thelfer / tfel-editor

tfel-editor is meant to be a text editor merging the power of Emacs concepts with the amazing abilities of the Qt library.
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What's the use for this project? #1

Closed 461353349 closed 6 years ago

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:

This text editor is meant to have the following advantages:

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

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!