From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T01:44:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Scriptable text editor with Ruby?

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Embed the Ruby interpreter in the text editor itself? Then just make certain
functions available to Ruby and script away.

Jason

On 1/3/07, Dolazy <francis.rammeloo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Vim and emacs are text editor that can be scripted using internal
> script languages. I'm thinking of writing a platform independent text
> editor myself that uses the ruby language for executing scripts. The
> host application would be written in C++ (+Qt) and it would somehow be
> able to interact with ruby.
>
> I think there are basically two ways of implementing this interaction:
> - using IPC
> - command line interaction (host executes the ruby script with
> parameters and catches the output)
>
> IPC is the most powerful I think, but then again I have various options
> to achieve this communication:
> - TCP
> - XmlRpc
> - shared memory
>
> I'm very new to the concept of inter-process-communication and I would
> greatly appreciate your insights on how I would best proceed to achieve
> this interaction.
>
> Or maybe there is a more obvious and straightforward approach that I
> overlooked?
>
> Best regards,
> Francis
>
>
>

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