On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:24:24 -0500, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
Anyhow, a while ago I posted that I was waiting for Python support for Geany. I should probably take that back. Really, most of these commonly-used scripting languages are very similar except for syntax differences. There's variables, loops, functions, and so on. Python makes OO programming very easy, but I'm not sure how much OO features are really required for writing an average plug-in for a text editor.
Well, I think this is not the question. My intention to add a Python interface was to make it possible that users can write their plugins in Python, whatever and however these plugins will do.
Enrico, have you tried writing any plug-ins in Lua yet? I may try to
To be honest: no. For me it's easier(basically, exceptions may exist ;-)) to write some code in C/GTK than in Lua because for writing something in Lua I had to learn it before, C/GTK I know well enough to get some code working ;-).
A python interface probably won't provide many advantages via the Lua interface but I guess there are many people who prefer to write Python code because it's widely spread.
Regards, Enrico