On Thursday 03 October 2002 07:44 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 02:23 am, Phil Thompson wrote: > > Scintilla already implements code folding, syntax highlighting, call > > tips, autocompletion etc. The work I still have to do on it is to make > > those features available in a way that looks familiar to a Qt programmer. > > It would be really helpful if I had somebody wanting to make heavy use of > > it and telling me to order in which things should be done. Detlev is > > doing something similar in order to add Scintilla to eric. > > I'm very willing to make heavy use of it. In fact, from time to time I > start playing with writing one myself, which was one of the main reasons I > started using PyQt/PyKDE in the first place. I'm a long-term NEdit user, > myself, and really like it, but I'm starting to come up against some > annoying barriers -- not to mention I want something that integrates better > into KDE (and doesn't look like shit -- *cough* -- I mean Motif, no offense > to NEdit). I am NOT a member of the church of Emacs either. > > Personally, I'm looking for something like Kate/KWrite with better (i.e. > more configurable) syntax highlighting, and of course the ability to > register python code. :-) I'll be happy to rate my wants on a list of > proposed features. I've not seen Scintilla, but I thought about taking a > look at it. It's just that there doesn't seem to be a Debian package for > it, and I'm too lazy to build it myself. :-)
It's pretty slick and I used it as my primary editor for several weeks but ended up going back to Nedit. Nedit is butt ugly (dunno why that matters, but it still does <grin>) and doesn't have code folding but it loads up really really fast. Even though Scintilla only loads slightly slower, it bugged me. Of course, I'm running a PIII 500 so that may have something to do with it, but my editor needs to load very fast for it to be usable for me. I use a konsole instead of konqueror for file managment and development for the same reason. Seems like a Qt based Python app will always load signifigantly slower than a C++/Motif counterpart. The only other thing that I disliked about Scintilla was the code folding. I couldn't get it to behave exactly how I wanted and finally gave up on it. If I remember correctly, it was because the sub levels wouldn't remember how they were expanded if you collapsed an upper level and then expanded it again. Of course, that's a pretty little nitpick. All in all, Scintilla is the best alternative to Nedit I've used in the last couple years. Kedit/Kate/etc don't even come close yet. _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
