2005/11/18, Scott J. Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Mike Hearn wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:42:34 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > > >>By including gobby into the desktop, we now have an ordinary editor and a > >>collaborative editor. This will only serve to highlight a lack of > >>integration and people would only ask why we couldn't have an 'Edit > >>Together' button in the text editor. > > > > > > Given that these are both programmers text editors, why are either of them > > up for inclusion? How many of GNOMEs users are programmers? Wouldn't > > swapping out GEdit for AbiWord make more sense? > > Please no! :) I use gedit for things besides programming tasks. I > would rather compare gedit with something like vi (or gvim), since gedit > it a text editor _not_ a word processor.
Besides, if simply hilighting structured text in an editor (for readability) earns the title of "programmers editor", I will be browsing the web with my "programmers web browser". (AFAIK gedit hasn't got programming-oriented features that wouldn't be useful in other contexts too) -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
