Yet another GUI releated thought

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-May-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| 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?

I was thinking of Emacs and other existing editors, and not trying to
write something from scratch.

jwe