Re: GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)

[Søren Hauberg]

tir, 25 11 2008 kl. 14:11 -0500, skrev John Swensen:
> 4) Syntax-highlighting editor (50% : there are still some bugs and  
> debugging isn't incorporated yet.  I would also like better emacs  
> keybindings, search capability, code completion, blah, blah blah, but  
> that is a ways off)

Are you implementing your own editor or are you embedding some other
editor? How much communication has to happen between an editor and
Octave? I can think of the following two things that should be possible

1) You should be able to set debug break points, and step through the
code from the editor.

2) You should be able to send part of (or the entire) file you working
on to Octave.

Can't stuff like this be implemented by having some inter-process
communication in Octave (like D-Bus). You would have to extend an editor
to talk to Octave through this inter-process channel (most editors
support plugins).

Anyway, I haven't looked at your work, so I'm asking out of ignorance.

Søren