[PyKDE] Editor survey

[Boudewijn Rempt]

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On Thursday 03 October 2002 21:05, Frederick Polgardy Jr wrote:
> On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:40 am, Greg Fortune wrote:
> > It's pretty slick and I used it as my primary editor for several weeks
> > but ended up going back to Nedit.
>
> Yeah, I keep doing the same. :-)  I'm not *extremely* concerned about it
> starting up as fast as Nedit -- Nedit starts up *reeeeally* fast.  I've
> tried to use kwrite for awhile, and the startup time doesn't bother me
> nearly as much as other stuff about it (e.g. complete lack of features).  I
> like the Nedit scripting capability, but I'm trying to keep the number of
> scripting languages I know to a minimum.  Too little free space in my head
> as it is. :-)  (Same reason I won't learn elisp for Emacs.)  That's why a
> Python-scriptable editor would be perfect.  But you're right that it has no
> hope of starting as fast as Nedit does.
>

Nedit has one big disadvantage -- one that made me switch to XEmacs 
completely. Motif applications can't handle a utf-8 locale. The file
dialogs simply don't work anymore. Anyway, since I practically live in
my editor, it doesn't matter much to me how fast it starts.

I'd be using Kate if it included a macro language, I've begin writing an
editor in pure PyQt -- down to the bit that puts the glyphs on screen,
but I wound up doing other things. And the example application in my
book on PyQt is an editor, but that's simply a wrapper for QMultiLineEdit.

If I can get Qt-Scintilla working from Python, I'd probably wind up writing
my own anyway... It's fun.


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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org
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