From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T01:21:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] aeditor 1.0 released

On Monday 05 July 2004 18:06, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
> >> Can I ask you again to the exact reason why another fully evolved
> >> editor like SciTE will not do ?
>
> SS> Im obsessed by ruby. I want to be able to write plugins in Ruby.
> SS> I want to be able to do changes in the editor core via plugins.
> SS> It is not possible with Scintilla to have so much freedom in the
> SS> plugins. What I want is maybe emacs ala ruby?
>
> emacs has about 100.000 lines of C code to avoid the slowness of
> elisp. This are not inside files like buffer.c and do not belong to
> the lisp interpreter core.

wew.. thats many lines, my project has ~3400 lines of source code
and ~2000 lines of testcode at the moment.

my old editor had many more lines and could do some other things:
folding, undo/redo/macros. It had much more testcode.. I have become
a better tester since that time, and writes simpler tests.
I believe the new editor is somewhat better tested than the old.

my current intent is to keep it small and only use ruby. In the past
I had an idea about writing the frontend in C++, to obtain speed.
I think the speed of the current ruby implementation are acceptable.
No need for C++.

when I get back from my 3 week vacation in the us, I will focus on 
only blitting the dirty areas to the display.. and only do lexing of the
current line (lexing really takes long time).

I hope that I can release an editor package, that works on windows before 
saturday, where I go on vacation.

any kind of patches are warmly welcome (hint)   :-)

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Simon Strandgaard