About

Diakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor. I made it with the intention of being easier to configure and use than emacs, more powerful than pico and nano, and not as cryptic as vi or ex. It is my hope that people experience the same elation going from other console editors to Diakonos as they do going from older languages to Ruby.

Diakonos is a Ruby program, and hence needs Ruby installed.

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.

Features

• scripting in any language
• macro recording and playback
• multi-element clipboard
• multi-level undo
• parsed ("smart") indentation
• customizable multilingual syntax highlighting, with support for embedded languages (e.g. PHP, eRuby, Javascript)
• bookmarking, named and unnamed
• regular expression searching
• a customizable status line
• limited ctags support
• hooks

CHANGELOG

Download

• Latest Stable: 0.8.4 (May 24, 2008)
  • 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)

Diakonos is made available under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

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

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

Installation

As of version 0.8.3, Diakonos is distributed as a Ruby gem. As such, simply install with

gem install diakonos

Or you can get a fairly cutting-edge release with

gem install diakonos --source http://purepistos.net

See the Installation documentation on the wiki for instructions on installing from tarballs, or installing older versions.

Packages

Sourcemage users can just "cast diakonos".

Arch Linux users can install Diakonos from AUR. This can be done with "qpkg -p diakonos".

Users of the unstable branch of Debian ("Sid") can acquire the Diakonos package for Debian.

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

Diakonos ebuilds

• diakonos-0.8.4.ebuild
• diakonos-0.8.3.ebuild
• diakonos-0.8.2.ebuild
• diakonos-0.8.1.ebuild
• diakonos-0.8.0.ebuild
• diakonos-0.7.9.ebuild
• diakonos-0.7.8.ebuild

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