[MonoDevelop] monodevelop-boo: What work lies ahead?

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Lluis Sanchez Gual <lluis at novell.com> wrote:
> El dt 10 de 02 de 2009 a les 11:58 -0500, en/na Michael Hutchinson va
> escriure:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Petit Eric <surfzoid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> Boo uses GtkSourceView in the Boo console, which other languages don't
>> >>> have. It would be good to update the code to support GtkSourceView 2.0,
>> >
>> > gtksourceview isn't replaced by the "native" MonodevelopEditor ?
>>
>> Mono.TextEditor doesn't have all the features that the Boo Console
>> needs to be able to fake a terminal. I'm not sure quite how much is
>> missing though.
>
> I think the most important missing feature is text wrapping, which I
> don't think it's trivial to implement.

I just had an idea... we could use TextView instead of SourceView.
We'd lose highlighting, but it'd work everywhere.

Maybe a configure switch could select between TextView and SourceView.

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Michael Hutchinson
http://mjhutchinson.com