[PyKDE] Editor survey

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 3:44 pm, Frederick Polgardy Jr 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. :-)

Tonight's snapshots of QScintilla and PyQt are probably the first to be useful 
as far as the high-level API is concerned - and the API is documented.

Phil