[MonoDevelop] Managed Line Editor

[Todd Berman]

Yet again, Lluis beat me to it, and said it better than I did :)

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 02:35 +0100, Lluis Sanchez wrote:

> Things we cannot do with the current editor that would be possible to
> implement with a managed editor:
> * Code folding (although I think it could be implement with the latest
> version of GtkSourceView.
> * Code underlining with different colors.
> * Correct detection of words boundaries (navigation with control+cursor
> and selection with double-click doesn't always work as you would expect
> for a source code editor).
> * Selection and manipulation of text boxes, so we can for example copy
> or delete columns of text.

Another thing that a different editor could be useful for (not
necessarily a new managed one, just one not based on GtkText*) is split
buffers. GtkText* implements its MVC pattern in a weird place, causing
split buffers to not act as expected. For example, the buffer holds the
selection, not the view, which is a bit unexpected.

--Todd