Re: the source code editor---which one is better?

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06:15, P draigBrady com wrote:
> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:30, Tom Liu wrote:
> >
> > > Hi:
> > > I am looking for a source code editor. There are couple of them on the
> > > internet.
> > >    GtkEditor.
> > >    GtkSourceView.
> > > Anybody know these editors and give me some suggestion which one I
> > > should go with?
> >
> > GtkSourceView as it is being actively developed and maintained.  It is
> > the editing component used in GEdit.
>
> When I noticed GtkSourceView being started I wondered
> why scintilla wasn't used?

Because GtkSourceView fits in with the Gtk API.  It subclasses
GtkTextView and adds syntax highlighting.

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J5