Textie, gedit-vcs transferred to Jesse van den Kieboom
I’ve decided to stop work on the gedit-vcs plugins project, and go my own route. I was uncomfortable with some of the routes that I’d have had to take to implement those plugins, and I don’t think they were in line with my own goals. I’ve transferred ownership of the project to Jesse van den Kieboom (jessevdk) of gedit.
I’ve begun work on a minimal IDE that I call Textie. It’s written with pygtk and pygtksourceview. My base planned feature set includes:
- A multi-document interface (MDI) via tabs
- Project support via external project files
- All configuration options available on a per-project basis
- SVN integration
- Syntax highlighting themes
- A project file browser, file system browser, open file browser, and symbol browser
- Language independent code completion based on project’s configuration
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts on a per-project basis
- The ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to shell scripts to do things like build and run
My current status is a working window with menus, toolbar, and editor. When I have something that can actually edit a file and save it (CRUD,) I will start a Google Code Project for it.
Posted 23 December 2008, 20:02 by Vic Fryzel · Comment
gedit-svn changed to gedit-vcs
After numerous discussions on the gedit mailing list, and more private discussions with gedit developers, we’ve decided to pursue a set of plugins that share a common interface. These plugins are the gedit-vcs project.
Posted 28 November 2008, 22:25 by Vic Fryzel · Comment
gedit-svn
My first gedit plugin is gedit-svn. I’m working on this plugin initially because I found the gedit-project-manager plugin, which seems to be actively developed. In this case, I’m hoping to integrate the two projects in the future.
Posted 23 November 2008, 12:28 by Vic Fryzel · Comment
Possible set of gedit plugins
I’m in talks on the gedit mailing list about using gedit plugins to accomplish project and source code management integrations within gedit. After my reply to Matěj, I’m looking into it more and more and I think I might be able to manipulate anything from gedit from a plugin. If this is the case, then I think I’ve found a platform to extend for my perfect IDE. I’ll reply again to Matěj and ask.
Posted 23 November 2008, 04:06 by Vic Fryzel · Comment
More IDE woes
I came home today, went to fire up Eclipse, and voila: an alert box saying to read some log file. I cat the log file, and it’s full of random errors about the pydev module failing to load. I’m not sure how pydev failing to load causes Eclipse to not load, but it seems to be the case.
I’ve been looking more into writing an IDE. After looking around a bit, I found GtkSourceView. It’s perfect for syntax highlighting. Beyond this, I’d need SVN support, for which there is pysvn. I’d have to build the project management aspect.
I found out that gedit has some plugins for project management here. Unfortunately, there is not a subversion plugin. One of them is a dead project, but the other one, projectMarker seems to be alive. I’ll look into that a little bit more.
Maybe what I really need to do is just write/extend a project plugin for gedit, and write a subversion plugin for gedit…
Update: I thought I’d mention that the log file generated for that error I got in Eclipse (which is the only way to diagnose/resolve the error) is 2718 lines long, and cites a problem with almost every component of Eclipse.
Posted 21 November 2008, 18:20 by Vic Fryzel · Comment
