On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:26:48 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira" alexandream@gmail.com wrote:
Just curious, what does Scintilla provides to Geany that GtkSourceView could not provide ? (Apart from the good documentation ,that is...)
If the only dependancy on C++ stuff is Scintilla... wouldn't it be possible to ditch Scintilla for GtkSourceView ?
Why shall we absolutely switch to GtkSourceView? According to Yura, I think the C++ is not a problem, today.
As I started writing Geany, I had a version of Geany with GtkSourceView and one with Scintilla. And Scintilla won because of its features. One year ago, GtkSourceView wasn't so good as it is now(I guess that it is now, if you are telling us it has the same features as Scintilla except folding).
But anyway, if GtkSourceView doesn't has any killer features without nobody can live anymore, I don't want to switch to it. The main reason is the work to do this. So many things have to be rewritten and modified because Scintilla is well integrated into Geany (obviously the editor component is quite important for an editor application ;-)).
Regards, Enrico