What's the use for this project?

461353349 commented 6 years ago

Can you give a detailed description?

thelfer commented 6 years ago

Dear 461353349,

Thank your for asking. I like the idea that the first issue associated with qemacs is related to its purpose. I think that I will never close this issue.

The primary idea behind this project is to have a GUI editor which can leverage the full power of the tools that I have developped, for example MFront (see http://tfel.sourceforge.net and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898122115003132), MTest, Licos (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029549315003842) and bring this power to standard engineers.

Those tools are mostly based in text files, so I decided to create a text editor:

which is inspired by GNU Emacs main concepts (such as buffers, major modes, etc..). For me, GNU Emacs is definitively the best text editor.
that would make full use of the Qt library (hence the name, qemacs=Qt+emacs)

This text editor is meant to have the following advantages:

Use C++ as the main language (mostly by personal taste). I am definitively not a LISP programmer and found easier to create my own text editor than learning a new language (more precisely, I found it more fun and usefull to learn Qt than LISP). May be I shall also one day allow user extensions (mostly major modes) in python.
Portability (Linux is the primary target, but Windows/FreeBSD/Mac Os are also considered as first class targets).
The ability to use Windows-type short-cuts for users not at ease with GNU Emacs ones and have all the power of the editor accessible from the GUI.
The ability to integrate this editor into external software. More precisely, the projet is decomposed in a shared library caleed TFELQEmacs and an executable qemacs. The library provides the main widgets (for example the QEmacsWidget) that can be reused out of the box.
Develop some ideas of my own.

I also created major modes for the tools that I use daily:

Cast3M http://www-cast3m.cea.fr/.
Mardown (with pandoc http://pandoc.org/).
TPlot https://github.com/thelfer/tfel-plot.

The project is still in heavy development. Today (28/02/2018), it is good enough for my daily tasks and can be considered beta quality though no release is planned before months (even in beta). I use it for developping all my C++ projects, including TFEL/MFront and qemacs itself, of course.

Following this issue, I started a website: https://thelfer.github.io/qemacs/. You will find a few examples of what can be done right now.

With kind regards,

Thomas Helfer

461353349 commented 6 years ago

Fine!Good Idea!

thelfer / tfel-editor

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