[PyKDE] Editor survey

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2002 21:27 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:

...

> 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.

Phil is already doing the job of getting Qt-Scintilla working from 
Python. So why not concentrate on the high level editor stuff. If you 
are about to write it yourself using PyQt, how about contributing an 
editor component for the next major release of Eric, which is supposed 
to be the first version with a whole bunch of IDE features like

- an editor (your contribution?)
- a project part (nearly finished)
- connection to Qt-Designer and Qt-Linguist and their tools (nearly 
finished)
- a class and module browser (already there in the current release of 
Eric)
- an interface to cvs and/or rcs (any contibutors?)
- an interface to pyunit (already in eric)
- a help browser (already in eric, an improved one is done)
- an interface to packagers (e.g. distutils, rpm, ...)(any contributors?)

Please send me comments and wishes.

Regards
Detlev

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Detlev Offenbach
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