World: r3wp

ah, richt text? :-)

Rich text is on the list to be provided soon.

yes? As proposed - TMD?

I can see that Gateway demo took time ...

maybe with concept like min-face, we could have derived face, which 
could use multiple text and font subobjects, not just one, like current 
face?

Yes, TMD.

Gatewa demo is really nice - always liked it ...

Actually, Gateway demo GUI took no time at all.

I wrote an authoring system and gave it to the artist.

http://shadwolf.free.fr/crimson.jpgis what I use to write rebol 
code and manage it ;)

i once tried such a source-thing. was cool, browsing with kind of 
anamonitor and jumping right to the source from there. but without 
native support needed ugly hacky markup. if native, one could jump 
from a face straight to its sourcecode.

it's very good we can configure hot links to run the script while 
you are working on it

I hope it doesn't print in black!

Carl, do you intend to release a roadmap on what is planned for the 
immediate future?

It would be good to experiment around with editor and see if it can 
deal with scripts as collections of functions, objects, data blocks, 
etc.

If you used Smalltalk editor, you know a bit more about what I mean.

a programmable editor?

Or, also... think about Mac resedit -- sort of.

More than just programmable.

no apsolutly not but a black back grounf makes the source code colored 
to be more shiny and it's less painfull than a white background ;)

I don't think it should be a priority :)

yes, too much of stuff which was promissed, so what actually goes 
first? I expect - SDK, other ports, IOS to 1.3, - what then? View 
1.4 (styles?), rebservices?, rebin?, rif?, language plug-ins? VM? 
:-)

Most people have their own favourite editors .. not going to change 
for anything.

I've seen so many editors over the years... but so few that really 
help me more than just typing of text.

thats what i mean. the trick is, don't try to be clever. load the 
library and just browse contexts.

Actually, I've given up on using just one editor.

I used to be totally emacs only.

and if you change something, load library new. then you have always 
in the browser what rebol really sees (what is in which context)

Carl Well mine I type texte manage files and run script and anamonitor 
using hot keys

only that you need somehow to go back to the source. was nice for 
error-handling too, btw :)

/me hopes Carl gets enough inspiration for next blog article here 
:-)

I think many editors aren't focusing on editing... they are more 
interested in project management or fancy highlighting/folding/whatever, 
rather than really good and responsive editing, proper indenting 
and block-editing.

I miss the ability to collapse sections of code in CE.

If an editor lags all the time, just by typing simple code, it almost 
makes me knock the monitor off the table

do I need more things ? If the more things means to be restricted 
by the IDE in my creativity like Visual Studio .NET I say no ;)

(smalltalks browser can collect stuff like "show me all callers of 
this", all methods of a name in whichever object etc. i gues Carl 
refered to that?)

shadwolf: please no, nothing like VS. :-)

Henrik: I agree regarding editing. Very few editors get it right.

But, I also do not want to hunt around in my code files to find the 
different sections.

Volker, in Smalltalk, I liked in part the fact that the editor "browser" 
kept things better organized.

Of course, there were other editors too... on Lisp machines, etc.

I like the editor the way it is now. I don't think anything should 
be put in it that would slow it down other than proper indenting.

For testing code snippets that are a little too big for the console, 
it's brilliant.


Alternatively, provide a bigger version of the editor through the 
desktop?

i used smalltalk only a little bit. what i like is 1) it is organized, 
yes. 2) i can easily find something. in a way everything is "hyperlinked" 
(you click on some name and it shows you the definitions.). modern 
big ides can that to, but somehow it works better in smalltalk.

A few of my personal favorite features though are type-ahead-find 
and "find all in one file", "search across files". I guess it wouldn't 
be hard to parse the file to list all functions, would it? Oh, and 
a line numbering thingy too :-) I don't think that would slow it 
down too much.

a least a list of context / fonction global vars for a script could 
be good ;)

i like that editor too. but when we want ide too, the gui-ide has 
to deal somehow with the text in the editor. and currently focus 
gets lost and selection and such.

Henrik: yes, Viewtop editor is fine for that. Small and simple. Perhaps 
a few more features, but not a lot.

I was actually referring to IDE.

well the better level of control of your script content is the text 
...  I fear using IDE will make us loose the optimisation and tiny 
size of rebol script ...

Back 4 or 5 years ago, the Dylan folks wanted to make their IDE work 
for REBOL. I heard it was good.