From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-03-01T14:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRIDE project - Call for help

Ben Giddings wrote:
> Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Frankly, I'd be interested in an emacs mode even though I don't use 
>> emacs.
> 
> To be clear, you mean a FreeRIDE mode that makes it seem like Emacs?

Yes, but I'd also favor "hooks" into FR for the emacs gurus who want to
control it via emacs.

>> And I have done some work along the lines of programming Scintilla with a
>> nice Ruby API. See my 2003 RubyConf presentation (somewhat out of date 
>> wrt
>> refactoring, as we now have rrb, I guess).
> 
> So that API would allow (easy?) keybindings from FreeRIDE, making Emacs 
> emulation possible?

In theory, yes. In practice I wasn't thinking of editor emulation, but
just the ability to write sophisticated scripts.

It's been months since I looked at it, and I can't recall how easy/hard
it would be to associate keybindings.


Hal