[haiku-development] Re: StyledEdit status line: #3655 vs hrev30006. Let's decide.

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:48:03 +0100

On 25/11/2012 14:45, Siarzhuk Zharski wrote:
> Am 25.11.2012 13:02, schrieb Paul Davey:
>> Can Pe then please be the default editor for .txt files?
>> These are usually plain unformatted text and if StyledEdit shouldnt
>> have functions that help editing them then they should be displayed
>> and edited in Pe which would be more suited to them.
> 
> Pe distributed as optional package so it may not exist on the user
> system. From the other side it is common practice that 3rd party
> application changes MIME settings for supported file types either at
> first start or by using proper installation script calling setmime command.
> 
> BTW, does Pe handle the styling run arrays stored int txt file attributes?

Don't think so.
And it doesn't support multiple fonts.
Though it could be interesting to add support for the font_runs when
copying to the clipboard, to get the syntax colors...

François.

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