Armin K. wrote:
On 23.07.2015 02:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Douglas R. Reno wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Fernando de Oliveira
<[email protected]> wrote:
It is only listed for Mousepad-0.4.0, which has also listed
gtksourceview-3.16.1 as alternative, thus, not really required to be in the
book, but I may be wrong. ISTR Bruce gave a reason for keeping it, long ago.
Any reason for not archiving, please?
I can confirm that it will build and work with gtksourceview-3.16.1.
Just tested it, built and functioned without problems.
The description for gtksourceview says it highlights syntax source
code. I use vim for that, but does mousepad do syntax highlighting of c source
code without gtksourceview?
It's a text editor widget, not just for highlighting. If the package
is to be archived, the mousepad can't be built with GTK+2 support,
thus forcing users to use GTK+3 even if they do manage to build Xfce4
without GTK+3 at all.
As far as I know, it's the only decent GTK+2 editor still available
in the book (Bluefish is GTK+3, Emacs ... no clue, and probably too
complex to be considered by many).
gvim is gtk2 based.
I used to use emacs a lot. For programmers who understand Lisp, it's a
very good editor. It's easy to add personal or more general macros.
There were two reasons I needed it at the time. The first was that it
was before vim and vi was/is crude by comparison. The second was that
there was a very sophisticated macro for it that I needed to format my
dissertation properly (the format proctors are *very* picky). The table
of contents, list of figures, list of tables, index, margins, etc had to
be *perfect*. With that macro (actually a set of macros), I was able to
print my dissertation with no corrections needed.
Using emacs has a bit of a learning curve with CTRL-this and ALT-that,
but it is powerful. Today I look at the features of vim and emacs as
equivalent. It just boils down to a preference or knowledge of
keystroke combinations.
-- Bruce
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