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From: Slava P. <sl...@je...> - 2003-04-09 21:32:57
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Hi, On April 8, 2003 11:36 am, Philip Aston wrote: > 1. Is jEdit Syntax still under active development? There doesn't seem > to be an awful amount of activity. The last version of jEdit that had a fully pluggable text area was jEdit 2.3. jEdit-syntax currently contains jEdit 2.2 code. Is there any interest in me releasing the jEdit 2.3 code under a public domain license? I already got permission from all contributors some time ago, but never got around to doing it. The main improvement in the 2.3 text area was a line number gutter. > 2. Its a fork of a subset of jEdit; are there any plans to take future > merges from JEdit? One of the planned enhancements in jEdit 4.2 is an independent syntax package. The old syntax engine used in jEdit-syntax was independent, but the new code that reads token markers from XML definitions has always been tied into the rest of jEdit. Note that the jEdit 4.2 syntax package will remain GPL'd. Making the text area independent is a slightly harder task. The text area itself is pretty modular, however it depends on the jEdit document model, and the input handling code, both of which are very closely tied to pretty much every other part of the editor. Throughout the 4.x series I'm slowly working toward a modular text area. Once its done jEdit-syntax will be inline with jEdit and it will be a killer text control; folding, word wrap, auto indent, etc. and much faster than anything else out there. -- Slava Pestov |
