 tar.bz2 PGP signature
• 0.8.5 (October 3, 2008) (announcement)
  • gem MD5 sum: 4ca1784ba6782a68ed64874081bb9ba1 gem PGP signature
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: f5b87664d1f5f609a812a539ab16ff80 tar.gz PGP signature
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 5ba7191f59df0a4920588fdd29db1937 tar.bz2 PGP signature
• 0.8.4 (May 24, 2008) (announcement)
  • gem MD5 sum: 0823b376859fcdf95b27785b49d7f46a gem PGP signature
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: bbf016b9949a2eb7a8c36c9e0f461662 tar.gz PGP signature
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 8f74641422ccb3ebf2448761a76ce0c6 tar.bz2 PGP signature
• 0.8.3 (February 22, 2007)
  • gem MD5 sum: b152974922202130bfd206579bfd9fbc gem PGP signature
  • tar.gz MD5 sum: 56f4b9c3e6ffc982e31bfc70c08b59ac tar.gz PGP signature
  • tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 4127ad4dc1a59b26419e49bf7719287d tar.bz2 PGP signature
• 0.8.2 (August 14, 2006)
  tar.gz MD5 sum: f0fe90fc712bd2ced02e32ab4d815e97
  tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 6e6b0686d133b4e7dcb45459a3c4bb22
• 0.8.1 (May 13, 2006)
  tar.gz MD5 sum: 55a8d21520303ac66b30aa4a4ba3cebd
  tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 7ebc969f01d6373343b49f673e3098df
• 0.8.0 (March 7, 2006)
  tar.gz MD5 sum: 637b9956b3a25165306a9ec41e747986
  tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 6d4ed490a2546e8def2b0ff2a082a9bf
• 0.7.9 (December 19, 2005):
  tar.gz MD5 sum: 805deadec2fb4589b8ba388f64c03f5a
  tar.bz2 MD5 sum: 4e5f139b71a0490392198e0b07633944
• 0.7.8 (November 9, 2005): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.7 (October 11, 2005): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.6 (July 12, 2005): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.5 (May 13, 2005): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.4 (March 28, 2005): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.3 (February 17, 2005): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.2 (December 16, 2004): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.1 (September 8, 2004): tar.gz | tar.bz2
• 0.7.0 (August 23, 2004)
• 0.6.13 (August 16, 2004)
• 0.6.12 (August 6, 2004)
• 0.6.11 (August 4, 2004)
• 0.6.10 (July 21, 2004)
• 0.6.9 (July 19, 2004)
• 0.6.8 (July 14, 2004)
• 0.6.7 (July 13, 2004)
• 0.6.6 (July 8, 2004)
• 0.6.5 (June 22, 2004)
• 0.6.4 (June 16, 2004)

Installation

Many Linux distros have a Diakonos package, so you can use your distro's package manager to install Diakonos. If you want to install Diakonos manually, make sure you have Ruby on your system, download a tarball (above), unpack it, then run this to see how to install:

ruby install.rb --help

You can run off the cutting edge repository code with the same install command. See "Source Code", below.

Source Code

The absolute latest development source can be had from the git repository:

git clone git://github.com/Pistos/diakonos.git

Licence

Diakonos versions 0.8.5 and greater are made available under the MIT Licence. Diakonos versions 0.8.4 and prior are made available under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Features

• grep as you type
• macro recording and playback
• multi-element clipboard
• can synchronize with KDE Klipper or xclip
• multi-level undo
• parsed ("smart") indentation
• customizable multilingual syntax highlighting, with support for embedded languages (e.g. PHP, erb, Javascript)
• bookmarking, named and unnamed
• regular expression searching
• customizable status line
• code/keyword completion/snippets
• 256-colour support
• interactive help system
• sessions
• hooks
• built-in Ruby support
• fully extensible
• scripting in any language
• limited ctags support
• some git integration

Linux Packages

Arch Linux users can install Diakonos from AUR. This can be done with yaourt -S diakonos.

There are Debian and Ubuntu packages for Diakonos for each of the stability releases of these distros (stable, testing, etc.). Installation should be possible using the normal Debian/Ubuntu package manager(s). Ubuntu users should be aware of this Ubuntu bug, though.

Slackware users can check out the Diakonos slackbuild.

Sourcemage users can just cast diakonos.

FreeBSD users can install the Diakonos port with: cd /usr/ports/editors/diakonos/ ; make install clean

Exherbo users can use this package.

Gentoo users will have to wait for Gentoo officials to accept my ebuild, but in the meantime, you can put the ebuild in /usr/local/portage/app-editors/diakonos/ then emerge diakonos. The emerge will likely fail; before emerging, you may need to follow one line of instructions (found in the failure messages) to digest the ebuild:

ebuild <path to downloaded ebuild> digest

If you want to see Diakonos accepted into the official Portage tree, please vote for the ebuild bug.

If you create a package for any other distro, please let me know, and I will include it here.

Help and Support

Diakonos has a built-in help system, accessible with the F1 key. Some other documentation is in the wiki. There is also a changelog which is updated as new features are added or bugs fixed. It is targetted at end users.

RDocs (developer documentation, useful for extension writers and prospective core contributors) can be generated from the source code with YARD. Alternatively, they are automatically built from the repository and placed on rdoc.info.

I can be found at irc.freenode.net:6667#mathetes, among other places, for technical support, or feedback and commentary about Diakonos. That IRC channel is the place to go for bug reports, feature requests and tech support. Even if I'm not around, I will eventually read anything you have to say.

If IRC is not your thing, you can file bug reports at the issue tracker.