ANN: eric v. 3.5.0 available

[Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath]

Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath wrote:
> Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am proud to announce the immediate availability of eric v. 3.5.0. It is
>> available via
>>
>> http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://eric-ide.sourceforge.net
>>
>> This release includes some new features and a bunch of usability
>> enhancements. For details see the attached release notes.
>>
>> Regards
>> Detlev
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> This is a feature relase of the eric3 Python IDE. The most notable 
>> feature enhancements are:
>>
>> Editor:
>> - multiple views to the same document
>> - lexer support for Perl and Bash
>> - automatic syntax checks of Python files upon save/open
>> - syntax check for Quixote page template files
>> - autosave feature
>> - limit the effect of a search and search/replace to a range of lines
>>
>> Debugger:
>> - show contents of simple Qt-types while debugging
>> - add breakpoints while the debugger is executing
>>
>> Python shell:
>> - a Python shell based on the QScintilla widget with autocompletion,
>>   calltips and syntax highlighting
>>
>> Interface:
>> - new dialogs to compare files
>> - enhanced the file/class browser
>> - a new window layout called "floating windows"
>> - a new icon set based on crystal icons
>>
>> Translations:
>> - French translations
>>
>> Others:
>> - improved Subversion integration
>> - drag and drop support
>> - single instance mode
>> - enhanced unicode support
>>
>> Please note that Python versions prior to 2.2.0 are not supported 
>> anymore.
> 
> 
> How do you change the font used to display the python shell?
> 
It's just that each line overwrites half the height of the previous line.

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Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath,
Dept. Computing and Information Science,
Kansas State University, US.
web: http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~rvprasad