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hydrogen602 / betterTextEditor

A text editor for that has python & assembly synthax highlighting unlike nano and is easy to exit unlike vim
MIT License
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Project still active? #1

Open funnyflowerpot opened 4 years ago

funnyflowerpot commented 4 years ago

Hi @hydrogen602!

I was searching for a while for a simple curses-based editor in Python and found this project. I like the fempto editor! I was wondering, is this project still alive-and-paused or rather abandoned?

If still alive, what is the vision behind the three editor classes? For example, is TextRenderer only for the purpose of viewing, not editing? I tried using the two base classes, but was out of luck.

funnyflowerpot commented 4 years ago

Background: I am working on a hobby/passion project that will be a bit like the pre-Nethack MUDs (think Zork) and thought for certain purposes a text-editor would be nice. Just to see whether it would work I copied your code of fempto and adapted it a little (I see your using the MIT license). Now I am wondering, whether I should try to feed back a few changes to your repository, where it makes sense. In the end there will be a lot of modifications on my side on non-essential features, such as extended navigation, but removed file loading/saving, removed/disabled code-highlighting and possibly conflating the three editor classes into one for simplicity. (I don't want any possibility for users to interact with files.) Maybe I'll add word/line wrap, but right now I imagine that to be a pain to implement. :-)

hydrogen602 commented 4 years ago

It's paused because I worked on other projects. The idea of TextRenderer and TextEditor was that a text editor = text viewer + editing features, and so TextRenderer is for showing text and TextEditor is sub classed from it and has the editing features. If you want to add some features to it or fix issues and make a pull request, I'll review it.