On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:23:50 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:56:25 +0100 Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net>
> said:
> 
> > Am Thu, 5 Jan 2012 05:55:32 -0500 schrieb Michael Blumenkrantz:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:01:52 +0100
> > > Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Am Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:20:01 -0500 schrieb Michael Blumenkrantz:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 23:13:44 +0100
> > > > > Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > how do you prefer to report Editje bugs?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/newticket
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Here is no component "Editje" available. I'm in fear my
> > > > > > tickets may be ignored.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > So how to report them?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > regards
> > > > > >     Andreas
> > > > > > 
> > > > > editje is unmaintained and dead afaik
> > > > 
> > > > No, please not! Why?
> > > > 
> > > > Yesterday on IRC I got some help in code and no info about this.
> > > > Why do I try to report/fix bugs if editje is dead? :-(
> > > > 
> > > > I've seen edje_editor dying, I don't like to see the next editor
> > > > dying.
> > > > 
> > > > And no, I won't maintain editje as it's written in Python. If
> > > > it was written in C I would think about it. I would revoke
> > > > edje_editor before taking over editje.
> > > > 
> > > > regards
> > > >         Andreas
> > > > 
> > > Because afaik editje was created on a paid contract. The contract
> > > is over and nobody is paying to maintain/update it, thus nobody is
> > > working on it.
> > 
> > Ok, I just gave up with edje editors for now. :-(
> > 
> > I'm really annoyed that only half is working and this only buggy. It
> > was bad to always patch the source. I needed longer than doing in
> > edc. So I returned to clean structured edc and writing all myself.
> > I now use editje only for prototyping, saving once as edc and
> > continue with an editor.
> > 
> > Maybe an ideal solution would be an editor where you could write edc
> > code and it underlines errors in the editor while typing. Then after
> > saving it compiles in background and updates edje result instantly
> > in a open window. Like as Eclipse does it with Java code. An expert
> > level editor which really helps!
> > 
> > Any comments about this idea?
> > 
> > regards
> >     Andreas
> 
> frankly i think that an "text editor centric" edje editor is probably
> the best way to go - as u move the cursor around the editor hilights
> in a preview the part your cursor is in (for example), as you
> mention, recompile when u go idle and show in preview, hilight keys,
> show errors immediately, have "tools" that "insert a part with a
> pre-made configuration" into the text, etc. not sure what to do with
> programs etc. but also clicking on keywords like:
> 
> transition: LINEAR 2.5;
> 
> when u click transition, LINEAR or 2.5 (or you press some key combo
> when cursor is over it) it shows some gui popup with a list of
> available transitions (and preview curves showing the effect they
> have, and with optional extra params like bounce and spring have) as
> well as a slider with the time value for quick and dirty setting in
> the gui to a value.
> 
> this kind of thing is relatively easy to do as you are mostly writing
> special handlers for some specific key values (and the params they
> get), and you can extend and expand the handlers over time. the hard
> bit will be integrating into an editor somehow. how best to do that?
> with vim we'd probably have to patch it. for emacs we can probably do
> this with lisp extensions. :)

A text editor recently hit SVN, perhaps this could be added to that?

Then I wont have to start using emacs or vi.  B-)

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