Re: Project idea: IDE

[Phil Dawes <philipd parallax co uk>]

David M. Cook wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:50:07AM -0700, Samuel Ziegler wrote:
> 
> > I just wanted to put a feeler out to see what people felt about
> > a GNOME based IDE.
> 
> I think it's a good idea as long as it allows the user to use his editor of
> choice.  Most programmers are probably already very attached to their
> editor.
> 

It might even be possible to 'dock' the editor into the integrated
environment (if the user so wishes.) Owen Taylor wrote some preliminary
plug-socket code a while ago which provides this funcitionality
(stealing an X window and embedding it in a gtk app).

Cheers,

Phil.
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