Hi, > There has been talk about expanding Pippy to support a variety of > programming languages, perhaps as plugins; to add syntax > highlighting; and general interest in seeing Develop proceed.
Pippy's always had syntax highlighting, see: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Pippy.png The gtksourceview2 library we're using has support for syntax highlighting almost all programming languages, not just Python. If someone has another educationally-appropriate programming language in mind, I think it'd be short work to add support for it into Pippy. Gathering tutorial code for the new language would be harder work. > Syntax highlighting in Write has been brought up as well. C and > Javascript environments have been specifically highlighted, since C > is used for a fair bit of code that we ship; but enthusiasts of > Ruby and many other languages have considered providing an intro > dev environment as a standalone activity, one per language. And > HTML creation is possible in Write but without highlighting, and it > is not obvious how to put this to good use. I'd be happy to switch over to embedding a Write buffer into Pippy, once it has syntax highlighting. Another useful feature would be for Write to have unique background colors for collaborators, as Gobby does. I wonder if that would be a small enough task for someone to take on. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel