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Consider switching to Xi Editor from Scintilla

Open emoon opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

https://github.com/google/xi-editor seems to have good momentum and might be a good fit as

"Separation into front-end and back-end modules. The front-end is responsible for presenting the user interface and drawing a screen full of text. The back-end (also known as “core”) holds the file buffers and is responsible for all potentially expensive editing operations."

Mean that it should be possible to have a imgui/bgfx renderer for this.

Still I would say it's a bit too early as it lacks any highlighting and such.

emoon avatar Jun 28 '16 07:06 emoon

This seems like it could be used for the syntax highlighting:

https://github.com/trishume/syntect

gwihlidal avatar Jun 28 '16 11:06 gwihlidal

Yeah it was suggested here :) https://github.com/google/xi-editor/issues/23#issuecomment-224463856

emoon avatar Jun 28 '16 12:06 emoon

This may still be interesting even if with the switch to Qt

emoon avatar Dec 01 '16 10:12 emoon