On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Lukas Renggli <[email protected]> wrote: > > Safara was an attempt to implement a replacement for the current text > editor, where nothing was hardcoded but everything could be configured > by the tool (highlighting, completing, shortcuts, ...). Unfortunately > this project never made it into a useable state. Writing a text editor > is difficult. > > I hadn't heard of Safara, but SVI ( http://map.squeak.org/package/ab5ae6be-b705-40a2-8d63-a992442086ec) is (in my opinion) a very successful attempt at modernizing the editor. It comes with vim- and Emacs-like keybindings, which include shortcuts for selecting and navigating through blocks, paren groups, messages and the like--exactly what we're talking about here. It doesn't run on Pharo or trunk Squeak, but it worked just fine in heavy use for me on Squeak ~3.6 through 3.9. I don't have the time to make it run on Pharo right now, but I doubt someone with sufficient motivation would have *that* much of a problem getting it running comfortably. If I recall correctly, the main effort was going to be updating the OmniBrowser integration.
--Benjamin
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