Fwd: Re: Kdevelop1.0 Beta1

[holle at almaden.ibm.com]

I disagree. I do *not* want to have kedit or kwrite and definitely not kdevelop
behave like vi ...
I have no problems using vi, in fact it is one of the most useful things for
sysadmins :-)

But for programming things I prefer different editors, like emacs or even
kdevelop.

But I think it would be a very (!!) nice idea to support different
**configureable** styles for keys. Like the KDE-Style, the vi-style and even the
Emacs-style. Maybe even something like this weird old DOS-style with these
Ctrl-K for what was it SaveFile or so ??? And for sure a free user configurable
style that can be mixed up totally.

BTW: Stefan have you seen xvile ? This is the very nice X11 version of vi. And
vim support X11 by now, too (I think). So maybe we just get a kvile or a kvim ?

- holger



Stefan Heidrich <sheidric at rz.uni-potsdam.de> on 03/08/99 04:54:58

Please respond to kdevelop at fara3.cs.uni-potsdam.de

To:   KDevelop-Mailingliste <kdevelop at fara3.cs.uni-potsdam.de>
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Subject:  Fwd: Re: Kdevelop1.0 Beta1







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Subject: Re: Kdevelop1.0 Beta1
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 03:44:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Carlo Wood <carlo at runaway.xs4all.nl>


| Whereas hard-core Unix developers state that Emacs and vi are the
| ultimate solution, KDE provides developers a complete application
...

Hi,

more and more applications for KDE use some sort of text editor,
with or without colors, these editors should all have the same
look&feel - which is why they are (or at least should be) all
derived from one class.

However, not everyone is equally happy with the key-bindings
that this class is using.  I think that it would be a great
benefit for KDE when there was some global configuration for
how a "text editor" should look&feel, after which all applications
would react like that, like the user wants.

As an example :/, I HATE the current way the text editors
of KDE work.  I really NEED them to work like vi does.

Now I am very sure that this is a simple sub project, compared
to what was already achieved.  Its a KDE-wide change however,
so I am looking for some backup - some friends that agree with
me.

Would you support me to make a "KDE editor class" that is
flexible enough to be used in almost any application that
needs people to edit text (including colors etc etc), but
that allows to globally set keybindings etc.?

A hard-core Unix developer,

--
 Carlo Wood  <carlo at runaway.xs4all.nl>