From: Rich Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T11:35:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23586] Re: Windows Installer: SciTE instead of RubyWin?

I say move to SciTE.  Scintilla is what underlies RubyWin as well, but SciTE seems to work a fair bit better.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org
> [mailto:ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org]On Behalf Of Robert Hicks
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:15 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: [ruby-talk:23577] Re: Windows Installer: SciTE instead of
> RubyWin?
> 
> 
> Andrew Hunt wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I hope everyone had a good time at the First Ruby Conference and/or
> > OOPSLA!
> > 
> > I had the oopportunity to see SciTE for the first time; it's basically
> > a syntax-highlighting code editor (with code-folding) that can run the
> > code as well.  It works with Ruby and a variety of other languages,
> > see http://www.scintilla.org for more details.
> > 
> > Question: Do you think this is complete enough, and do you like it
> >     enough, that I could include SciTE in the Windows Installer
> >     distribution instead of RubyWin?
> > 
> 
> [. . .]
>
> Sure! On another note...since Fox is in the distro now. Is anyone 
> working on an IDE based on FXRuby?

Well...the issue is that FXRuby is lightweight component based.  Scintilla would be a pain to integrate (since its "heavy"/native).  You would have to have a decent editing component in FXRuby to use it as an IDE.  Scintilla is open source...maybe some brave soul would be interested in moving that code in a Fox widget (and make it lightweight)?  I am not such a soul ;)

-Rich