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I have been doing some work to introduce a plugin system to Editra in order to allow for it to be easily extended beyond its core implementation. Editra's core implementation is meant to be a text editor that specializes in editing code. Part of the focus of this implementation focuses on keeping all core features as generally available to all supported languages and platforms, which in some cases is rather limiting.

This is where the plugin system comes into play. Through the plugin system any type of extra add-on can be incorporated into the editor. Currently I have an initial working draft of the code to allow for plugins, which is based upon concepts similar to the Eclipse IDE Extension Points and Trac Component Architecture.

I have uploaded a new version of Editra to editra.org today, this release comes less than a week from the previous release. It is mostly a bug fix release that I suggest all users to update to especially users of the Windows version. It also contains a few new minor features, but the next big features will be in the next version.

I recently installed Parallels Virtual Machine software on my Macbook and I got to say that this is some very good software. In fact right now I will go so far as to say that it is one of the most useful pieces of software that I have stumbled upon in a long time.

I have installed Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux with it and they both run with performance levels very close to what I would expect of them of they if were running standalone on the machine. The only performance issue that I have noticed is it is very slow to switch context from the VM window back to the host OS X. However this could be very well because of the low amount of RAM that I have in this laptop (512MB) for running this kind of software.