Hi, On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:51:41PM +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > Some years ago I started writing a new IDE for Linux in Python. The > idea behind it was: Make it slim, fast and extensible with plugins. > Just like gedit is. In fact gedit is my favorite "IDE" for Linux, but > it's lacking some important features I needed. > > I tried to implement them as plugins but after a while I realized that > it was to complicated. Furthermore I would lose my lightweight text > editor and instead open up an IDE every time I would want to edit some > configuration file. > > But writing an IDE from scratch? Not an option if I wanted to be > feature complete. Rather I decided to create something like a fork of > gedit, but written in Python. The clue is that I want plugins to be > compatible, so that most of the work can be handled as plugins and > therefore will be available to gedit users, too. Moreover that avoids > rewritten some needed IDE features like code completion or a class > browser. > > I named this IDE Taluka and started about 3 years ago. Unfortunately I > never had enough time to finish. Anyway: What do you think of the > general idea and would someone even like to help out? > > Code so far: https://github.com/jhasse/taluka I'm the author of LaTeXila, an Integrated LaTeX Environment, inspired by Gedit too (but the implementation is far to be as complete as Gedit). I wanted to create a framework based on Gedit (libgedit), but with the profiles feature, the libgedit is less useful. Take a look at this e-mail: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gedit-list/2011-January/msg00057.html Regards, Sébastien
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