<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 November 2013 03:51, Steven Blatnick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve8track@yahoo.com" target="_blank">steve8track@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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One of the things I've enjoyed about switching from gedit to geany
is that geany typically doesn't use nearly as much memory and loads
large files easily. Now, I don't know if that's related to
Scintilla vs GtkSourceView, but really long documents, particularly
with long lines, freeze gedit up.<br>
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At first I was sceptical of using a Scintilla-based editor from my
GtkSourceView, but geany has grown on me.<br>
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With any direction change, I would hope most of all that the basics
I know and love about geany remain untouched:<br>
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<li>Relatively easy to read source code.</li>
<li>Fast and light weight. Feature-rich without the bloat.</li>
<li>Plugins can do virtually anything. (I found gedit plugins to
be a bit more difficult, especially since the editor was in a
different language than the python plugins, although that could
be more my inexperience with the languages at the time I
started.)<br>
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<li>Consistent behavior across languages, like a good
power-editor. One concern about language specific code
mentioned in this thread and other threads is if the editor will
still handle things consistently.</li>
<li>Support for many languages. This is probably the main reason
I don't use something like Eclipse, because switching editors
for the various languages that I have to program in is annoying.</li>
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<p>Anyway, whatever you decide, please don't take such a change in
direction as to gnome things up for us.<br>
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<p>That's my 2 cents, if they are worth anything since most of my
contributions so far are still small.<br></p></div></blockquote><div>Hi Steve,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for that, it is definitely worth while re-iterating the basic tenets of "the Geany way" that make up a large part of the value it provides to its users. If any design decisions threaten these, then they need to provide a commensurate benefit or be rejected.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Lex</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p>
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Thanks,<br>
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Steve<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 11/11/2013 08:45 AM, Pavel Roschin
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<pre>5. Drop Scintilla and use GtkSourceView. I'll just enumerate the reasons
that come to mind, in no particular order:
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<pre>But does this mean that some Sci-features are going to pass away? E.g. scintilla
supports multiple selections and, gap buffer, multiple gaps, inline styling
(e.g. spellcheck, mark words) that I never seen in gedit/mousepad.
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Best regards,
Pavel Roschin aka RPG
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