From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T18:01:24+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi

Alexander Kellett wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:44:01PM +0900, Sascha Ebach wrote:
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>>Hi Alexander,
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>>>fancy a qt frontend? 300 lines of code for the 
>>>current version. fancy a gtk2 frontend? will
>>>come to around the same as soon as i get the
>>>energy to do it :)
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>>Oh my. That sounds great. Can't wait for that. It is amazing how fast 
>>you emulated so much functionality of vim with that little code. That 
>>should really give the static programming languages loving ppl something 
>>to think about. Great work!
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>thanks :)
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>note, there is basically zero ed implementation
>as of now. feature requests are generally finished
>pretty quickly though.
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>>Will there be a rumacs? Just joking ;)
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>i have nothing fundamental against providing
>emacs key bindings, just that i've no interest
>in coding it either as i put aside emacs for
>vi over 5 years ago already :)
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>have more interest in hacking on borland c++ 3.0
>style bindings in fact. so maybe when i've hacked
>that in emacs bindings could be done by someone
>with a clue :)
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>how many people are interested in a gtk2 frontend?
>if i can have a show of 5 or more hands then i'll
>prioritize this.
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Is the qt one useable on windows? If not i'd like to see a ruvi that can 
be run on windows. gtk2 should work but wxruby or fox might be better.

And emacs bindings would be great, btw. ;)

My 2 cents,

Robert