From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-01-01T04:39:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29885] Re: FXRuby FreeRIDE Spike uploaded.

> From: rcalco@mindspring.com [mailto:rcalco@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:47 AM
>
> I dislike overambitious editors, especially in the color coding
> area. I like reserved words and operators being blue, comments
> being green, strings in purple, directives in dark gray, and
> everything in some monospace font, preferably lucida console. I
> don't like color coding everything from identifiers to module
> names to constants and so on... That loops more like Fruit Loops
> on my screen than code.

Your short-list of preferred color-coding precisely matches my own.

> Scintilla's over-ambitious, gaudy color coding is something of a
> turn-off for me. (And by the way I know it can be easily
> customized to my liking, I would simply underutilize its color
> coding capabilities by about 80%).

This is exactly what I would do for the default settings. Obviously, some
people must like fruit-loop-screens, and they should at least be able to
customize their way to psychedelic heaven.

> Things I DO like in an editor besides modest color coding (and I
> know they are separate features really):
 [snip]

Yes, yes, yes. I consider these to be essential features.

I would appreciate it if you would take a look at the FreeRIDE wiki page
(http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FreeRIDE) and add any of these
features that are not already mentioned.

Thank you,
Curt