Re: [gedit-list] New Feature (split documents)

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Ludo wrote:
> On 6/21/06, chuchi <jbarbero quiter com> wrote:
>   
> >         I need your help. My fist intention is create a new proyect to do this
> > embeding the gedit control inside the new editor. �What do you think
> > about this? �Some idea? �I create a new proyect or add this feature to
> > gedit? �perhaps i may do a plugin for gedit?
> >     
>
>
> Adding it (if possible as a plugin) to gedit would be preferable.
> Though I'm kinda wondering if this would be a gedit feature or a
> gtksourceview feature. I'm not sure what part of gedit is gedit
> itself, and which part is gtksourceview. IMHO this feature could be
> very useful, if done well. I guess one of the Paolo's can help you out
> with this.
>
>   

Well such a feature is a bit at the limit of what gedit is supposed to 
be, though I admit that from time to time I would have liked split 
windows too, so if presented with a nice and clean patch and a polished 
user interface I would at least consider it...
However I think it would not be easy to do in gedit right now: in gedit 
the concept that each document has one and only one view is pretty 
deeply rooted. This is mostly due to the fact that despite what 
advertised the GtkTextBuffer/GtkTextView model/view split is subotimal 
and having multiple views for a single buffer would have other side 
effects (the views would not be indipendent enough). A different 
approach would be to use two buffer/view pairs but at that point you 
have to code a lot of logic to make the two buffers aware one of the other.


Feel free to prove me wrong with code :)


Ciao

   Paolo