[Kommander-devel] KTextEditor in Kommander

[Eric Laffoon]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:49 pm, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Thursday 10 August 2006 10:13 am, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 August 2006 18:52, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> > > Awesome! When we have this working in the new branch
> >
> > Today? ;-) Well, now the editor you see is katepart there. It cannot be
> > configured yet and the shortcuts are not imported, but it's a start.
> >
> > Andras
>
> I've just built this and looked at it. It really is barebones, and even at
> that it's day and night! For the first time I can see where lines wrap and
> I have highlighted balancing of nested parenthesis. These were reasons I
> was copying and pasting with KWrite on complex text.
>
> As nice as this I'd like to see what we can do that is of nominal effort
> and a good return. Here are some ideas I have with the suggestion that
> Andras can do them or give us feedback.
>
> 1) highlight functions @function.method and @#comments
> 2) add line number option to the main menu
> 3) Either add tab width option or at least decrease the default tab value
> to reflect the smaller edit space
> 4) context menu to load function under cursor into Function Browser
> 5) bookmark ability, probably with context menus
>
> Okay and here is one more idea. I want to have a Kommander based snippet
> library. So if we could open a Kommander dialog and have it be able to
> insert text in the cursor, similar to Quanta but not as involved, that
> would be very cool.

One more idea... for use when scripting it would be very nice to be able to 
select highlighting for a widget. That way if you are using bash or Ruby or 
PHP you are set.
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Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module