2014-09-15 14:50 GMT-03:00 Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com>:
Hi Estaban,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:
2014-09-14 15:53 GMT-03:00 Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com>:
Hi Phil,
It would be cool to know the reasons why people have to use other tools. Perhaps we can do something about it.
If it involves text edition or manipulation, I use external tools because of the lack of certain features in Pharo workspaces (or even syntax highlighting limits) or due to the comfort I find in using the same key bindings/shortcuts I use everywhere to edit a csv file, SQL script, chunk or whatever. That's one of the reasons. :)
Could we go into details here? I am genuinely interested in collected these use cases.
Sure.
As noted before, syntax highlighting is now supported in GToolkit via Rubric.
I haven't used Rubric. So I can't really talk about it. But text editing speed in Pharo is perceivable slower than, ej, Notepad++ or gVim. It won't affect the normal use, because most methods are small, but as the code gets larger it slows down (exponentially?).
What kind of keybindings are we talking about?
I'm referring to common Windows keybindings: Ctrl+arrow, Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+Shift+End, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H, Ctrl+A, etc. Some are supported by Pharo, others don't. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo