Author Archives: swilmet

Thoughts on live previews in LaTeXila

Posted on January 10, 2015 by swilmet

Several years ago I talked about some principles for the user experience of LaTeXila, a GTK+ LaTeX editor for GNU/Linux. The conclusion: The idea of LaTeXila is to always deal directly with the LaTeX code, while simplifying as most as … Continue reading →

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Object-oriented design best practices

Posted on August 27, 2014 by swilmet

Here is another book review, this time about object-oriented design. Programming Best Practices We can learn by our own experience, we can use our common sense, we can learn by more experienced developers when contributing to an existing project. But … Continue reading →

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File loading and saving in GtkSourceView, finally

Posted on July 9, 2014 by swilmet

Last year GtkSourceView saw a new search and replace API. This year it’s the file loading and saving that has just landed! It is in the continuity of making the gedit source code more reusable for other text editors. In … Continue reading →

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Making the gedit source code more reusable

Posted on May 20, 2014 by swilmet

On IRC I see some developers working on other text editors based on GtkTextView/GtkSourceView. It is a good thing in my opinion to have specialized text editors. They are easier to use and configure. A specialized application has a potentially … Continue reading →

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{specialized, general-purpose} × {text editors, IDEs}

Posted on February 11, 2014 by swilmet

Some thoughts about text editors, IDEs, specialized or general-purpose applications. Several languages Other tasks Plugins Specialized text editor No No ? General-purpose text editor Yes No Yes Specialized IDE No Yes ? General-purpose IDE Yes Yes Yes The above table … Continue reading →

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Search and replace behavior for a text editor

Posted on December 8, 2013 by swilmet

The search and replace is one of those features that have a wide variety of different implementations and behaviors across applications. The nice thing with my work I did this summer on GtkSourceView, is that you can build whatever behavior … Continue reading →

Posted in GtkSourceView, LaTeXila | 6 Comments

The GSoC on GtkSourceView/gedit comes to an end

Posted on September 21, 2013 by swilmet

A small update on my GSoC. The first part took a little longer than expected. But I’m happy with the results, the search and replace API is simple and flexible, there were not a lot of bugs to fix, and … Continue reading →

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Regex search in gedit and GtkSourceView, finally

Posted on August 19, 2013 by swilmet

Although regular expression searches were possible with plugins, it is now available by default in gedit. The search and replace works too, and you can use backreferences (\0, \1, …) in the replacement text. All this work has been merged … Continue reading →

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Align parameters of a C function declaration, with lineup-parameters

Posted on July 25, 2013 by swilmet

Renaming a GObject class can involve a lot of manual work. Once the type is renamed, the parameters of the function declarations are no longer aligned. In the following example, GtkSourceSearch has been renamed as GtkSourceSearchContext: guint _gtk_source_search_replace_all (GtkSourceSearchContext *search, … Continue reading →

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Search and replace in gedit and GtkSourceView

Posted on July 15, 2013 by swilmet

My GSoC on GtkSourceView/gedit/… is coming along nicely. Here is a screenshot of the new search in gedit: The visible new thing is the “298 of 703” in the search entry, that shows the position of the current search match, … Continue reading →

Posted in gedit, GSoC, GtkSourceView | 7 Comments