From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-08-13T05:44:49+09:00
Subject: Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 02:56:48 +0900, Recheis Meinrad wrote:

> 
>> Try out AEditor and tell me if AEditor works on your 
>> machine. Please report if there is any problems.
>> Ideas + Suggestions for improvements is welcome :-)
>> 
>> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=aeditor
> 
> No replies ?

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> they dont mean to ignore your post intentionally, but
> you know, there is a really good editor distributed with ruby.
> SciTe. That's the reason why i haven't tried AEd. I allready got
> familiar with SciTe. 

Yes, SciTe is a decent editor. Hopefully one day AEditor can replace it.
Internally SciTe is using the rich-edit-widget, Scintilla.
Scintilla is unfortunatly written in C++ and has no unittesting.
Otherwise its quite nice.

FreeRIDE is using Scintilla as its editor-widget. I hope one day to 
entirely replace Scintilla-widget with the AEditor-widget. 

also IntelliJ-Idea has many nice features which I hope AEditor will get.
http://www.intellij.com/idea/
examples of its features [ripped from intelliJ's feature list]:
* rename method, The renaming functionality allows you to rename any 
  package, class, method or variable and automatically finds and corrects 
  all references to it.
* Moving classes and packages with reference correction.
* extract method, Select a block of code and invoke Extract Method to 
  turn it into a method. It will automatically analyze the code to 
  detect which variables of the original method must be passed to the 
  extracted method as parameters.
* etc.. 30 refactoring operations ..

If we had an IDE for Ruby with such features... wow.
I will do my best in order to create such refactoring tools for ruby.


> I would also interested in your opinion guys. 
> going to test AEditor now ....

Great.. tell me what you think :-)

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Simon Strandgaard