fxruby users - Mar 2006 - Multitab FXRuby Editor with movable tabs - possible?

Hi list,

I want to make an editor in FXRuby, that shall feature (as 
my personal basic needs)

- ruby syntax highlighting (and php ;>), in general though any 
kind of syntax highlighting words easily
- tabs/buffers that have one file in them
- ability to rearrange tabs, by clicking with mouse on them and 
move them to another position
- vim like keybindings (optional)

Anyway, i am asking whether this is possible.
In Ruby/GTK2 I came pretty far, had tabs, could rearrange them 
(though not yet at drag and drop, which is the thing I am trying 
to pay most attention soon), but I got a bit frustrated at it 
and dropped it for some time. Then I picked about FOX again ;)
(First toolkit was Tcl/Tk via ruby, this is really very ugly
in my opinion)





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On Mar 21, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Roebe XXX wrote:
> I want to make an editor in FXRuby, that shall feature (as
> my personal basic needs)
>
> - ruby syntax highlighting (and php ;>), in general though any
> kind of syntax highlighting words easily
> - tabs/buffers that have one file in them
> - ability to rearrange tabs, by clicking with mouse on them and
> move them to another position
> - vim like keybindings (optional)
>
> Anyway, i am asking whether this is possible.
I think that you will probably run into some of the same frustrations 
that you did with Gtk, but it''s just a guess. It will definitely be 
difficult to figure out how to do the rearrangement of tabs via drag 
and drop. And unless you''re just insistent on developing the syntax 
highlighting portion yourself, you might want to base the editor on 
Scintilla (via FXScintilla).

So, is it possible? Maybe. Seems to me that it would be so much easier 
to download one of the thousands of text editors that already do this 
stuff and be done with it, but what do I know? ;)