Re: [Beaver-devel] TODO additions

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> > Yeah, ideally (and according to the HIG), the toolbar is customizable. 
>
> Hm, I really should get familiar with the HIG.

I'm pretty happy with it -- it's an interesting read if you are into 
useability.  I'm assuming you know where it is -- 
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ just in case.  I 
particularly like it because it means we can outsource the burden of 
making Beaver user-friendly by just adhering to this standard.


> > > Additional and extraordinary syntax hightlighting feature proposal:
> > > Highlight by syntax and context, e.g. for variable types not intrinsic.
> > > It has always been annoying to me that there is absolutely no editor
> > > that hightlight custom data types in C (think GtkWidget).
> > > I have made some studies with PerlRE on this subject and must conclude
> > > that it is possible to achieve this with some nice regular expressions.
> > > This feature should be optional, though.
> >
> > Sounds cool.  It's a feature I've often missed.
>
> How about your experience with regular expressions?

Not much, I'm afraid.


> > > Autotoolizing. I know Automake and Autoconf and could do this one
> > > if you don't have any problems with it - GetText will be yours to do
> > > in any case, though.
> >
> > Sure.  I don't care who does it, but we definitely need to autotoolize.  :)
>
> I'll do a working (though less-than-perfect) version in configure.ac
> format by tomorrow or friday. It depends on whether I get home late
> or not tomorrow.

Cool.


> Another thing: I'd like to have line numbering with a nice (probably
> adjustable) border on the left. I have a problem with text glueing
> at the most outer left of my screen.
> Do you have any ideas on line numbering? The border should be no problem
> of course.

Aren't there four windows around a GtkTextView 
(gtk_text_view_get_window)?  You could stick a GtkTextView inside one of 
them, have it be non-editable, and be full of lines with numbers.  I 
think that might scroll with the view.  Not sure.


BTW, I'm going to be taking a vacation from this Saturday to the next. 
You'll have CVS all to yourself.  (assuming you can access it)  ;)

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