On Thursday 06 September 2007 15:16:22 Rob McMullen wrote: > > PIDA 0.5 embeds Emacs into a graphical IDE, so you get the best of both > > worlds. I am a Vim user myself, and won't give that up easily (it also > > embeds Vim). > > It looked to me that PIDA was very unix/GTK centric. I want an editor > that is cross platform, looking like a native app yet functioning the > same on all platforms. Not to be a wxPython zealot, but that's what I > get for free with wx and scintilla. > > Cross platform really is the key for me. Not just usability either, > but configuration as well. Ever tried getting XEmacs/*nix and > XEmacs/win32 to use the same fonts? Totally different processes to > get them to work, and my win32 fonts are still wonky. > > That's the problem with embedding a native editor as I see it -- > you're still left with the cross platform differences. You could > embed SciTE, I suppose, but then you're left with extending the editor > in C++. Embed Emacs, and you're forced to write elisp to support a > new major mode. If you're a Vim guy, maybe you're all set since > you're really just dealing with a terminal widget. However, Vim is > not for me. > > Rob
Oh, I completely agree, people want different editors on different platforms, and PIDA is very GTK/*nix centric. In fact, we are missing one really good cross-platform editing component written in Python that has an API that can be used from any language with any toolkit on any platform. In the general scheme of things I imagine PIDA as combiner of other Pyxides services of which an editor is one. I imagine there will me many such combiners. Ali
