I agree on scintilla being better. 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. 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. Thanks, Steve |
Hi, folks. 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: - 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. - 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. - 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. Thrawn ------------------------------ On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 12:54 PM AEDT Lex Trotman wrote: >Hi All, > >Just a note I am still summarising the thread, but "real life" is getting >in the way. Real soon now (hopefully). > >Cheers >Lex _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel |