Re: [ jEdit-devel ] CodeAid

[Kevin A. B. <bu...@re...>]

Andre Kaplan wrote:
> 
> Hi Slava,
> 
> >In a message Jason posted to this list a while ago, (<http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/797/2000/1/0/3192162/>), he
> >said that he will no longer be maintaing CodeAid. Does anybody else
> >want to take over it's maintainance?
> 
> I do. At least for rather simple things.
> 
> > It is a very useful and powerful
> >plugin and it would be a shame if it was left half-baked.
> 
> Yes, CodeAid works fine but the CDB file generation needs to be more
> user-friendly.
> To improve this, the simplest would be to use JIndex + EB messages (to
> be defined). Thoughts?

+1
 
> I'd like to maintain/enhance some other plugins such as JBrowse,
> PluginHolder, etc.

+1.  Just hop on it.  It is Open Source so everyone should feel free to
make a contribution.  This is what I did for JCompiler.
 
> As for JBrowse, the version I've hacked is holdable, has a basic sort
> option, an automatic parse option,
> communicates with JIndex.
> It also corrects the bugs that were submitted a while ago.
> Should I go for a 1.1 release?

+1!!!!

> As for PluginHolder, I'd like to be able to choose if holded plugins
> should be docked or not.

I am confused... how would you specify this?  Can you explain what you
mean.  You should be able to access the plugins via the pulldown menu
and they should detach.
 
> Now I'm working on Clipper and ASPMode which are broken since 2.4 pre1.
> Clipper is fixed and there should be a new release soon.
> ASPMode is harder to fix but work is on good way.
> 
> I hope to release some new plugins soon.
> JDiff Plugin based on JDiff 1.0 pre1. mike's work is great.
> RhinoShell: Plugin based on Mozilla's Javascript Engine.

That would be really sweet.   A good JDiff is really needed.

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