Yet another GUI releated thought

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:32 AM, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:
> On  8-May-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | IMO the terminal emulation is the easiest way to go, because you
> | don't have to re-implement readline capabilities. Everything is already
> | there. And you can focus on other things like file editing, debugging
> | capabilities or graphics backend integration (that's what I mean by
> | GUI).
>
> Likewise, there are already good editors available, so I think we
> should make Octave work with one or more of them instead of
> implementing a new editor.

I guess that's what John is doing by using the gtksourceview
component (which is a GTK source editing component). Or maybe
you had something else in mind?

Michael.