Re: Fwd: Cocoa IDE v1 project

On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Glen Foy wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>>> The only way we can do this is if users like you tell us
>>> specifically what should be done to make it as good as MCL
>>
>> Porting Fred would be a good start.
>
> Better, a CL editor extending a general purpose base editor
> implemented in CLOS.

Porting Fred itself might be a good move, as it would open for  
porting of the many MCL contributions that works on top of Fred.

> That way, application developers can use the
> base to build other editors than for LISP. I've used Fred
> functionality as a foundation to build other editors used in my
> applications, specifically for text editing and XML editing. Doing
> this with Fred was possible but kind of a drag, because you'd have to
> disable LISP functionality rather than just extend base editor
> classes. I know, this goes beyond building an IDE to provide reusable
> functionality for applications, so it might be beyond the scope of
> the project, but may still be good practice.


Fred would benefit from providing the LISP specific functionality as  
an extension of a plain base text editor. Text editing can be  
separated into superclasses on the current fred classes.

-- Terje Norderhaug
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