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

[Andy Piper <andy piper freeuk com>]

On 2001.12.05 03:55 Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote:
> CC-ing Anjuta-devel, since this seems relevant.

Agreed.

> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:25, Janne Morén wrote:
> > On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 19:37, John Ericson wrote:
> > > 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.

Correct - the *new* Anjuta, Anjuta DevStudio, is heavly Bonoboised (merged with gIDE). The existing Anjuta is 
sticking with Scintilla.

> > Oh yes. I downloaded Anjuta, seeing if it had the potential to
> > eventually being used in our company as an IDE. Turns out that version
> > 0.1.7 already seems to do just about everything you'd want such an
> > environment to do (makes me wonder what 1.0 is aiming for. World peace?
> > Antigravity?). The one and only thing missing is getting vim embedded -
> > the others are happy with the editor - scintilla, I think - but my
> > fingers stray to vi bindings too often for it to be practical for me.

See above - and you've not tried 0.1.8? It's excellent, you should have a look :-)
The way things have fallen is that 0.1.x is effectively "1.x". That series will continue for a while (with 
myself as maintainer). After that, once Anjuta2 is stable, effort will switch permanently to that. World 
peace and antigravity will have to become Bonobo components....

> If it is just key bindings, I'm sure one can modify Scintilla to get
> whatever keybinding you want. However, Scintilla has lots of other
> functionality, for example dropdown autocompletion and calltips, which
> are non-trivial to implement in VIM (Try 0.1.8 to see what I mean).

Exactly why people should try 0.1.8 :-)
As maintainer, and knowing a bit about the roadmap for Anjuta2 which should allow for stuff like gtkHTML and 
gnome-VIM etc to be easily plugged in as editors (or whatever), I'd strongly oppose any kind of fundamental 
change to the 1.x series. I agree that vi keybindings would be nice, but that should probably go back into 
Scintilla and we'll work from there.

Andy

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