{"id":1271,"date":"2009-03-04T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2009-03-04T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:57:38","slug":"bespin-update-014-released-community-contributions-and-ben-dion-coming-to-london-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/03\/bespin-update-014-released-community-contributions-and-ben-dion-coming-to-london-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Bespin Update: 0.1.4 released, community contributions, and Ben & Dion coming to London next week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time flies when you are having fun, and the Bespin team seems to be having a lot!<\/p>\n

We just deployed version 0.1.4<\/a> to bespin.mozilla.com<\/a>, and this release has a lot of changes.<\/p>\n

The biggest infrastructure reboot is the fact that we are now using Dojo to power Bespin<\/a>, and this major contribution was lead by Roberto Saccon<\/a>. Major thanks to Pete Higgins, Dojo lead, to giving it all a once over and making sure that Bespin looks and runs as “Dojo-y” as possible.<\/p>\n

Roberto went on to fix a bunch of bugs and issues, and is now working on a much better syntax highlighter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jay Bird and Julian Vierect kindly made the editor nicer. You can now indent and un-indent as you would imagine (with TAB), and I added the notion of a setting autoindent<\/code> that when on (by running set autoindent on<\/code> in the command line) will keep track of your indent level when you hit RETURN.<\/p>\n

Extension points; Config and Commands<\/b><\/p>\n

We really want to offer great extension points, and we got a bit of the way there in this release. You can use the configuration system<\/a> to tweak your system. After opening your config.js (manually get into the BespinSettings project or just run editconfig<\/code>. Once there you can include other files, setup aliases, load commands, and run any code you wish.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

\n\/\/ -- Load up custom commands\npublish(\"bespin:commands:load\", { commandname: \"calculate\" });\n\n\/\/ -- Load in my aliases\ninclude(\"aliases.js\");\n\n\/\/ -- Load up sub systems of Bespin that aren't loaded by default\nrequire(\"bespin.syntax.arduino\");<\/pre>\n
You will notice that these functions are aliases to make life easier for you when in config scope.<\/p>\n
To create a custom command such as the calculate<\/code> one above, you simply create a new file in your BespinSettings\/commands<\/code> directory, and write a command object.<\/p>\n
Here is what the calculate command looks like<\/a>. Read about the various commands here<\/a>. We are also designing a simple plugin API, and would love comment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
There is a lot more in this release, and I want to thanks all of the contributors<\/a> who have already made working in the Bespin community so much fun.<\/p>\n
What else is happening in the community? Here are a few things:<\/p>\n