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
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