Thank you Tudor, thats looks definitely very useful . I am downloading it now and studying it :)
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote: > The first suggestion is to not invest in the PluggableTextMorph :) > > Ideally, we should get the new text widget soon, but in the meantime, you > would be better with using Rubric. It is a pragmatic solution developed by > Alain Plantec and that works now. This is where we are going with the > Glamorous Toolkit at the moment. You find it already in the Moose image, or > you can download it from here: > http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~AlainPlantec/Rubric > > Cheers, > Doru > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:44 PM, kilon alios <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello guys, I have started a new experiment of mine, a tool I call >> "Talos". I want Talos to become workspace on steroids. >> >> The first thing I want to implement is emacs like navigation. With that I >> mean keyboard shortcuts for moving inside the text like you can do with >> arrow keys already and the ability to move to the next word , the first >> character of next word, the last character of next word , previous world, >> quickly rename variables and all the great things one can do with emacs and >> vim. >> >> Of course I don't want to do all that at once, one step at a time. >> >> Now I have take a look at Workspace and it seems that it uses >> PlaggableTextMorph , it also looks like I can get the contents via >> PluggableTextMorph>>text instance side. The source code returned is also >> send to RBParser using the parseBlock method , I think for syntax >> highlighting. >> >> However because the PluggableTextMorph is very big and it does not even >> have a class comment, though quite a lot of methods are commented, I am >> really open to advice and suggestions on to how to parse the contents and >> manipulate the cursor position. >> >> I know I could use PettitParser but I dont know if there are better >> options out there, or maybe I am doing the whole thing wrong. >> >> So any advice and suggestion is more than welcomed. >> > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Every thing has its own flow" >
