RE: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Task Manager Plugin

[Oliver R. <fru...@ru...>]

> The TaskList plugin now has some basic features working (and 
> no apparent execptions being thrown).  The source is in CVS 
> and I will upload a jar file to jEdit Community as beta 
> version 0.1.  It is compatible with jEdit 3.2.2.

John, thanks for doing this.
 
> There was a dialog class in the orginal jar archive but no 
> source file.  I did not include the class file in version 
> 0.1.  Is the source file available, and what was the intended 
> function of the dialog?

I don't have the source with me, but it's likely that was just a goof on
my part, if it doesn't look like it belongs.

> Returning to TaskList, there are some features that would be 
> easy to add: re-parsing a buffer on a save, for example.  
> Maybe there are also some other features that people can 
> think of.  I would love to hear suggestions and get 
> contributions. What I would be especially interested in are 
> reactions and suggestions about a common Project API.  Design 
> will be very important here, and a refined design that 
> reflects ideas from a number of people at the outset and that 
> will be comfortable for plugin developers to work with could 
> do a lot to take jEdit to the "next level".

I'd meant for it to do background parses, so that it could keep up with
the changing text (and know where to underline existing tasks) as the
text was changing, but didn't finish that part.

-Ollie

ps - I cc'd you in case my message didn't make it to the list (mostly
they don't -- some probably with my isp's mail server, I've been told).