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

[chuchi <jbarbero quiter com>]

Thanks for your help. I will study how to do it in the best way and I
tell you if it's possible: You will have notices.

El jue, 22-06-2006 a las 11:02 +0200, Paolo Borelli escribió:
> 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
> 
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