[MonoDevelop] Why MonoDevelop doesn't use GtkTextView/GtkSourceView?

[Sébastien Wilmet]

Hello,

It seems that Mono.TextEditor is a reimplementation of GtkTextView and
GtkSourceView [1]. Are there good reasons for having written a new text
editor framework from scratch? Maybe the general code architecture and
API of GtkTextView was not suitable for MonoDevelop needs?

As a developer of GtkSourceView, I would be interested to know the
reasons. GtkTextView and GtkSourceView should be flexible enough for
every text editor and IDE.

Regards,
Sébastien

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView