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.
At first I was sceptical of using a Scintilla-based editor from my GtkSourceView, but geany has grown on me.
With any direction change, I would hope most of all that the basics I know and love about geany remain untouched:
- Relatively easy to read source code.
- Fast and light weight. Feature-rich without the bloat.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
Anyway, whatever you decide, please don't take such a change in direction as to gnome things up for us.
That's my 2 cents, if they are worth anything since most of my contributions so far are still small.
Thanks,
Steve
On 11/11/2013 08:45 AM, Pavel Roschin wrote:
5. Drop Scintilla and use GtkSourceView. I'll just enumerate the reasons that come to mind, in no particular order: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. -- Best regards, Pavel Roschin aka RPG _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
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