From: Simon Strandgaard Date: 2006-05-02T02:16:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby based editor On 5/1/06, John Gabriele wrote: > On 5/1/06, Simon Strandgaard wrote: > > On 5/1/06, John Gabriele wrote: > > [snip] > > > You may want to have a look at "ne" (the Nice Editor). > > > http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/ > > [snip] > > > jumping-off point). It's written in C, and is GPL'd. I'd *love* to see > > > it get syntax highlighting and be scriptable with Ruby. Man that would > > > rock. :) > > > > syntax coloring is not easy to add. > > Understood. Also, I can guess that it might be easier or harder to add > depending on the design of the editor you're trying to add it to. > > > > > I did some editor work, but currently lacks time to complete it. > > http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/ > > Neat. > > Say, not to harp on FreeRIDE, but the project's sound very similar. > Just curious, why did you start your own editor project in Ruby > instead of working on FreeRIDE? I cannot recall. Something about that I wanted a lightweight editor, that would work both in console and gui mode, highly portable, using unicode, and scriptable in our favorite language. I am using TextMate, until again I find time/money to do editor. > Also, I saw on your site that you switched to dvorak. I switched a > couple years ago and my hands are much happier. :) Having used dvorak for ~6 months I have switched back to qwerty, because most keybindings favors qwerty :-( Using vim in dvorak mode was interesting. -- Simon Strandgaard