On 12 November 2013 03:51, Steven Blatnick <steve8tr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of the things I've enjoyed about switching from gedit to geany is > that geany typically doesn't use nearly as much memory and loads large > files easily. Now, I don't know if that's related to Scintilla vs > GtkSourceView, but really long documents, particularly with long lines, > freeze gedit up. > > At first I was sceptical of using a Scintilla-based editor from my > GtkSourceView, but geany has grown on me. > > With any direction change, I would hope most of all that the basics I know > and love about geany remain untouched: > > 1. Relatively easy to read source code. > 2. Fast and light weight. Feature-rich without the bloat. > 3. Plugins can do virtually anything. (I found gedit plugins to be a > bit more difficult, especially since the editor was in a different language > than the python plugins, although that could be more my inexperience with > the languages at the time I started.) > 4. Consistent behavior across languages, like a good power-editor. > One concern about language specific code mentioned in this thread and other > threads is if the editor will still handle things consistently. > 5. Support for many languages. This is probably the main reason I > don't use something like Eclipse, because switching editors for the various > languages that I have to program in is annoying. > > Anyway, whatever you decide, please don't take such a change in direction > as to gnome things up for us. > > That's my 2 cents, if they are worth anything since most of my > contributions so far are still small. > Hi Steve, Thanks for that, it is definitely worth while re-iterating the basic tenets of "the Geany way" that make up a large part of the value it provides to its users. If any design decisions threaten these, then they need to provide a commensurate benefit or be rejected. Cheers Lex > Thanks, > > Steve > > > On 11/11/2013 08:45 AM, Pavel Roschin wrote: > > 5. Drop Scintilla and use GtkSourceView. I'll just enumerate the reasons > that come to mind, in no particular order: > > But does this mean that some Sci-features are going to pass away? E.g. > scintilla > supports multiple selections and, gap buffer, multiple gaps, inline styling > (e.g. spellcheck, mark words) that I never seen in gedit/mousepad. > > -- > Best regards, > Pavel Roschin aka RPG > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing > listDevel@lists.geany.orghttps://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel > >
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