From: David S. <on...@gm...> - 2012-01-07 15:59:04
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:23:50 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ra...@ra...> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:56:25 +0100 Andreas Volz <li...@br...> > said: > > > Am Thu, 5 Jan 2012 05:55:32 -0500 schrieb Michael Blumenkrantz: > > > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:01:52 +0100 > > > Andreas Volz <li...@br...> wrote: > > > > > > > Am Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:20:01 -0500 schrieb Michael Blumenkrantz: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 23:13:44 +0100 > > > > > Andreas Volz <li...@br...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > how do you prefer to report Editje bugs? > > > > > > > > > > > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/newticket > > > > > > > > > > > > Here is no component "Editje" available. I'm in fear my > > > > > > tickets may be ignored. > > > > > > > > > > > > So how to report them? > > > > > > > > > > > > regards > > > > > > Andreas > > > > > > > > > > > editje is unmaintained and dead afaik > > > > > > > > No, please not! Why? > > > > > > > > Yesterday on IRC I got some help in code and no info about this. > > > > Why do I try to report/fix bugs if editje is dead? :-( > > > > > > > > I've seen edje_editor dying, I don't like to see the next editor > > > > dying. > > > > > > > > And no, I won't maintain editje as it's written in Python. If > > > > it was written in C I would think about it. I would revoke > > > > edje_editor before taking over editje. > > > > > > > > regards > > > > Andreas > > > > > > > Because afaik editje was created on a paid contract. The contract > > > is over and nobody is paying to maintain/update it, thus nobody is > > > working on it. > > > > Ok, I just gave up with edje editors for now. :-( > > > > I'm really annoyed that only half is working and this only buggy. It > > was bad to always patch the source. I needed longer than doing in > > edc. So I returned to clean structured edc and writing all myself. > > I now use editje only for prototyping, saving once as edc and > > continue with an editor. > > > > Maybe an ideal solution would be an editor where you could write edc > > code and it underlines errors in the editor while typing. Then after > > saving it compiles in background and updates edje result instantly > > in a open window. Like as Eclipse does it with Java code. An expert > > level editor which really helps! > > > > Any comments about this idea? > > > > regards > > Andreas > > frankly i think that an "text editor centric" edje editor is probably > the best way to go - as u move the cursor around the editor hilights > in a preview the part your cursor is in (for example), as you > mention, recompile when u go idle and show in preview, hilight keys, > show errors immediately, have "tools" that "insert a part with a > pre-made configuration" into the text, etc. not sure what to do with > programs etc. but also clicking on keywords like: > > transition: LINEAR 2.5; > > when u click transition, LINEAR or 2.5 (or you press some key combo > when cursor is over it) it shows some gui popup with a list of > available transitions (and preview curves showing the effect they > have, and with optional extra params like bounce and spring have) as > well as a slider with the time value for quick and dirty setting in > the gui to a value. > > this kind of thing is relatively easy to do as you are mostly writing > special handlers for some specific key values (and the params they > get), and you can extend and expand the handlers over time. the hard > bit will be integrating into an editor somehow. how best to do that? > with vim we'd probably have to patch it. for emacs we can probably do > this with lisp extensions. :) A text editor recently hit SVN, perhaps this could be added to that? Then I wont have to start using emacs or vi. B-) -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. |