[PyQt] Here are some images to demo the kind of text editor app I am envisioning; what widgets should I base the app around?

[Brian Merchant]

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Brian Merchant <bhmerchant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have made some images to demo a text-editor like app I'd like to make;
> http://imgur.com/a/2OKph
>
> Some features are very familiar: type text to enter it, auto-complete
> boxes, etc.
>
> Some features are not so familiar: you can drag and drop some elements of
> the text to "flip" their position, some keywords are automatically
> converted into symbols when typed, and so on.
>
> My plan is to use PyQt4.
>
> I am wondering, should I just I just take the QTextEdit widget and derive
> a class from it, and then it should be possible to get the kind of design I
> am thinking of? Or should I be thinking about doing this in a different way?
>
> Kind regards,
> Brian
>
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