From: Randy Kramer Date: 2005-08-28T04:30:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Good cross-platform IDE / multiple document text editor for ruby / rails? Hmm, maybe I should have said something about why I'm not considering nedit for the editing component: * I am, but for one thing I haven't discussed it so far with the nedit developers, and there are a few (potential problems) * I'm not sure that it is currently available as a component, nor that anyone is working on such, nor that any of the developers would have any interest in supporting / helping make it into a component * folding in nedit is not well supported--what I mean is that my folding macros really fold and unfold a line (i.e., either show a block of text as a block of text, or fold (unfold) it into one long line that stretches off to the right--as long as I view lines like that with wrap set to none, the line does stretch far off to the right and I can treat it as folded--there is no (simple) way to really hide text in nedit * a minor issue is the somewhat dated look due to the Motif/Lesstif stuff that it is based on * nedit expects that if I send text to another application the other application will send back something to be inserted into the file in place of that text (therefore it deletes that text--I need to make that behavior optional so that text sent to another application is not deleted (of course, a workaround is to have that other application send back a copy of the original text--I'm not sure how difficult that might be, and in any case it is more cumbersome than necessary) There may be some other issues that I can't think of or am not aware of at the moment. If I haven't said it earlier, nedit is snappy in my machines with the typical mix of applications I run. regards, Randy Kramer On Saturday 27 August 2005 03:17 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 07:56 pm, Lothar Scholz wrote: > > Sounds like a challenge. But please contact me, if you want to > > participate in a little experiment. > > I'll start by saying "maybe". ------