Re: Successfully merged projects

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Apr-2011, John Swensen wrote:

| Were you indicating that you don't think an Octave IDE should have
| an editor?

No, it should clearly be able to work with an editor.  But reinventing
a new editor for every application makes no sense to me.

| the editor a part of the IDE.  People can open emacs alongside a
| terminal (or the Octave IDE for that matter) if that is how they
| prefer to operate, but it wouldn't be as integrated with the IDE.

Octave is a GNU project and Emacs is the GNU editor.  If any editor
should be integrated with Octave, I think it should be Emacs.  At the
very least, it should be possible for Emacs to work just as closely
with the IDE as some other editor.

Why do you think this would be a difficult task?  What does the editor
need to do to communicate with Octave?  Why can't Emacs be made to do
that?  It seems to me that Emacs can be made to do just about
anything, so I don't understand why this would be such a difficult
task.

jwe