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User's Guide What Is Redcar

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What is Redcar?

Redcar is an open-source programmers’ text editor for Ruby, written in Ruby. It is designed to be compatible with Textmate bundles (a work in progress) and run cross-platform on JRuby. Redcar is currently in the middle of begin ported to JRuby, please subscribe to get updates on our progress.

Getting Help

Redcar has an active group of users. The users group is the best place to post questions concerning Redcar. The group at http://groups.google.com/group/redcar-editor. This books homepage is http://github.com/danlucraft/redcar/wikis/users-guide .

Conventions

The documentation in the User’s Guide follows the convention of naming tabs as Tabs instead of buffers or files. Tabs or both the UI representation and the data that make up it’s contents. When we want to refer to the data of the Tab we shall refer to it as the contents.

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