* Jessta <jes...@gmail.com> [2009-09-24 02:11]: > On 24/09/2009, QUINTIN Guillaume <coincoin1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does YALSE have to support > > > > => a plugin system ? extensions ? scripting language (LUA ?) ? (so one > > can embed a terminal within YALSE) > > No, it's a text editor. It edits text.
+1 > > => syntax highlighting ? > Sure, makes sense. But should be external from the editor in some way. +1 > > => tabs ? many buffers ? > nope, want multiple tabs then open multiple instances +0.5 no tabs but multiple buffers in 1 instance, so you can exchange/compare/etc buffers > > => only basic features : cut, copy, paste, search, replace, inserting > > other text files ? > > => block selection ? > > => an (optional ?) GUI ? > > => ASCII only ? or UTF-8? and all? or many? character encodings ? > > > => several modes like vi ? or like EMACS ? or an hybrid ? or like > > another editor ? vile ? nano ? (maybe the troll-able part) > > I've always hated mode editors, I don't use vi because I end up > constantly typing in command mode and getting myself in to trouble. You'll never come to consensus on this. My experience is that the emacs/vi/acme/whatever factorisation of the people is not in any way equivalent to any other preference factorisation (e.g. console vs GUI, suckmore vs suckless, jazz/pop/rock, or whatever). There must be a way to customize this. > > => ncurses ? > > => strictly nothing ? > > => a limited number of LOC ? > > => others libs ? > Ncurses is pretty sucky, so I vote it not to be a console application. X sucks even more .... I think, creating documents should be separate from viewing documents. My vote goes for console. -- cheers stanio_
