Blake Ross wrote:
> Peter Lairo wrote:
>
>> Go reread my post - you didn't understand what I sayd.
>>
>> Here, I'll spell it out for you:
>>
>> 1. I NEVER said text editing would be easy to progream. I just said
>> that I thought it would be easy. A simple "No, I'ts quite comlicated
>> because..." would have sufficed.
>
> No, it's quite complicated because... (a) there are only 2-3 people
> sometimes working on the Editor backend and (b) the html editor is
> largely dependent on the layout engine, which has bugs of its own.
Um... He's talking about the text editor that I'm currently using to
type this message, *not* the HTML editor. I have no doubt that the HTML
editor is hugely complicated. However, simple text editing has been a
"solved problem" since the 70s.
And for people who want advanced text editing, having the capability to
shell out to an external text editor would greatly reduce the burden on
the Mozilla programmers. i.e. Why not let vim and emacs provide the
high-powered editing, and leave simple editing to Mozilla?
David
