editor part

[John Birch]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> I've taken a short look at the editor part and was quite surprised that
> it loads a nested KTextEditor. A potential problem I see here is that
> the editor part needs to have a deep knowledge about the editor itself
> (for the breakpoint/bookmark bar). First, it certainly needs the font
> size - not a problem I guess. But then it also assumes that the line
> number is linear in the y coordinate. This is not the case for
> folding editors. It isn't even the case for editors who wrap around
> lines longer than the window, e.g. emacs.

Yes - hmmm

> An alternative may be to implement the breakpoint bar directly in the
> editor. As kvim seems to be the only kwrite replacement in sight
> (from hearsay), the interesting question is whether it already
> supports something like this?

Don't forget kfte. And this is the problem - We could restrict the editor to 
only a select few, and add the code for the icon border to those. But that 
really doesn't seem right to me. Why should an editor have the baggage of the 
icon boarder and breakpoint code.

You're right though - there's some serious sh*t here. Don't tell me I'm going 
to have to think...

jbb