Re: [gnome-love] gnome-vim bonobo component

["Jason D. Hildebrand" <jason peaceworks ca>]

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 12:37, John Ericson wrote:
> I thought there would be a general interface for text editors in gnome?
> Isnt the GtkHTML interface for WYSIWYG web editing? Ofcourse I can see the
> possibilities to use vi for web editing too but it should really work as an
> general text-editor component IMHO.

I agree with you.  My primary interest in writing gnome-vim was to work
with current versions of Evo without requiring huge changes to it, and
since it currently only supports GtkHTML that's what I implemented.  It
would not be difficult for gnome-vim to implement multiple interfaces.

I just got an email from Ettore (evo developer) and he said that Evolution
should also support a non-HTML-specific (i.e. text) interface which
editors can more easily implement.

> I've heard that the new Anjuta is a program that is using bonobo components
> heavily. It would be really great to see gnome-vim working in that app.

I've never tried it, but I will check it out.
The "grand vision" as I see it would be to have a place in the gnome control
center where you can choose a favourite html-editor and a favourite text
editor.  Any interested apps can look up this information and use the 
corresponding components.

I noticed John Lenz' article on gnome-love:
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/2001-December/msg00033.html
He seems to have a similar project to mine.  I'd like to talk with him
and see if we can merge projects or otherwise work together to make "pluggable 
editors" a reality.

...Jason