[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-12-15 11:01 PM, Steven Blatnick wrote:
> I agree on scintilla being better.
>
> I don't know if this is because of gtksourceview or not, but loading large files or files with long lines freezes up gedit2/pluma, which uses gtksourceview.  I used to prefer gtksourceview, but I think I prefer scintilla more now.
>

My experience is exactly the opposite (not with Gedit though). GSV works 
incrementally while pumping the GUI loop, Scintilla completely blocks it.

> I could have just lacked experience, but navigating the code to add background color or select regions didn't seem as easy with gtksourceview.  Their iterators, marks, and other anchor/location-types seemed to be unintuitively mixed and would become stale data quickly without even the text changing.
>

My experience is exactly opposite. GSV feels natural in GTK+ since most 
of its API is directly inherited from the existing GtkTextView widget 
and the rest of its API is very idiomatic. Scintilla's GTK+ backend, 
without going into a huge rant, has quite possibly the worst, most 
foreign API to ever be unleashed on the world.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush