On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Joachim Lous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure Sun's code is nice, and maybe the display part of it can be > copied without too much overhead. But even if we don't, adding a > symbol gutter is in any case a pretty straightforward task. > > Should we be so lucky as to get some coding help, let's spend it > on the _hard_ and long-awaited things. > - Unicode - involves lots and lots of the code and is a real obstacle > to widespread use, > - Folding - probably requires fundamental redesigns in the text > widget > - Macro/hook/event/binding system - overdue for a revamp. I suspect you have never looked into the hooks which comes with Thorsten's Patch Collection? And I can understand it. Lucky you, I'm currently extracting the hooks code and will publish it shortly. For me the code works. Currently, only non-preemptabe hooks are supported, but this may change in the near future.
To the topic: I would made me available as a mentor for this. I'm currently in my baby year, which ends with this years August, so time isn't a big problem for me. I think folding would really be the most valuable feature to all of us, even I have never tried editing with folding, because I have never tried other editors ;-) Folding is a real programmer feature while unicode is more of the general purpose kind. And I think NEdit is a programmer editor. So my vote would be for folding. Anyway I have also a long lived idea that may also be interesting: How about a macro interface to the motif toolkit, ie a macro toolkit? So you can build new windows for all kinds of new ideas: a tags/tips browser, project file list, and so on. Bert -- NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
