From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T02:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] aeditor 1.0 released

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>
> > Can I ask you again to the exact reason why another fully evolved
> > editor like SciTE will not do ?
>
> Im obsessed by ruby. I want to be able to write plugins in Ruby.
> I want to be able to do changes in the editor core via plugins.
> It is not possible with Scintilla to have so much freedom in the
> plugins. What I want is maybe emacs ala ruby?
>
> At some point it could be interesting to integrate my editor widget into
> freeride, and see what happens.

It would, indeed, be interesting to see an aeditor freeride plugin. One of
the goals of freeride is to be an IDE written in ruby. Obviously, aeditor
fits right into that mold! If you decide to give it a go, we (the freeride
developers) will be happy to answer your questions and provide whatever
assistance we can.

You mentioned that you want to have editor plugins. Do you have this
already? The reason I ask is because freeride is entirely plugin based. Its
plugin management is handled by a completely independent piece of code we
call FreeBASE (pun intended) which handles plug loading, dependencies, and
inter-plugin communications.

Someday we are going to make a separate RubyForge project for FreeBASE to
make it more visible and accessible.

If you don't already have a plugin system, then you should consider
FreeBASE. Doing so would not only save you a lot of time, but would make
integration into FreeRIDE much easier.

Curt