Re: [gedit-list] gtide - gedit to IDEs (and beyond)

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:17:31PM +0200, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote:
> Haven't read all the backlog here, but wouldn't we invest our time in a
> better way if we
> try to i.e share in a better way some parts of gedit by putting them in
> GtkSourceView,
> instead of making once again another library with all the overhead that it
> means.
>
> Some things that I can think about is snippets which is implemented in
> gedit and in builder.
> We could take builder's implementation as a starting point and add any
> missing feature
> from gedit's one.
>
> Another interesting thing is the indentation stuff which currently is also
> implemented in
> gedit-code-assistance and in builder.
>
> And I am pretty sure there are other things out there that we could move
> down the stack.

Yes, there are still several features that could be moved down to
GtkSourceView. But I'm more interested to make the MDI of gedit
re-usable.

For gCSVedit for example, I'm not interested by the snippets system and
smart indentation. I'm interested to be able to open several files in
different tabs, have a search and replace UI, have the equivalent of
GeditTab to show an infobar when there is a file loading or saving
error, etc.

--
Sébastien