[Geany-devel] [ANN] Fork of Geany

[Lex Trotman]

2011/4/1 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:56:15 +1100, Lex wrote:
>
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I has become apparent that Geany has moved away from its roots as a
>>lightweight, low overhead editor for small computers.  It is therefore
>>proposed to fork Geany to return to its roots and pursue alternate
>>user communities.
>>
>>The intention of the fork will be to shrink Geany as small as possible
>>to target the neglected niche of wearable computers.  In support of
>>this Geany will be adapted to operate off head mounted accelerometer
>>inputs allowing user input by inclining of the head.  The lack of
>>screens will of course require voice output to be added as well.
>>
>>I do hope that many developers will join in this exciting and
>>innovative development of :
>>
>>Whiny Teany Weany Beany Leany Geany.
>
> I totally second this idea!
>
> Let's make a new, shiny, tiny little Geany without that many features,
> without highlighting, without tag parsing and all that useless stuff.
>

Or better still, maybe we run on this

http://www.zdnet.com.au/rim-debuts-screenless-blackberry-339312385.htm

won't need those dependencies on GTK or scintilla then :-)

Cheers
Lex


> Oh, wait, this already exists and is called Notepad.
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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