I am talking about specific features for an editor I am thinking of making. I have tried gvim before and am not very happy while using it. On 3/26/06, John R. Culleton wrote:

On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:24, Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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If you were going to use an editor for context usage (potentially integrated into a Context suite), what features would you like from it?

Especially interested in what features in regular editors are quite useless to have around all the time. I tried the scite in the context mswindows distro, and didn't find it the most visually appealing and slightly cumbersome in configuration.

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OK, what the man said, plus: * not only different encodings, but also easy way of reencoding files; * fonts and colors are easily customizable (maybe different schemes for syntax highlighting); * line numbers in the margin; * large chunks of text can be commented out easily; * I would love the powerful regex search/replace of vim and emacs with a somehwat simpler (GUI-driven?) interface; * easy support for different utf planes; * customizable support for ConTeXt environments, commands, etc., ConTeXt can be called from within the editor with a simple shortcut. What I find useless: - I want an editor, not a pseudo operating system, so I don't need a shell within the editor; - I don't use spellchecking (too error-prone). Thomas (who still can't make up his mind whether he likes emacs + auctex or gvim better) On Mar 27, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Hi Jeffrey,

Jeffrey Drake wrote:

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If you were going to use an editor for context usage (potentially integrated into a Context suite), what features would you like from it?

* Good spellchecking, including private and special-purpose dicts. * A re-wrap paragraph implementation that leaves lines that do not start with alphanumerics alone * support for different input encodings, notably utf-8 and iso-latinX * CRLF/LF/CR conversions * regular expression search (&replace) * configurable syntax highlighting * adjustable font size * support for large (log) files (>100MB) * rectangle selection * difference checking

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Especially interested in what features in regular editors are quite useless to have around all the time. I tried the scite in the context mswindows distro, and didn't find it the most visually appealing and slightly cumbersome in configuration.

I use emacs almost all the time, with SciTE slowly gaining ground. SciTE is rather ok, but definately too minimalistic for my taste.

These days I can do without gnus (nntp), vm (mail) and auctex, but I use dired (file management), vc (revision control), gnuserv (client|server interface), other-window|other-frame (extra windows/viewports) and the calendar|diary fulltime.

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Le 27 mars 06 à 18:32, Jeffrey Drake a écrit :

Thank you for both your replies. The thing I am looking at right now is using scintilla for the basis of a windows editor (windows api) and scripted with TCL.

The interface I am envisioning is one of an old dos editor I used to use (called Programmer's Editor). It attached all functions to the function keys including menu navigation. But otherwise bindings to keys could easily be made. My thoughts are to implement most functionality in TCL, including configuration.

Very nice, as an editer shouhd be scripting! I think all the editor could be enterely be written in tcl (easy to install, portability, ...) You can see a very old editeur that I'm using every day which could be enterely rewritten with the modern feature of tcl. http://www.ensta.fr/~diam/stead/distrib/snapshots/ -- Maurice

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* support for large (log) files (>100MB) to big for stead ! I only play with 10MB with stead

hmm, on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:24:36AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that

* Good spellchecking, including private and special-purpose dicts. * A re-wrap paragraph implementation that leaves lines that do not start with alphanumerics alone * support for different input encodings, notably utf-8 and iso-latinX * CRLF/LF/CR conversions * regular expression search (&replace) * configurable syntax highlighting * adjustable font size * support for large (log) files (>100MB) * rectangle selection * difference checking

before this degenerates into a bloody emacs vs vim flame war :) vim can do all this and more. just as emacs. i am a long time (what's it now, 9 or 10yrs) very happy vim user so i can comment on vim. there is quite a number of extensions for tex/latex for vim on vim.org ranging from silly macros to complete suits with integrated latex help using make for stepping thru all the errors generated by the engines. and one can always write one's own macros if nothing is suitable :) people on the vim mailing list are more than friendly and literally starved for challenges :) having said that i am a new context user and i don't know if there's something specifically for context. -f -- to have a friend you must first be one.