On 30 November 2012 22:16, ☈king <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/30/2012 01:25 PM, dimitris chloupis wrote: >> Both #emacs and #vim show how popular both of these text editors are, >> why not pharo attract that crowd. > > Another part of this is just making UIs for editing non-Smalltalk code. > > If I had a good editor widget available, I could use it to make any > number of powerful other tools. >
But then you started from wrong end, isn't? You're free to implement own full blown text editor using smalltalk, as well as any other language. with any shortcuts you may like.. but you trying to sell it as "vi shortcuts for pharo".. which a bit strange. Because what is not clear to me, is where is the gain concretely for Pharo IDE and its tools. And don't take me wrong: i would be happy to have good rich-text editor widget with configurable shortcuts. But i just see key thing: it does not looks like absolute necessity to me (as for smalltalk developer). And if i would be a book writer or html "writer" you may get different opinion. But that's the point: there's already tons of text editors specialized for anything (but smalltalk).. which you can use right now, without need to wait till someone will implement it. So, why not use them? > —☈ > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
