Arun Chaganty

Overengineering since 1989


OnTheFly - Tomboy Addin

Supports on the fly wikitization.

Note OnTheFly has been pwned by this plugin .

Example + Features

Supports the following formatting tags:

  • *bold* = bold
  • /italic/ = italic
  • +strikethrough+ = strikethrough
  • =highlight= = highlight

Planned Features

  • More tags: Links, etc.
  • Chaining of patterns. E.g., */ /* gives bold-italic
  • More to come…

Download and Installation

You can grab the code from github

The installation procedure is extremely simple, just execute a “make” followed by “make install”. No superuser privileges are required. You will need Tomboy and the Mono compiler, gmcs. On Debian/Ubuntu, this is called mono-gmcs.

Known Bugs

  • It throws a lot of creepy warning messages (seen only if you

run it manually from the terminal). I use a Gtk.TextBuffer.Delete () call,

  and this possibly causes a lot of TextIters to become invalid.  The funny
  thing is that I don't have any invalidated TextIters in my code.

If you find any bugs, please send me an email at arunchaganty[at]gmail.com.