thanks for the pointer.
Note also that we should get the textEditor done in CUIS and integrated in 
squeak.

Stef

On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Pollack wrote:

> 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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