Summer of KDevelop Code: Don't miss the fun!

[Alexander Dymo]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:50, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> I am a bit sceptical about this one from a text editor point of view.  Just
> how would it be accomplished?  
> It would also majorly disturb any efforts to 
> provide advanced code highlighting, debugger tooltips, etc.

I don't know. Just wild guessing:
Editor could be opened to operate on a in-memory string or in-memory file
with mixed header/implementation. 
KDevelop would open the mixed file and two originals but show only one mixed.

If mixed file changes, changes are forwarded to originals.
Code highlighting would not break as mixed file would look like any other
header file.

Debugger interaction should be probably done through original files, but
displayed for the mixed one. I really don't know how to do that and how
many things it would break. Probably Vladimir can elaborate on this.

Probably even more stuff will be broken and will need to be fixed. 
But if this project succeed, the outcome would worth the effort IMHO.
The feature could make KDevelop famous ;)