VIP with gtk support

[nadim <nadim khemir net>]

Hi, guys.

We are now two in this project and I have a few contacts with module authors 
which work could be interresting to use in the IDE/Editor.

There has been quite a lot of talk about this in the perl XP thread.

PPI has PPI::Test, written in Wx! We can't let that happend :)

I'm almost ready with the core componant. Now is the time to influence the 
design of the View base class.

Kaare and I would appreciate some help or input.

Cheers, Nadim.

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 00:23, nadim wrote:
> Hi guys, I thought I'd tell you about a project I'd like to start. I'd like
> to get some help.
>
> I want to write an editor in perl, well I've written parts of it already.
> but the real work hasn't started yet.
>
> I must say that the sate of perl tools is very bad. The debugger sucks, few
> editors have good support for perl and even less can be programmed,
> seriously, with perl.
>
> stuff like:
>
> sub GetToolTipInformation
> {
> my ($current_word) = Smed::GetCurrentWord() ;
>
> if($current_word ne '')
>       {
>       my $word_list = Smed::GetLookupList("perl_functions", $current_word) ;
>       $word_list =~ s/\ smed_separator\ //g ;
>
>       if(length($word_list) != 0)
>               {
>               Smed::SetToolTipText($word_list) ;
>               Smed::SetToolTipTextColor( 0, 0, 0) ;
>               Smed::SetToolTipBackgroundColor( 255, 245, 238) ;
>               }
>       else
>               {
>               #display line and column in tooltip
>               my $line = Smed::GetModificationLine() ;
>               my $character = Smed::GetDisplayPosition($line,
> Smed::GetModificationPosition()) ;
>
>               # adjust start index as lines are number from 1
>               $line++ ;
>               $character++ ;
>
>               Smed::SetToolTipText("$line, $character") ;
>               Smed::SetToolTipTextColor( 150, 150, 150) ;
>               Smed::SetToolTipBackgroundColor( 235, 235, 235) ;
>               }
>       }
> }
>
> are cool because anyone can add this kind of functionality. I'd like it to
> be easy to participate in the project.
>
> I have my own editor but I want to make a version that can also run on
> linux.
>
> I have looked closer to vi (most hated editor in the west) lately and there
> a lot of things that work in vi like they do in my text editor.
>
> I need a new project to take away my mind from my build system and I
> believe this could be an interresting one. The editor is a perl module, a
> bit like ex, and the UI should be the choice of the user. It seems that we
> can't avoid a curses interface. But when it comes to a full UI, I'd like to
> see it written in gtk-perl. There's a lot of things to be decided for the
> application and I'd like to get some input.
>
> I'd be very happy If some feel like joining.
>
> Nadim.
>
> PS: hmm what about integrating sprog in the editor?
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