[MonoDevelop] Scintilla over GtkSourceView

[Ben Maurer]

Yes we know about this and have made the choice to not go this path for
a few reasons:

      * Scintilla does not do rendering as nicely as GtkSourceView; no
        pango use, it looks horrible.
      * Code folding should really get into GtkSourceView. I have heard
        that adding support for it is in their plans.
      * Scintilla would be a dependency that is not in the GNOME
        platform.

As well, I am going to be making the buffer very plugable. Please feel
free to maintain your own Scintilla bindings, if you feel you need it.
We would probably be happy to host them on svn as an optional plugin.

-- Ben

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 11:04, Jesus Garcia wrote:
> I read the text buffer is going to be migrated to GtkSourceView for
> scalability and usability. I have been using Anjuta(based on
> scintilla) for a few months, it supports code folding and auto
> complete features. I would like to suggest using Scintilla over
> GtkSourceView, so we can gain the new functionality without writing to
> much code.
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> Links:
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> http://www.scintilla.org/
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> http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/
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> Thanks,
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> Jesus
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