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<p>I don't know if this is because of gtksourceview or not, but loading large files or files with long lines freezes up gedit2/pluma, which uses gtksourceview. I used to prefer gtksourceview, but I think I prefer scintilla more now.</p>
<p>I could have just lacked experience, but navigating the code to add background color or select regions didn't seem as easy with gtksourceview. Their iterators, marks, and other anchor/location-types seemed to be unintuitively mixed and would become stale data quickly without even the text changing.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Steve</p>
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<td valign="top"><BR>Hi, folks.<BR><BR>I've been out of the loop for a while, but have just caught up with this thread and the one about Vala. Just wanted to add $0.02:<BR><BR>- I'm not really a C programmer (Java background), so would welcome non-C opportunities for plugin writing. Although I actually do like Lua scripting.<BR>- Vala looks promising because it generates C code. This sounds a bit like eg CoffeeScript compiling to JavaScript. If it generates similar (or better?) machine code, and is easier for humans, sounds good. Given my background, I would certainly find it easier to contribute to Vala code than to C code. But I'm not expert in the dependency issues.<BR>- Scintilla may be ugly compared to GtkSourceView, but my experience of their respective editors (eg Notepad++) is that it provides more features - and worthwhile ones. Even code folding is a plugin in Gedit. And I love rectangular selection. So I
don't like the idea of swapping to GtkSourceView.<BR><BR>Thrawn<BR><BR>------------------------------<BR>On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 12:54 PM AEDT Lex Trotman wrote:<BR><BR>>Hi All,<BR>><BR>>Just a note I am still summarising the thread, but "real life" is getting<BR>>in the way. Real soon now (hopefully).<BR>><BR>>Cheers<BR>>Lex<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Devel mailing list<BR><a ymailto="mailto:Devel@lists.geany.org" href="javascript:return">Devel@lists.geany.org</a><BR><a href="https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel" target=_blank >https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel</a><BR></td>
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