Re: [zile-devel] Woot, we may soon be obsolete!

[Reuben Thomas]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stephan Titard wrote:

> I looked also at the code to see I could extend it myself
> some areas that interest me were
> - UTF8 (and I looked at what the joe people did)

That's on the wishlist, it's a biggie, obviously.

> - syntax colorization (for this joe has also something extendible ... I
> am not sure how big it is)

Zile used to have this, and I got rid of it as being superfluous. 
However, the code was dog-ugly, and something nicer (and not written by 
me!) would be fine, especially if it could be configured out.

> - have a true lisp: tinyscheme on sourceforge seems quite interesting
> and small

The current Lisp implementation in Zile is actually a hacked-down small 
lisp interpreter (lithp 0.6). One of my iron rules at the moment is 
"Zile is a strict subset of Emacs", so this (and indeed syntax 
colouring) would be hard to add without breaking it (or bloating it).

>  but I can have different versions: a small one and a bigger one

Yes, I think that's sufficient.

> are all these things the kind of stuff you are planning to put into zee
> (with maybe some kind of plugin arquitecture)?

No: the point of Zee is mostly to take things out.

> any advice? what I really like is something versatile enough so that I
> can hook it into anything, maintainable...

Zile is much cleaner than it was when I took it on; there's a lot of 
additional cleaning work that has gone into Zee that could be 
backported to Zile. I think it can be a stable and comprehensible 
code-base to hack on for a while. I'd be very happy if someone else who 
wanted to develop Zile took it over.

> finally is (and will) the main line of development for zile and zee 
> (be) mainly linux?

As long as I'm in charge and love Linux, yes. I don't see myself 
changing OSes any time soon, but it's not really a big issue as I really 
am programming to POSIX, not Linux.

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