On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Pollack wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Lukas Renggli <
renggli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Safara was an attempt to implement a replacement for the current text
> editor, where nothing was hardcoded but everything could be configured
> by the tool (highlighting, completing, shortcuts, ...). Unfortunately
> this project never made it into a useable state. Writing a text editor
> is difficult.
>
>
> I hadn't heard of Safara, but SVI (
http://map.squeak.org/package/ab5ae6be-b705-40a2-8d63-a992442086ec) is (in my opinion) a very successful attempt at modernizing the editor. �It comes with vim- and Emacs-like keybindings, which include shortcuts for selecting and navigating through blocks, paren groups, messages and the like--exactly what we're talking about here. �It doesn't run on Pharo or trunk Squeak, but it worked just fine in heavy use for me on Squeak ~3.6 through 3.9. �I don't have the time to make it run on Pharo right now, but I doubt someone with sufficient motivation would have that much of a problem getting it running comfortably. �If I recall correctly, the main effort was going to be updating the OmniBrowser integration.
>
> --Benjamin