News

June 4 2009 - TEA 24.0.0 is available. This release has a few of new features. The Regexp mode has been added for searching and replacing stuff. The "Binary to decimal" function has been added. Other changes are - more UI tweaks for the smalls-screen devices, UI redesign at the Tune page, many fixes and small improvements - for example, all dynamic menus (such as Snippets or Scripts) can be teared off.

May 27 2009 - TEA 23.7.0 is available. The tables are came back. Now you can use the key-value tables to do a multiple-replacement within a document. And another feature will be useful for EEE PC and other note/netbooks users with small screens - now there is no limits to resize the main window.

May 25 2009 - TEA 23.6.0 is available.

Templates, snippets, etc. on Win32-port are FIXED. Thanks to Tovarish U for the bug report. Two functions were added to Functions - Math: Decimal to binary, Flip bits (bitwise complement).

May 21 2009 - TEA 23.5.0 is available!

Hi! Meet the "Markup - HTML tools - Strip HTML tags" function. Other news are - the built-in file manager now supports the drag and drop to the external world (to other programs), and built-in image can scale by using "+" and "-" keys.

April 20 2009 - TEA-Qt has been imported into the OpenBSD source tree - http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/editors/teaqt/.

April 17 2009 - TEA 23.4.0 is out. PHP and Lout syntax highlighting were added. Lout markup mode is available from the Markup - Mode submenu. The Famius Input Field can do a search at the Tune/Keyboard/Shortcuts list. From the new "View - Highlighting mode" menu you can select the highlighting mode manually. Some other improvements and fixes.

By the way, have a look at my new program - the audio player Neformal (http://neformal.sourceforge.net).

March 24 2009 - TEA 23.3.0 is out. Hello. The D language syntax highlighting has been added. "Fm - File information - Full info" can read WAV file properties and calculate the RMS (RMS is calculated for 16 bit PCM files only). The Enter key now works at the file name entry of the file manager. If user used Open file, Enter key acts to open file, if the "Save as" is used, Enter acts like fileman's "Save as" button.

March 07 2009 - TEA 23.2.0 is out. This release fixes many bugs, and brings FB2 documents read-only support and the "Sort case insensitively" function.

March 04 2009 - TEA 23.1.1 is out. The Verilog highlighting has been added. Indent/unindent were fixed. Some focusing fixes for the file manager. A useful option appears - meet Tune - Rare - Use wrap setting from highlighting module! When it turned on, the word wrapping settings will be taken from the syntax highlighting module. So, for the plain text or HTML the word wrapping will be off, but for the C++ or Pascal is on.

February 28 2009 - TEA 23.1.0 is out. This release brings to you the new built-in image viewer and indent/un-indent functions (including the automatic indent). Some important thing were fixed. A new options page has been featured - the "Rare".

February 12 2009 - The links to TEA packages and ports for OpenSUSE and CRUX are available from downloads page. Thanks to Detlef Reichelt and Ivan Rodionov!

February 9 2009 - TEA 23.0.0 is out. Here we are. ODT, DOCX, RTF, SLA, KWD, ABW, SXW, gzipped files read-only support. BASIC and LaTeX syntax highlighting. Batch image conversion and scaling (look into Fman - Image conversion). ZIP archives creation (the Fm - ZIP submenu). Tons of inner changes and fixes.

January 21 2009 - TEA 22.3.0 is out. This release features C# and Fortran syntax highlighting. A new function has been added - look at Functions - Text - Remove trailing spaces.

January 20 2009 - TEA 22.2.1 is out. Bugs were fixed!

January 18 2009 - TEA 22.2.0 is out. Almost all user menus such as Snippets, Scripts, Templates and Session now can hold a subdirectories. It means than TEA has the ability to show the subfolders as submenus. Other news: the search options are saving now; the Image viewer hides itself when the file manager lost a focus; the Famous input field has the autocompletion.

January 13 2009 - 22.1.0 packages for OpenSUSE are available. Made by Detlef Reichelt.

January 11 2009 - TEA 22.0.1 is out. This version has A LOT of inner changes and optimizations. Some new functions is also available - "Functions - Analyze - Count the substring" and "Functions - Analyze - Count the substring (regexp)".

January 02 2009 - TEA 22.0.1 is out.

First of all I'll make an important note. Due to inner changes, all your previous hotkeys were lost. Please assign the shortcuts again.

Let's speak about other things in TEA 22. The "Famous text entry" has been renamed to the "Famous Entry Field" (or FEF). So the "fte" object in scripts is renamed too.

The built-in file manager has a relatively new look and feel. Use the Backspace to navigate a directory upper. The image preview are is removed. The new image viewer is available as a separated tool windows.

Syntax highlighting engine has been fixed and improved. New highlighting modules are included: Seed7, NSIS. C/C++ and Pascal syntax highlighting is improved.

The UNITAZ text analyzer now can be called by two different functions: "UNITAZ quantity sorting" and "UNITAZ sorting alphabet".

There also a lot of fixes and inner changes.

December 21 2008 - TEA 21.1.3 is out. Some bugs have been fixed, UNITAZ has been improved.

December 20 2008 - TEA 21.1.2 is out. The Win32 build is available.

c/c++ highlighting has been fixed. A good old text analyzer UNITAZ is coming back - meet it at the Functions - Analyze menu.

December 18 2008 - TEA 21.1.1 is out. The Win32 build is available.

The syntax highlighting engine and Pascal highlighting rules have been fixed. Russian translation was updated.

December 16 2008 - a fine article about TEA on SUSE is available here. There are a lot of screenshots.

December 16 2008 - TEA 21.1.0 is out. The Win32 build is also available.

This release has a LOT of bugfixes and inner changes. There are no any new features. More of that, some things have been removed: the single instance mode and the "norwegian wood" UI style.

December 10 2008 - TEA 21.0.5 is out. The Win32 build is also available. Changes are:
+ File - File actions - Reload //i.e. revert to saved
+ File - File actions - Reload with encoding //use double click to reload current document with the selected charset

December 8 2008 - TEA 21.0.4 is out. The Pascal hl is fixed. Some other fixes was done.

November 23 2008 - TEA 21.0.3 is out. The spellchecker was fixed. The indicator for the spellchecker is added to make the progress visible on large documents.

November 27 2008 - TEA 21.0.2 is out. Ubuntu-related building error was fixed, some code was improved to speed-up TEA. Thanks to Anya for testing TEA on Ubuntu.

November 25 2008 - TEA 21.0.1 is out. There are some bugfixes. Ctrl-F is reassigned to focus the Famous text entry.

November 20 2008 - TEA 21 package for Frugalware are available. Made by Priyank M. Gosalia.

November 19 2008 - TEA 21 is out. The platform-independent source tarball and the win32 binary installer are available.

Hello! This release has many new features such as a new file manager, new text editor engine, QT Script support and more. Please note that the Famous text entry is now used as the search entry for the Manual too.

The text engine was changed from QTextEdit to QPlainTextEdit. It allows TEA to open large files quickly. New file manager now looks and feels more like a traditional mc-like file manager, i.e. with a simple files list instead of the files tree. Read the manual for details.

November 18 2008 - TEA 20 and TEA-GTK 17.6.6 packages for Frugalware are available. Thanks to Priyank M. Gosalia!

October 12 2008 - TEA 20.0.0 is out.

Yeah, the major release. Install and behold all new features! The syntax highlighting engine is rewritten, highlighting rules are not hardcoded anymore. You can add your own xml-files with hl rules. TEA comes with bundled rule-files for C/C++, Java, HTML, XHTML, XML and Pascal.

Palettes. Now you can select a color scheme from the View - Palettes menu. There are some presets, will be more later. Contribute your own palettes (see examples at the "palettes" directory and read the manual to know how to add a user palettes).

A new function "[X]HTML Tools - Preview selected color" helps you to see a selected (within the text) color. The documentation browser was redesigned - it has a search bar and a find/find next functions integrated with a main menu.

A lot of other improvements, fixes, etc. Currently the new hl engine need to be tested, and xml-files for it must be polished - I need some time to do that. Stay tuned!

P.S. At http://www.oemissario.com.br/english/playlist/semiletov/peter_in.html a fresh interview with me is available. Speaking about a music projects, war, capitalism and of course TEA.

September 16 2008 - TEA 17.6.6 package for Fedora is out. Thanks to Michael Krylov.

September 7 2008 - TEA 19.1.1 Win32 build is available.

September 3 2008 - TEA 19.1.1 is out. The "Apply to each line" function was fixed.

August 31 2008 - TEA 19.1.0 is out. Some features of good old TEA are coming back. Meet the Enumerate function and the sessions support. Please read the manual to learn how to save new sessions. Some other new stuff is listed at ChangeLog.

August 26 2008 - TEA 19.0.0 Crux port is available at the Downloads page. Made by Ivan Rodionov.

19.1 is coming soon - when I'll recover my system after the HDD disaster. To spend some time, have a look at my new public domain music album Atomnaya Smena.

August 10 2008 - TEA 19.0.5 is out. Bugfixes related to the file manager and the spellchecker.

August 07 2008 - Vector Linux and Zenwalk packages for TEA-GTK 17.6.6 is ready. Made by Paul Marwick.

August 06 2008 - TEA-GTK 17.6.6 is out. The bug related to adding of new encoding is fixed.

August 04 2008 - TEA 19.0.1 is out.

The single instance mode is available under Windows. "Preferences - Override locale" option is added. Russian translation was fixed.

August 02 2008 - TEA 19.0.0 is out. This release contains two major features for UNIX-users (in Win32 versions those features are disabled due to technical reasons). The single instance mode - open all files with the same program instance. Good! The built-in file manager - replaces standart Save/Open dialog windows. For sure, you can use "Preferences - Use traditional File save/open dialogs" option to bring them back.

Some bugs were fixed. The new UI style is added. Save/Open dialog windows now remembers their size. "Quotes to facing quotes" is added.

July 18 2008 - TEA 18.1.1 and TEA-GTK 17.6.4 Frugalware packages are available at the Downloads page. Thanks to Priyank Gosalia!

Vector Linux and Zenwalk packages for TEA-GTK 17.6.5 is ready. Made by Paul Marwick.

July 14 2008 - TEA 18.0.3 is out. Qt 4.4 compatibility is gained! TEA doesn't crashes on start.

July 12 2008 - TEA-GTK 17.6.5 is out. As you see, the GTK-branch of TEA is alive and active. This release includes German manual by Hans Faehrmann, and small bugfixes.

TEA 18.0.1 is out. Source code and win32-binaries are available. This release features the "Additional highlighting" mode (to highlight the current line and matched braces) and the scripting functionality (read the manual about Scripts at the Functions chapter).

July 07 2008 - TEA-Gtk was separated to the new SF-package. TEA-GTK 17.6.4 is out.

July 04 2008 - TEA 18.0.0 is out.

Hello! Each program must moving forward, otherwise it dies. As you noticed, there are no any significant new features in TEA during last time. Just traditional bugfixes, documentation fixes, small improvements, etc. It's boring for me. Hey, what's new? Some neat bugfixes, of course! TEA was driven by inertia.

This release is rewritten from zero. A new, Qt-based TEA. An old GTK-branch will be supported just to be up-to-date with next GTK versions.

TEA 18 is available for UNIX-like systems and Windows. TEA 18.0.0 can be unstable. TEA 18 currently lacks a half of good old TEA features. Some of them will be re-implemented soon, some of them are excluded for different reasons.

So, TEA takes a second breath. I think this branch will exists 5 years or more, then TEA will reborn in a new form (possibly as a web application runned on server, something like Google docs) - actually, I don't know and don't care. TEA is a mind, a spirit, not a body. It is a set of features. The implementation may vary.

Comments, patches, translations - feel free to contribute. New TEA is under GPL v3; and manual, translations (made by myself), icons are the public domain.

P.S. Read the manual - it is under the "learn" tab.

July 02 2008 - TEA 17.6.3 packages for Zenwalk and Vector are available at Downloads page. Thanks to Paul Marwick!

New albums of my music project Atomnaya Smena are on this Jamendo page.

June 26 2008 - TEA 17.6.3 is out. With this release, GTK-branch of TEA has a new name: teagtk. So, to run "old fashioned", GTK-based TEA, use "teagtk" command instead of "tea". Package maintainers (except for Debian), please note that installation dir was changed to "teagtk" too. All that things was done to give the ability to run GTK-based TEA and a new Qt-based one simultaneously (both branches shares the same configs).

June 23 2008 - packages for Debian and Ubuntu is updated. See (Downloads page). Thanks to Marco Rodrigues.

June 14 2008 - my debute music album is released on Jamendo. TEA 18 is coming soon.

June 5 2008 - TEA 17.6.1 package for Open SUSE is released by Detlef Reichelt.

June 4 2008 - Paul Marwick made TEA 17.6.1 package for Vector Linux and package for Zenwalk.

June 3 2008 - TEA 17.6.1 is out.

This release fixes all bugs those I've found. Morse coder, spell-checker, etc. Much of the code was cleaned.

A current version is a last from the 17.x branch. During this summer I'll release a new, rewritten from scratch TEA 18. The development of such "next-generation" began at autumn 2007. Be patient :)

May 05 2008 - TEA 17.6.0 for Vector Linux, and GtkSourceView 2 (for Vector) is here. Thanks to Paul Marwick.

March 25 2008 - TEA 17.6.0 Zenwalk package is available. Made by Paul Marwick.

March 15 2008 - look into the Downloads page! Fresh Frugalware and Debian packages with TEA 17.6.0 are available!

March 13 2008 - TEA 17.6.0 package for SUSE is available. Made by Detlef Reichelt.

March 13 2008 - TEA 17.6.0 package for Fedora is out. Thanks to Michael Krylov.

March 8 2008 - TEA 17.6.0 is out.

Meet a lot of fixes. Hooraaay! I know that web-coders will be happy with a new function. Look at Markup - HTML Tools - Check for broken links. As it checks the remote files (via http), you need to install libcurl first. No libcurl - no "Check for broken links". So the libcurl is a non-mandatory dependency. Stay tuned.

January 26 2008 - TEA 17.5.4 package for Zenwalk is available. Made by Paul Marwick.

January 16 2008 - TEA 17.5.4 package for Fedora is out. Thanks to Michael Krylov.

January 12 2008 - TEA 17.5.3 Frugalware package is available. Made by Priyank Gosalia.

January 11 2008 - TEA 17.5.3 is out.

Meet a turbo-speed Preferences window! The Encodings page there was redesigned with custom control elements (so-called mega-fancy-buttons). Some bugs were fixed. As usual.

January 09 2008 - TEA 17.5.2 is out.

Some encoding autodetection improvements. See the ChangeLog and the Manual for details. Russian and English manual are updated.

January 07 2008 - TEA 17.5.1 is out.

Bugfixes. Yes. Definitely. ODT files opens fine. TAB-pressing is fixed too. No crap anymore. Stay tuned.

December 30 2007 - TEA 17.5.0 is out.

So, now we have some UI improvements and inner changes. Frankenstein's monster says: "Good!". Yes, it can be good, but can be a little buggy, so test it. The Famous text entry has autocompletion again. Good. Encoding chooser now works more intuitive. Good. A file filter in the File open dialog now remembers a last used filter. Good. And a total code cleanup!

November 16 2007 - TEA 17.4.1 package for Fedora is out. Thanks to Michael Krylov.

And - behold the new album of Kostny Mozg (where I am a guitarist and one of singers), "Man With No Number" - http://kmozg.by.ru/diskography.en.html. All songs are in public domain.

November 12 2007 - TEA 17.4.1 is out. English manual is updated. French translation updated by Sylvain Cresto.

November 11 2007 - TEA 17.4.0 is out.

Hi. This release has no significant new features. Just updates and bugfixes. Czech translation is updated by Zbyněk Mrkvička. Many list scrolling bugs were fixed. Mispelled words have a new, fancy underline. At "Preferences - Functions - Date format for Save version" you can define a timestamp format for "Save version". Default is "%Y-%m-%d-%T" (yes, the month after the year). Some imageviewer improvements.

//updated: 18 November 2008, by Peter Semiletov