Differences to the original ReText:
- Jekyll static website generator support: Preview the whole website
- Option to open the live preview automatically for new files.
- Is deployable with pyinstaller
- Download the lastest sources of the pyinstallers develop branch
- Enter
python pyinstaller.py --windowed visual-logic.py
in terminal / cmd.exe- On Windows the folder /dist/retext/ containing an .exe file is created
- On Mac the folder /dist/ will contain an an .app file
- Copy the icon folder into the new retext folder resp. into the app file
ReText is a simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup
languages. ReText is written in Python language and works on Linux and other
POSIX-compatible platforms. To install ReText, use setup.py install
command.
You can read more about ReText in the wiki.
ReText requires the following packages to run:
- python — version 3.2 or higher
- pyqt5
- python-markups
We also recommend having these packages installed:
- python-markdown — for Markdown language support
- python-docutils — for reStructuredText language support
- python-enchant — for spell checking support
The latest stable version of ReText can be downloaded from PyPI. You can
also use pip install ReText
command to install it from there.
Translation files are already compiled for release tarballs and will be
automatically loaded. For development snapshots, compile translations using
lrelease locale/*.ts
command. Translation files can also be loaded from
/usr/share/retext/
directory.
You can translate ReText into your language on Transifex.
ReText is Copyright 2011–2015 Dmitry Shachnev
and is licensed under GNU GPL (v2+) license, the current version is available in
LICENSE_GPL
file.
ReText icon is based on accessories-text-editor
icon from the Faenza theme.