Re: Synchronyzing MC and Cooledit

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hi, Walery!

> The cooledit sources in the MC distribution is VERY outdated
> (I can guess that the last syncronization was in 1997).

Last synchronization tookplace in July 1999, according to the history of
gtkedit/bookmark.c

> So, many useful features from modern cooledit are not available
> in MC now.
> For instance it is "bookmarks".

It's in the code.  But it's not in the MC menu and there are no hotkeys.
It looks like that it should be easy to fix without new synchronization,
just by porting the cooledit menu already in the MC source.

> Anyway, if cooledit and MC sources are not syncronizing
> now we can safely strip !MIDNIGHT sections from the editor
> sources. This code is NEVER used and it is inconvenient to
> keep this dead code which only confuses developers working
> with editor sources.

I agree.  Even if we plan to synchronize some code in the future, it will
be done very carefully, on the per-function basic.

> IMO this pieces of code should be cleaned along with
> GNOME pieces in the new versions of MC.

I'll do it.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin