On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Martin Albrecht <m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > >> Sure. I think that what you want is still orthogonal to the TinyMCE >> effort, but having another edit widget in the tree "just" for >> highlighting ought to be well thought out and the burden of >> maintenance must be taken into account, i.e. if somehow TinyMCE could >> be extended to do Python and all the other languages the notebook >> supports syntax highlighting via some plugins that would be >> preferable. As far as I understand we don't use TinyMCE to edit the >> cells themselves yet, but that could be something we might do in the >> future. > > One concern I'd have about this is that this added convenience could slow down > the creation and work with the input cells. They're quite snappy now and I > would like to keep them that way (rather them being bloated). > > Martin
I also share this concern, having done a lot of the work to make the notebook snappy and not bloated. Last year, Tom Boothby did integrate the EditArea code editor into the notebook, and we tried it extensively, but it just plain "felt slow", so we didn't go forward with including it in Sage at the time. Tom likes to push the notebook quite hard, e.g., editing dozens of very large cells in a single worksheet, so he's pretty sensitive to the bloat versus speed issue. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
