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OpenSource WishList

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Andreas Schnellbacher:
Sure, we all know that a GTK port (to build GIMP) will never happen. But it's a wishlist.

Jochen Schäfer:
I would like to see KDevelop or something similar.

Ibrahim Hakeem:
Notepad++ is a really big one in my eyes, it's easily the best text editor I've ever used and I'd give anything to see it on OS/2.

Martin Iturbide:

--- Quote from: Ibrahim Hakeem on January 20, 2021, 02:10:28 pm ---Notepad++ is a really big one in my eyes, it's easily the best text editor I've ever used and I'd give anything to see it on OS/2.

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Reading more about Notepad++ source code, it seems it is based on Scintilla (open source text editing library).  It seems there is Scintilla Qt, maybe there is hope :)

General note: It is kind of hard to know in detail on OSS project which libraries does it uses, so we can at least make a quick review on how portable are those projects to our platform.

Regards

Andreas Schnellbacher:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on January 20, 2021, 07:33:42 pm ---Reading more about Notepad++ source code, it seems it is based on Scintilla (open source text editing library).  It seems there is Scintilla Qt, maybe there is hope :)

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It's W$-only Software and like some other editors, it's most likely written with Delphi. There exist Scintilla interfaces for several programming languages and platforms.

BTW: Getting the last version of Slickedit for OS/2 open-sourced would be the best solution. ;-) (I know, it won't happen.) It's far the best text editor on OS/2 and still much better than any free W$ editor.

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