Mousepad

[Jari Rahkonen]

Mike Massonnet kirjoitti:
>> You're free to do as you will of course, but it seems a simple and light
>> gtk-based text editor is much harder to find nowadays than a good code
>> editor with syntax highlighting. Speed is not a good argument here, as
>> scite already starts as fast as mousepad for me, and geany isn't much
>> slower either. Don't know about the rest.
> 
> Then you must have a really good machine...  If you take an old
> hard-disk, you will see the difference even with a 1GHz CPU.  But of
> course once the app is started it lives in cached memory, so it will be
> faster the second time you start it.
> 

Yeah, hardware performance is obviously a factor. But as it stands,
scite starts instantly for me. Geany is a bit slower, taking maybe 3
seconds to load up the first time.

>> Is there something you find so wrong in the existing code editors that
>> you feel the need to virtually start from scratch on a new one, or is
>> this simply something you're interested in hacking on? If it's the
>> latter, I wish you good luck and hope you have fun with it, but please
>> make it a new project instead. Adding all those features might not make
>> the editor much slower, but it would definitely make it less simple.
> 
> Please, insert here ^^^ the missing bits about the features you find
> bloated in Nick's branch.  I personnaly like it like it is right now,
> and won't mind starting the app with one feature more if it makes
> another user happy or if it makes sense for Nick to add it.

No bloat in the branch right now, that was just me panicking about my
beloved Mousepad losing it's purpose, triggered by the mentions of
syntax highlighting. :) And as I said, of course Nick is free to do as
he pleases. It's his project now. I'm sure he'll do his best to keep it
simple and fast if and when he adds features he deems necessary.

Nobody's forcing me to update, anyway.

>> - Jari
> 
> mike
> PS: Something shocking probably, back to 2005, in one of Xfce's blog
> entry[1], _you_ were asking for GtkSourceView.  Lol :-)
> 
> [0] http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
> [1] http://blog.xfce.org/?p=129#comment-2554

That's back when I didn't use geany for coding. :) But you're right, I
guess I've changed my mind since then.


- Jari