Re: simple text editing

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:34 -0800, email micahcarrick com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm very new to GTK and Linux programming in general-- I come from a Win32
> background.  I am very fond of the free software movement and for that
> reason, among others, have chosen gnome to use as my environment and have
> chosen to learn GTK+/Gnome programming.
> 
> I do a bit of programming for an embedded 8-bit programmer known as a PIC.
>  It has a very small instruction set and is compiled using a program known
> as gpasm.  I wanted to create a small text editor with syntax highlighting
> for it's asm syntax and have the assemble callable from within the editor
> and show the output in the output window-- basically a lightweight and
> minimal IDE for a PIC.
> 
> My question is, would this type of thing be doable via plugins for GEDIT
> and if so, can someone point me in the right direction?  I'd rather not
> reinvent the wheel.  GEDIT is perfect if I can find a way to add my syntax
> highlighting and create a dialog for calling the assembler.
> 
> If GEDIT is not the way to go, does anybody know of a good way to approach
> this project.  I realize I have a lot of learning to do.  I have two books
> on the subject of GTK and/or Gnome developement and have been tinkering
> within the Anjuta IDE-- but am ultimately a "newbie". Any advise would be
> much appreciated.

I think that Gedit is the solution here.  You need to do two things:

1)  Gedit uses the GtkSourceView widget to do the actual display and
editing.  A bit of googling should show you how to define a new
highlighting mode.  IIRC it just involves creating a simple text file to
define the language.

2) Gedit has a plugin capability.  I have never used this before, but I
don't imagine it is that tricky.  You should download the source (and
the source for the plugins) and look at the provided plugins.

Keith.