After all the work getting the editor ( https://github.com/jpfxgood/ped ) to Python 3 and getting the test coverage to 78% and fixing a lot of bugs, I also wanted to do some improvements. I worked hard on getting the optimal redraw to work and the terminal cursor was still being a problem so I turned it off and now render my own cursor. I also had to redo a lot of the code that managed multiple views so that they would render efficiently and also keep their cursor positions when you changed frames or current files and updates in other windows are properly reflected in all the windows. I also made it easier to see which frame is current when there are multiple frames and cleaned up a bunch of over refreshing in the dialog code as well.
I made it so that editing a new file doesn’t create the file until you save it and also the editor now warns you if the file you are editing has been modified on disk.
I optimized the code for recoloring the current file and now it runs very fast reducing or eliminating any flashes when it has to catch up.
So, given all the improvements and the testing I decided to mark that moment with a v1.0.0 release. I’ll try to do patch releases relatively frequently as I find and fix other things ( two seconds after the v1.0.0 release I found several things and fixed them…)
It’s been a lot of fun getting this code cleaned up and improving the testing, I’ve spend hours at a time in a kind of flow state just coding and debugging. I even forgot to get lunch a few times, which I never do…