From: Anthony Cagle <acagle@...>
Date: 2001-11-10T06:33:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24807] RE:  Windows Installer: SciTE instead of RubyWin?

Sorry to chime in late, but I got way behind on my reading.

I've been using Scite for about four months to do Ruby Programming on
Windows. I think it would be a great idea add it to the distribution. It's
not an IDE, but it certainly is one of the most productive tools I've run
across, especally in the Windows environment.

In fact, the only downside to using it is that I've become a bit addicted
and found myself using it on Linux also.

That's not bad, except that I'd always prided myself on being able to cope
with the idiosyncracies of vim.

By the way, after struggling to get the Ruby/Mysql interfaces working, I'd
vote for including that also.  I finally gave it because the process was
just too time consuming. It's unfortunate, beause it means the project I was
woking on will have to be done in Python on Windows. Not a complete loss for
Ruby, but it's frustrating to run into a roadblock like that on what seemed
like a straightforward project (and was in the Linux environment).

Just my 2 cents.
Anthony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hunt [mailto:andy@toolshed.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:38 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:23524] Windows Installer: SciTE instead of RubyWin?
>
>
>
> 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?
>
> Your ever humble servant,
>
> /\ndy
>
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