RE: [FR-devel] Scintilla replacement for Freeride? (was Newbie to FreeRIDE).

[Curt Hibbs]

Euan Mee wrote:
> >
> > 3. I'm afraid that this'll be a waste of time because perhaps
> > in reality there are better ways to have a sane UI and
> > capabilities of emacs without this much work.
>
> I think the third of your two problems is the key one.  (Nobody
> expects the Spanish Inquisition! (c) MPFC :-) )
>
> It seems to me, the key (meta)features you're after for
> FreeRIDE are:
>
>  - fast, straightforward and easy extensibility
>  - flexible UI design
>  - access to the features from a text-based UI
>
> To my mind, this is a much more approachable problem than
> converting emacs from lisp to Ruby!  After all, it took Stallman
> decades to write emacs, and I hear tell he's quite a capable
> coder! :-)
>
> Perhaps other folk on the list could comment on the feasibility
> and attractiveness of these as (long-term?) design goals for
> FreeRIDE?

At this point I think we are pretty set on having a flexible plugin
architecture where the infrastructure mostly facilitates communications
between plugins. This core is so basic and flexible that we should,
theoretically, be able to do just about anything within that framework.

Curt