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



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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