[plt-scheme] Re: An Editors Tale

Hi,

how about creating a plugin for Visual Studio .NET? :-)

I'd love to use VS *and* Scheme.

Best regards

Guenther


Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote:

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> In the morning I wake up and start my Linux system, when I startx
> DrScheme shows up and I continue coding what I left when I went to bed.
> DrScheme after all is our eyes in to our scheme programming. When most
> of us (ok, not those who use Emacs with MzScheme) think about
> programming in Scheme they imagina a DrScheme window. It's incredible
> how DrScheme is so good and so helpful with its very nice test suite and
> help manuals always at hand however when it's time to go to bed I dream
> about the same DrScheme with a different visual appearance and new
> features. I can't understand why is (in my oppinion) so 'ugly'. Ok, it's
> not DrScheme fault, but xWindows/wxxt or whatever. My question is: how
> much wanted and how difficult it is to build a GTK or other GUI toolkit
> DrScheme interface?  
> AFAIK it seems pretty difficult since it seems DrScheme is so tightly
> integrated into xWindows. Would MrEd API have to be rewritten?
> I think a more professional look would not only help PLT Scheme to have
> a wider audience outside universities but would also help those who
> program in DrScheme. Features like automatic code generation for
> classes, methods, getters and setters for example would be very, very
> nice. A tabbed window with multiple files open would also be nice...
> when I imagine this it's a little orgasmic. With such an IDE and Scheme
> at my fingertips I think I would be able to sleep even better after a
> hard day. :)
> 
> I would like thoughts about this...
> With this post I don't mean DrScheme interface is trash, I like it very
> much... consider my idea as a personal opinion of improvement.
> 
> Cheers,
>