Folding browser & editor+RebPad+(X)Emacs

Hello Andrew/Rebols: I use vim which has folding features, but I don't use them, but I should get used to them. I'm also exploring (X)Emacs which has folding features and I am kind of familiar with the 'emacs' style folding used in their configuration services. In my opinion, folding is an attractive idea. What is more attractive to me is the bigger picture: A programmer's editor written in rebol. For rebol. and customizable in rebol. This idea has enormous appeal to me. I note that emacs is customizable by it's own proprietory version of lisp (elisp). I think that an all - rebol editor could be a killer app given that it offered full extendability using rebol itself. It could also serve to tie together some of the other good rebol applications that have been developed. I want to add that I found François Jouen's Rebpad very intriguing and was a little disappointed by what seemed to be a dismissal by some because of all the french 'words and strings. Well I can't speak or read french either, but I consider that to be a moot point. Many multi-lingual computer programs have been written. Using associative lists, one could have a rebol editor that "speaks" French, Spanish, Klingon, Middle Earth or <blush>English</blush>. But the bottom line is this: A edit for rebol, in rebol, extendable by rebol. Able to work with other rebol apps. Hugely appealing. Regards (your linguistically challenged english-only reboler) -tim- * Gregg Irwin <[greggirwin--mindspring--com]> [021223 08:29]:

> Hi Andrew, > AM> What do people think about a cgi script that would allow a browser to view > [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.

Hehehe. See Ammon's RIDE project. (You can communicate on it through AltME on the REBOL world.) Though I'm not sure if he's considering a freeware minimized version. (Ammon? Could be a VERY good idea!) Now, I'm not speaking for anyone else on the RIDE project at all. However, if you were to go to the REBOL world on AltME, enter the RIDE group, I think it would be appreciated if people mentioned certain behaviors which they greatly admire in other editors, and behaviors they would really, really like to see in a REBOL-specific editor. As far as RebPad - I've been meaning to look into translating the UI portions of that, if no one beats me to it. --Charles

Hi Tim, TJ> A programmer's editor written in rebol. For rebol. and TJ> customizable in rebol. This idea has enormous appeal to TJ> me. I note that emacs is customizable by it's own proprietory TJ> version of lisp (elisp). Yes indeed. I've mentioned this to some people myself, and many of them have already thought about it as well. We have a big advantage in that we don't have to write the implemenation/extension language; it's been done for us. :-) -- Gregg