From: Laurent Julliard Date: 2005-03-02T00:36:18+09:00 Subject: Re: FreeRIDE project - Call for help Alexander Kellett wrote: > (privmsg as at work) > > On Mar 1, 2005, at 4:08 PM, Laurent Julliard wrote: > >> Integrated debugger and script runner, easy to navigate Class >> browser... and soon (in 0.9.4) the integrated Ruby documentation which >> will allow you to get instant help on any class or method definition >> you are typing in the editor. I am already addicted to it... :-) > > > i'm interested in this. how can i download the version in which this is > possible? You can get it from CVS directly. Go to http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=31 and follwo th instruction > does it have a good cocoa frontend or at least pluggable frontends? i'd > be possibly > interested in making a qtruby4 frontend. On MacOSX it runs with the X Window server. It's a native Cocoa interface. > >> If only I had more contributors to FreeRIDE, customizable key-bindings >> would have been done long ago. There is however a limitation in the >> Scintilla editor that command keys can only be one key. Emacs uses a >> lot of double key commands which Scintilla does not support. > > > can the raw key events be caught and translated instead? > is the editor component pluggable? are the api's in freeride > scintilla specific or could an alternative editor frontend and > main frontend be plugged in? > Right now there is no abstraction layer for the editor it's direclty plugged in Scintilla > i'd like to make ruvi a component for freeride if possible. > there's no way that i'll find enough time to work on ruvi seriously > in the future and there's a lot of work in aeditor and freeride > and ruvi that i'd really love to reuse to make a kick ass > vim oriented ide with good documentation / irb integration > >> Want to join and make a difference ? > > > i'd *really* like to, tho i'm already very busy with other stuff, thusly > please excuse > me for the questions that i could likely answer for myself given some > more time... > hope you can don't mind :) > > Alex > -- Laurent JULLIARD Xerox Global Services Business Process Services Manager, Smart Documents Platforms Tel: +33 (0)4 76 61 50 48 Fax: +33 (0)4 76 61 51 99