[MonoDevelop] Managed Line Editor

[Scott Ellington]

I think it is a very good idea.  There is also nothing wrong with
dropping another dependency.

Scott

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 14:41 +0100, Matej Urbas wrote:
> Hi
> 
> for a long time now, I've been planning to somehow improve MD's source
> editing experience with various kinds of coding assistance techniques.
> Still, I have been only investigating - I have yet to do some coding...
> 
> I have looked into various IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans and VS.NET 2005, and
> the first thing I noticed about them is that they all have specially
> crafted editors - to perfectly integrate into the IDE and to suit all
> their needs.
> 
> Also, for a while, I've been looking into GtkSourceView's internals - in
> order to help adding new features we'd need at MonoDevelop... Soon it
> became clear that I'd have to be a dedicated GTK expert to even dare
> dream about adding any kind of new features (not to mention the effort
> needed to make new features available to Mono apps)... Anyways, I don't
> see myself working on GtkSourceView - ever...
> 
> However, I'm more and more fond of the idea to create an editor designed
> specifically for MonoDevelop (or any other Mono app).
> 
> Create a source editor with GTK# and Pango? Take a look at how
> SharpDevelop's, NetBeans' or Eclipse's (my favourite) editors manage
> things? Better integrate parsers with editors?
> 
> Lluis, is this a sane idea?
> 
> 
> Enjoy,
> ---
> Matej
> 
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