Console type widget

[Lyndon Drake <lyndon stat auckland ac nz>]

Hi,

Does anybody know of a console/terminal widget?

R is currently a terminal app, which writes to stdin/out.  The textual interface is being given a GUI wrapper, and I am currently looking at using a GtkText widget.  However, input should only be possible at the prompt, and the only way I can see to enforce this restriction is to subclass GtkText or GtkEditable.  I've noticed that gtk IRC clients tend to have a GtkEntry at the bottom of the screen (and use a GtkText for the actual messages received), which is not appropriate for R.

Another thing we'd like to do is on-the-fly syntax highlighting, which would probably be easiest with the patch used by gIDE.  If I do have to write my own widget, how easy would it be to integrate syntax highlighting from gIDE?

Thanks,
Lyndon