Mousepad! Finally!
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Okay. So, I finally just crawled through my email till I found the right URL to do a checkout from the Xfce repository. I felt very very stupid. Having done so, I pulled a fresh checkout of Mousepad (since the one I had was corrupted), and made a branch for 0.3. Since I was without internet for so long, I was working on Mousepad a few minutes a day in a local repo. I commited those files to the new branch with surprisingly little difficulty. It’s amazing how easy that was, once I remembered to not be a douche. You can pull it from the anonymouse repository this way svn co http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/xfce/mousepad/branches/mousepad-0.3.x mousepad And you can build it with a simple ‘make’ Currently, it does very little that’s interesting, just a window with a GtkTextView in it. The Makefile is even handwritten. The goals of this rewrite are:
We’ll see how much of this I manage to acheive. However, so far, all looks good. If you see a bug in Mousepad, please let me know. It is highly likely that there are memory management bugs inside. It’s also likely that I do things in ways which are not cross platform, or reinvent the wheel. As an anecdote, the reason to fork leafpad was I needed printing support. Since I could read C poorly, and write it hardly at all, a good chunk of the printing code was copy and paste from the inside of the “Save” routine. Turns out the old save routine reimplemented a GtkTextView method, and poorly, so the printing code did the same. Had I realized I didn’t need to fight with it to add printing support, I might not have bothered with the fork, really. |
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Have you thought about using something like gtksourceview for the editor instead of a GtkTextView? Might make things like line numbers and syntax highlighting (if desired) much easier to implement. This would of course be an added dependency…
Comment by Jari Rahkonen — 1 Sep 2005 @ 05:02:27 UTC