From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-07-13T19:21:39+09:00
Subject: Re: New C/ruby powered editor

On 13/07/06, Phil Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been hacking away at a new editor for a while and have come up with
> 'Vela'. I've uploaded it to SF (no web page as shell access is down) and
> would love for you to download it and give me a quick opinion (what would
> you like to see, is the API ok, what am I doing wrong, etc...).
>
> It's not really usable yet but you can get the gist of things. Also I've
> only tried compiling it on Linux/gcc (cygwin defiantly won't work yet).

I managed to compile it on OS X PPC (had to do 'chmod +x install-sh'
to get 'make install' to work, though). It works, but I keep getting
stuck in the debug buffer and I can't get out! I can't really say any
more ...

In vela.rb, all the empty parentheses after method calls without
arguments are a bit un-idiomatic, e.g. 'EDITOR.get_buffers().size()'
or 'if not b.filename?()'.

Paul.