On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > I'm writing a simple UI abstraction library, sort of like swk meets > draw.c, in that it's completely platform-agnostic (so we can port it > to other things than Xlib), but doesn't use widgets, you just draw > things. This has the benefit of encapsulating all the complicated > stuff you need to with Xlib into a single place, which means the > editor proper can remain nice and clean. This, as well as the UTF-8 > library, might be useful in other projects as well. I'll try to keep > them independent.
I'm very interested and curious to see what direction this editor takes. Glad you're writing a generic UI abstraction; tying things to X is a nasty thing to do. I haven't used it, so don't know it's level of suckiness, but might cairo work? However, I spend quite a lot of time in editors logged in to remote servers. I don't want X on them. So, how should an editor handle these things. Obviously SSH is great for the terminal, and I love vim in it. But if we're thinking about breaking from the terminal, how would remote editing work? Some sort of ssh piping from / to the file on the server? I haven't thought this through, but it's certainly a usecase which would be nice to cover. Nick
