Re: [Evolution] Request for additions/corrections in Evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I'm waiting for your "well written" patch since you seem to know so
much.

This is a Free Software project and I do NOT appreciate being constantly
insulted by the likes of you. 

Please LEAVE.

Jeff

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 18:58, Raider wrote:
> Hmm... maybe because Vim is well written an the bells and wistles are
> less important to the authoring team and the performance is important? 
> Or because the developing team is more interested with solving one
> problem instead of labeling problems as "unimportant" and closing the
> case?
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 01:19, David Hoover wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:54, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:30, Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
> > > > I find it great having color on things you edit, makes it easier to
> > > > read. I dont think I'd be wery happy if I e.g.edited some source
> > > > code in vim, removed a quote " around a string, and vim didnt fix
> > > > the color for the rest of the source when I put it back again..
> > > This is a completely separate issue, one is doing syntax highlighting
> > > and the other is trying to be smart on arbitrary text that someone else
> > > wrote.
> > Isn't syntax highlighting more or less by definition, "be[ing] smart on
> > arbitrary text that someone ... wrote"?
> >
> > Like when I use vim to edit my mailspool, and it's able to color it, and
> > make citations cyan, based solely on the text?
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong but you're saying these two cases are
> > "completely separate issue[s]":
> >         1. vim (a text editor) looks at some arbitrary text in its
> >            buffer (which was typed, or read from a file, or whatever)
> >            and it goes "Hey, I've been told to color this using my rules
> >            for coloring email, so if it starts with >, make it cyan"
> >         2. Evolution's mail composer (a text editor) has to look at some
> >            arbitrary text in its buffer (which was typed, or included
> >            when you hit reply, or whatever), and goes "Hey, I'm coloring
> >            this using my rules for coloring email (since that's all I
> >            ever do), so if it starts with >, make it cyan"
> >
> > How is it a completely separate issue? One's a text editor that has
> > zillions of different rules to be able to syntax highlight any of a
> > number of different text formats, and the other is a very specialized
> > text editor, which would only need one set of rules explaining how to
> > syntax highlight one type of text.
> >
> >
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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