Hi, pyrphoros . Share, please, your plans. Last year I began work with a original nedit. By the end of the year I had something that somehow could display the utf8 text. The text was drawn by fonts on server side (xfontset, XmbDrawString). But I had to postpone work on a nedit temporarily. Recently I began to think to return to work. I considered the idea of implementation of the font mechanism in which it would be possible to select type of an output (xfontset/xft). And yesterday I accidentally found it the project znedit on a SF. I am a little sorry that I last year actually spent time for nothing. On the other hand it is good that issues with utf8 text processing are generally resolved. Now it will not be difficult to implement the mechanism of an output of fonts with choice xfonset/xft.
But share current plans. Over what does work go now? When I worked with an original nedit, I assumed that it will be in the future necessary to implement printing according to present standards (CUPS, Postscript). I can begin to think at least in this direction.
Best regards!
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Supporting server-side fonts again would be possible. I was not sure if people really want it, but I wouldn't have any problems with adding this feature.
I don't know that much about printing and havn't thought about the current xnedit printing capabilities yet. The question is also, do you want just plain text printing, or is printing with syntax highlighting required.
What I plan to do next:
Implement the language server protocol to have code completion, jump to definition and things like that for many languages
Integration of some external tools, for example I want to integrate a webdav client and curl for directly accessing files on a server. Also directly integrating xterm is an idea. The nice thing about external tools is, that it can be completely optional and it doesn't make xnedit bigger.
Some new UI elements, like a sidebar with a file tree view
Support for Markdown
And in general UI improvements
Any feature request would be welcome. I'm also open for any help.
Regards
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Hi.
Printing in itself in an text mode suits me by and large. Even archaic printing using lpr can be used further. But there are not enough different opportunities. Choice of the active printer. Choice of the mode of printing. CUPS is for this purpose necessary. Choice of orientation of pages. Choice of printing of separate pages. And postscript is for this purpose necessary in printing. Ideally there is a wish to select font size.
I thought that it is possible to develop separate library for work with a CUPS. It could be used not only in Xnedit. But postscript printing already from Xnedit cannot be separated.
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Hi, pyrphoros . Share, please, your plans. Last year I began work with a original nedit. By the end of the year I had something that somehow could display the utf8 text. The text was drawn by fonts on server side (xfontset, XmbDrawString). But I had to postpone work on a nedit temporarily. Recently I began to think to return to work. I considered the idea of implementation of the font mechanism in which it would be possible to select type of an output (xfontset/xft). And yesterday I accidentally found it the project znedit on a SF. I am a little sorry that I last year actually spent time for nothing. On the other hand it is good that issues with utf8 text processing are generally resolved. Now it will not be difficult to implement the mechanism of an output of fonts with choice xfonset/xft.
But share current plans. Over what does work go now? When I worked with an original nedit, I assumed that it will be in the future necessary to implement printing according to present standards (CUPS, Postscript). I can begin to think at least in this direction.
Best regards!
Hi,
Supporting server-side fonts again would be possible. I was not sure if people really want it, but I wouldn't have any problems with adding this feature.
I don't know that much about printing and havn't thought about the current xnedit printing capabilities yet. The question is also, do you want just plain text printing, or is printing with syntax highlighting required.
What I plan to do next:
Implement the language server protocol to have code completion, jump to definition and things like that for many languages
Integration of some external tools, for example I want to integrate a webdav client and curl for directly accessing files on a server. Also directly integrating xterm is an idea. The nice thing about external tools is, that it can be completely optional and it doesn't make xnedit bigger.
Some new UI elements, like a sidebar with a file tree view
Support for Markdown
And in general UI improvements
Any feature request would be welcome. I'm also open for any help.
Regards
Hi.
Printing in itself in an text mode suits me by and large. Even archaic printing using lpr can be used further. But there are not enough different opportunities. Choice of the active printer. Choice of the mode of printing. CUPS is for this purpose necessary. Choice of orientation of pages. Choice of printing of separate pages. And postscript is for this purpose necessary in printing. Ideally there is a wish to select font size.
I thought that it is possible to develop separate library for work with a CUPS. It could be used not only in Xnedit. But postscript printing already from Xnedit cannot be separated.