From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-09-01T07:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] aeditor 1.7

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 22:57, Mills Thomas (app1tam) wrote:
> I'm new to Aeditor and I probably should try it out.  I have a bias for
> emacs.  I've used it or one of its ancestors for two decades and have
> become used to being able to do just about everything in it.
>
> Having a general purpose language like Ruby on board might make one think
> that you plan on going down the emacs road with aeditor.  Could this be
> true?  Do you plan on making this a general purpose environment?

Im focusing primary on making the editor a good programming environment,
but a good environment has many faces.

for c++ good binding with debugger and compiler are required, maybe some
setup with an c++ interpreter so that you can change the code on the fly.
Similar with other languages.. interaction with debugger, jump to errors, 
tag-browser, code-completion, code-templates, refactoring tools. 

for webpages, xml, LaTeX other features are required. Check if document is 
valid, spellchecking, reflow-selection.

I believe that above things can be implemented via plugins loaded via the 
configuration files. Maybe I even move the editor itself to the configuration 
file, so only the frontend remain! 

There are other senarios which emacs can do, which im not looking into (yet),
such as mail client, games.  There is probably more senarios which emacs 
supports, but im not into emacs.

Another thing which I think we will see lot more of in the future is 
pair-programming. I have practiced it a few times and really like the idea, 
except that im not satisfied with what the current editors can offer.
Current editors assumes that only one person sits in front of the display,
and only cause confusion for the observing person. Above all I want to support 
this senario, but im still miles from being near any of those things that I 
imagined.  First I want to make it a good editor.. next I dig into this.

I have many visions of what it should become, but all these wonderful things 
takes time..  my primary goal at the moment is to improve AEditor so it can 
reach the critical point where people begins to like it (I still don't know 
if people likes its concept or not?).  Then I can begin on the interesting 
stuff. I guess that im on the emacs road...

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Simon Strandgaard