Re: [scribes-discussion] Some ideas

[Mystilleef <mys...@gm...>]

Hello,

These are great ideas. Scratchpad and Scribes have a lot in common in
terms of delivering an uncluttered text editing experience. And I like
many of the unique direction the project is taking. That's something
I've always tried to do with Scribes.

Point 1 is a great idea that I'd like to implement.

Point 2 is complicated because the new search system in Scribes (in
the experimental branch not development branch) provides all kinds of
options to change the behavior of find as you type. So I don't think
scribes needs this.

Point 3 I think Scribes already does this or something similar.

Point 4 This has been on my todo list for a while, just haven't gotten
around to doing it.

Great ideas though.

Thanks



On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Rafael Augusto Maguiña Yrivarren
<raf...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just discovered an interesting text editor for gnome which could be
> called scribes' "competition" (slick interface, spatial/document
> centric, etc.) if weren't very much abandoned or vaporware (from what
> I can tell from just a glimpse at the homepage and the google project
> page). Its name is scratchpad
> (http://dborg.wordpress.com/scratchpad/), is written in the vala
> language, and has some ideas behind it which may be worth thinking
> about for scribes. Some quotes from the features:
>
> "* If you activate the Cut or Copy command without a selection, it will act on
> the entire line (same as the Block Cut/Copy commands). This makes it quick
> and easy to delete or re-locate lines.
>
> * The type-ahead search becomes case-sensitive as soon as you type a non
> lower-case letter.
>
> * In Go-to-line mode, you can use the up and down arrow keys to move up or
> down in steps of ten. Hold shift to move in steps of 100.
>
> * Word-wrap defaults to on for plain text files and off for everything else.
> Once you change the wrap mode, it will be permantly stored for the document."
>
> There are other features, but those are the ones that caught my
> attention. I haven't actually tested the app as there aren't any
> packages available and I'm too lazy to compile from source. I just
> stumbled on it while reading the vala homepage.
>
> To make it clear: I'm not "advocating" scratchpad or anything. I just
> saw this interesting features and wanted to share it with you for
> brainstorming.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rafael
>
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