re: textmite
Q : what is currently the best Unicode text "notes collator"/editor/formatter/previewer/printer/versioning-compat app written in a Smalltalk dialect ? Any one component of the above ? RTF text editing/formatting widget?
Sketch/draw/coloring app ? Check.
complex telco routing app ? Check.
multi-dim data visualization app ? Check.
real-time high-speed robotic arm/articulated-joint controller app ? Check.
Can anything be learned from the successes/issues of the Sciter editor/component project ?
( was just remembering when the Norton Programmer Editor came WITH the assembler code )
Is there an open source Objective-C variant of a decent Mac editor ?
( as TextMate is SOooo far from being cross-platform, right ? )
It is not enough for an editor to "consume" TextMate templates, is it ? ( an analogy that likely would not be irritating to others escapes me at the moment ... )
Are constraints behavior what makes good editors so difficult to maintain ? ( assuming elegant/extensible constraints modelling and resolution IS the app challenge for text formatting for WYSIWYG approvals )
I am using a graphical programming language that has 2 approaches to constraints for text layout : one you get to tinker about in an API, one you get to request layout for text/font/font_attribs and you accept the results ( the Alan Knight O-O no-internals-SVP version ? )
A pythonic quasi-logic language with minimalist constraints for Unicode text is under development in UK ; I am alpha testing one such non-graphical prgrm'g lang for Unicode text-only from USA, but it is NOT cross platform oddly enough; Logtalk + swi-prolog also has constraints handling ; typed-Prolog AKA Mercury gen's C or Erlang ; Oz has gone quiet since 1.4 and Lively Kernel ? I have lost track of Croquet. User-friendly Scheme is now called Racket, btw. And "Claire", the lang ? Alice ?
[ by way of explanation : this Monday is a bank-holiday here, but the nearest beaches have ice piled on them and its some other holiday in USA ; now for morning java ( as in coffee ) ] Isn't "brackets" some editor project ?