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From: R. A. M. Y. <raf...@gm...> - 2008-11-25 10:55:50
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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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From: Mystilleef <mys...@gm...> - 2008-11-25 19:07:35
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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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > scribes-discussion mailing list > scr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scribes-discussion > |
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From: Mir N. <mir...@gm...> - 2008-11-26 07:51:05
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First things first. Thank you for a great work on Scribes. My 2 bits I am a web developer and have to work with different languages. PHP, Python, CSS, JavaScript. All generally having different indent preferences. So I was thinking if it would be possible to specify indent/tab/space settings on file type basis. I think it would be a great feature. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Mystilleef <mys...@gm...> wrote: > 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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> scribes-discussion mailing list >> scr...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scribes-discussion >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > scribes-discussion mailing list > scr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scribes-discussion > -- Mir Nazim EMail/GTalk: mir...@sa... Cell: +91 9469071855 Blog: http://saunzal.org Company:http://www.ikraftsoft.com |
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From: Mystilleef <mys...@gm...> - 2008-11-26 19:47:00
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Sounds good to me. Can you open a bug report? Might be something I'll work on after the 0.4 release. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Mir Nazim <mir...@gm...> wrote: > First things first. Thank you for a great work on Scribes. > > My 2 bits > > I am a web developer and have to work with different languages. PHP, > Python, CSS, JavaScript. All generally having different indent > preferences. > > So I was thinking if it would be possible to specify indent/tab/space > settings on file type basis. I think it would be a great feature. > > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Mystilleef <mys...@gm...> wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >>> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >>> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >>> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> scribes-discussion mailing list >>> scr...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scribes-discussion >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> scribes-discussion mailing list >> scr...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scribes-discussion >> > > > > -- > Mir Nazim > EMail/GTalk: mir...@sa... > Cell: +91 9469071855 > Blog: http://saunzal.org > Company:http://www.ikraftsoft.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > scribes-discussion mailing list > scr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scribes-discussion > |
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