Re: [rox-users] Edit 1.9.1

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:47:09PM +0100, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> Thomas Leonard spoo'd forth:
> > I've put up a new developer release of Edit:
> > 
> > - Make wheel mouse scrolling work (requested by Albert Wagner, with help
> >  from Stuart Langridge).
> 
> Blimey, don't even remember doing that :)
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of using Edit as my main editor, and
> giving it Python scripting capabilities (which would mean that you could
> do all sorts of nice things). However, I'd want a few things like syntax
> highlighting and so on. Is Edit generally perceived as a dead simple
> little editor which shouldn't be weighed down with complex stuff, or
> would extra hacks like this be welcome?

Very welcome. It's only so basic because I use Vim instead ;-)
And it does have some python abilities already. Eg:

	- Open the Process minibuffer
	- Select some lines
	- Enter 'line.upper()', and all lines will convert to upper-case

With the latest version weighing in at about 20K, I think we can bloat it
a fair bit before people complain (as long as the interface for normal
tasks doesn't become more complicated).

There are some selection-related bugs to fix, though (eg, losing the
selection when the minibuffer gets the focus; it should just grey out like
in the filer).

Anyone is welcome to send patches... it really needs a maintainer.


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