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Re: GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)


From: John Swensen
Subject: Re: GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:41:17 -0500


On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:23 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

On 25-Nov-2008, John Swensen wrote:

| 4) Syntax-highlighting editor (50% : there are still some bugs and
| debugging isn't incorporated yet.  I would also like better emacs
| keybindings, search capability, code completion, blah, blah blah, but
| that is a ways off)

Can't you just use any editor?  Why must we write our own editor?  I
for one would not want a built-in editor that sort of had Emacs-like
keybindings.  I would want Emacs.

jwe

You can definitely use any editor you want, and if there was some way to put emacs into the IDE I would do it, but that just simply isn't possible. And in the long run, I am not fully implementing a new editor. I am using a GTK widget called GtkSourceView which is used in a whole slew of other IDE's and source code editors. The nice thing about having an incorporated editor of some sort is the ability to set and modify breakpoints visually.

For the most part, I agree with the sentiments of many on this list that an IDE is probably a draw for entry-level Octave users and the features of an IDE become less important as a person becomes more experienced.

John Swensen


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