I'm waiting for your "well written" patch since you seem to know so much.
This is a Free Software project and I do NOT appreciate being constantly insulted by the likes of you. Please LEAVE. Jeff On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 18:58, Raider wrote: > Hmm... maybe because Vim is well written an the bells and wistles are > less important to the authoring team and the performance is important? > Or because the developing team is more interested with solving one > problem instead of labeling problems as "unimportant" and closing the > case? > > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 01:19, David Hoover wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:54, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:30, Nils O. Sel�sdal wrote: > > > > I find it great having color on things you edit, makes it easier to > > > > read. I dont think I'd be wery happy if I e.g.edited some source > > > > code in vim, removed a quote " around a string, and vim didnt fix > > > > the color for the rest of the source when I put it back again.. > > > This is a completely separate issue, one is doing syntax highlighting > > > and the other is trying to be smart on arbitrary text that someone else > > > wrote. > > Isn't syntax highlighting more or less by definition, "be[ing] smart on > > arbitrary text that someone ... wrote"? > > > > Like when I use vim to edit my mailspool, and it's able to color it, and > > make citations cyan, based solely on the text? > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong but you're saying these two cases are > > "completely separate issue[s]": > > 1. vim (a text editor) looks at some arbitrary text in its > > buffer (which was typed, or read from a file, or whatever) > > and it goes "Hey, I've been told to color this using my rules > > for coloring email, so if it starts with >, make it cyan" > > 2. Evolution's mail composer (a text editor) has to look at some > > arbitrary text in its buffer (which was typed, or included > > when you hit reply, or whatever), and goes "Hey, I'm coloring > > this using my rules for coloring email (since that's all I > > ever do), so if it starts with >, make it cyan" > > > > How is it a completely separate issue? One's a text editor that has > > zillions of different rules to be able to syntax highlight any of a > > number of different text formats, and the other is a very specialized > > text editor, which would only need one set of rules explaining how to > > syntax highlight one type of text. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
