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README.md

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+Redtree: A Superior Ruby Parser
+===============================
+
+**Homepage**:     [http://carboni.ca/projects/p/redtree](http://carboni.ca/)      
+**Git**:          [https://github.com/michaeledgar/redtree](http://github.com/michaeledgar/redtree)   
+**Author**:       Michael Edgar    
+**Copyright**:    2011   
+**License**:      MIT
+**Latest Version**: none   
+**Release Date**: None, yet.
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+Redtree is a Ruby parser in the spirit of Ripper and Melbourne, but with additional capabilities. It carries with it the entire shift-reduce sequence and token boundaries, so a consumer of a Redtree parse tree knows exactly where each token occurred.
+
+Redtree was borne out of the [Laser](https:/github.com/michaeledgar/laser) project, which needs to be able to rewrite source code token-by-token (including whitespace, a typically ignored token) for proper style-linting. It is also difficult to extract correct line numbers from a Ripper parse tree, and impossible to reliably obtain column numbers from Ripper or Melbourne. Hence: Redtree.
+
+Feature List
+------------
+                                                                              
+Details are always forthcoming, but:
+
+**1. Full Token Information**: Each internal node of the parse tree knows exactly which tokens (or other internal nodes) composed the node's reduction during parsing. Every token is available, including its line/column start and end points.  
+**2. Comment Nodes**: Attaching comments to nodes is a task required of documentation tools, linters, static analyzers, and so on. Yet no Ruby parser adequately includes comments when necessary.
+**3. Compact Representation**: Including this much information is possible with a compact, simple representation. Redtree incorporates this design to minimize its space use.
+
+Installing
+----------
+
+To install Redtree, use the following command:
+
+    $ gem install redtree --prerelease
+
+(Add `sudo` if you're installing to a directory requiring root privileges to write)
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+When it works, I'll add it here. I promise.
+
+Changelog
+---------
+
+- **Aug.29.2011**: Project initiated.
+
+Copyright
+---------
+
+Redtree © 2011 by [Michael Edgar](mailto:adgar@carboni.ca).
+Redtree is licensed under the MIT license. See {file:LICENSE}.