Editora 0.9.4: Expert mode
0.9.4 is a smaller, focused release. The main addition is a new way to clear the decks without losing your bearings.
Expert mode
Editora already had Zen mode for distraction-free writing, which hides essentially everything. That’s great for prose, but for coding you often still want the line numbers, the minimap, and the status bar, the things that tell you where you are.
Expert mode is the middle ground. It strips only the surrounding window chrome, the toolbar, tab bar, breadcrumb, tool stripes, and whitespace guides, but keeps the whole editor view: line numbers, status bar, minimap, column ruler, and the current-line highlight. You get a calm, focused surface that’s still a real coding view.
Toggle it however you like: C-c C-e, the command palette (View: Toggle Expert
Mode), Settings → Interface → Modes, the --expert launch flag, or the floating
“E” button in the top-right (mirroring Zen’s “Z”). Expert and Zen are mutually
exclusive, and like Zen it’s per-window and never touches your saved settings, so
leaving it restores everything exactly.
Build tools become tool windows
The build-tool integration (Maven, npm, Cargo, Go, Gradle) moved from main-toolbar icons to IntelliJ-style tasks tool windows. Each detected tool gets a stripe whose panel is a browsable tree of its goals, scripts, or targets, with a mini toolbar to run, reload, stop, or run a custom task, and the output streams to a separate per-tool console. The searchable actions popup is still a palette command away. Everything about detection and execution is unchanged; it’s just a roomier home than a toolbar button. See Build tools.
Workspace conveniences
- File Templates can now write straight into a folder you pick (a new Folder field in the wizard), and invoking New From Template… from a project folder pre-fills it.
- The Project tool window gained a New Folder… action and a right-click menu on the project root (create, reveal, terminal, local history, Git stage/revert), with rename left off the root so you can’t move the whole project by accident.
Fixes worth noting
The Cargo, Go, and Gradle tool-window icons had been rendering blank, their vendored SVG logos used a compact arc syntax JavaFX’s SVG parser can’t read, so they’re now clean Material glyphs, with a test guarding against un-parseable paths. And installing the Typst language server (tinymist) from the banner now actually activates it; the extracted binary’s path wasn’t being saved, so detection kept failing right after a “successful” install.
Get it
Download from the releases page. The full changelog is on the What’s New page.