On 7/19/06, Alexandre Moreira alexandream@gmail.com wrote:
2006/7/19, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:33:39 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
By the way, although I'm not familiar with GTK programming, I think I'd read that some GTK-based editors (such as Anjuta and GEdit) use GtkSourceview (http://gtksourceview.sourceforge.net/). Does geany use Scintilla in place of that? If so, just curious, why?
As Luzi already mentioned, we already had this discussion on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:26:48. The main reason for Scintilla was: it had more features than GtkSourceView when i started writing Geany.
And, since I kinda like started that discussion that time, I would like to add that my sources were wrong. I've been trying and checking GtkSourceView the last week and it still lacks A LOT of features that Geany use. Scintilla is by far the best open option for us, I guess.
GtkSourceView support for some stuff we already use will probably be done after google summer of code only.
Thanks for the follow-up Alexandre. I hadn't realized that there was a SOC project dedicated to working on GtkSourceView (http://code.google.com/soc/gnome/about.html). It'll be interesting to see how it looks when the summer is over. :)
---John