[PyKDE] subtle bug in eric3 editor

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 13:54, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 08.07.06 13:39:46, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 July 2006 13:09, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 08.07.06 12:39:30, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:23, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > Hmm, am I right that QScintilla is a Qt wrapper around Scintilla?
> > > > > Then I'll complain to the scintilla developers. This is definetly
> > > > > not a feature.
> > > >
> > > > You are right and please do so.
> > >
> > > Somebody already noticed this in 2003:
> > >
> > > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=676887&group_
> > >id=2 439&atid=102439
> > >
> > > I'm going to add a comment asking what the plans for this are.
> > >
> > > Do you see any chance of supporting other editors in eric3 (or 4)? For
> > > example I could imagine eric3/4 using KDE's KTextEditor interface and
> > > thus basically using kate as editor. How "integrated" is QScintilla
> > > into the eric3/4 IDE?
> > >
> > > Andreas
> >
> > I have no plans to support other editors, specially not KDE editors
> > because eric3/4 are supposed to work on Windows and Mac OSX as well.
>
> Well, KDE4 will run on Mac OSX and probably also on Windows. Also eric3
> already does support PyKDE if it is available.
>
> So what about the last question: How much is eric3 bound to QScintilla
> as editor and how much work would it be (for me, for example) to replace
> QScintilla with "something else"?

It is bound fairly tight to QScintilla because it uses it's API in quite some 
places. However, work hasn't started on the QScintilla integration for eric4 
(QScintilla2 isn't ready yet), which could give the opportunity, to design a 
more independant interface. Recommendations are welcome.

>
> Andreas

Detlev
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