[Bf-python] Text Editor Project and BPyTextPlugin

[John R. Nyquist]

It's funny you bring up emacs. I just sent this comic to a friend last
night:
http://xkcd.com/378/

I'm a vi person myself  ;-)

Regards,
John


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Dietrich Bollmann <diresu at web.de> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> [admitting that I only saw the video and never tried your tools myself]:
> Your editing functionality looks very impressive and helpful!
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> As somebody completely accustomed to do everything with emacs I only
> wonder why every tool needs its own editor nowadays (see for example
> processing, grace, ...).
>
> I find it kind of annoying to have to learn another editor for every
> language / system I am dealing with and rather accept to do without some
> very specialised functionality than to renounce my good old emacs
> functionality I am used to.  Of course I don't want to say that
> everybody should only use emacs :) the same is valid (for other people
> used to those tools) for vi, eclipse, ...
>
> So here a question:  Do your scripts depend tightly on Blender - or
> could it be possible to integrate them easily into another editor
> (python / blender mode) also?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> And good luck :)
>
> Dietrich
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:18 +0100, Ian Thompson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on the text editor in Blender and have produced a system
> > of scripts to ease python development in Blender. The system works
> > around a BPy module, namely BPyTextPlugin. If possible I would like to
> > get some feedback on the implementation of this module.
> >
> > A topic of concern was that it caches results inside the module.
> > However, I was careful not to include pointers to any Blender objects
> > (which may become invalid). The only external pointers are to modules
> > imported by the system. If you have any questions, please reply here
> > or email, or catch me on IRC (I'm "quorn").
> >
> > The BPyTextPlugin module can be found here:
> >
> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/soc-2008-quorn/release/scripts/bpymodules/BPyTextPlugin.py
> >
> > With example scripts (starting "textplugin_") found here:
> >
> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/soc-2008-quorn/release/scripts/
> >
> > Note that to run these scripts you will need a recent build of my
> > soc-2008-quorn branch. Alternatively there is a video of the features
> > available here (and a little more information):
> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Quorn/SummerOfCode2008
> >
> > I look forward to hearing your opinion.
> >
> > Ian
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