SergeStinckwich wrote:
So if we have a Smalltalk text pane with a VI or emacs bindings, they will be happy ? ;-)
If I had VI key bindings when I started using Squeak, it would have eased my adoption greatly - it was really hard for me to give up the power and efficiency of doing everything without taking my fingers off the keyboard. One of the answers I got was that because good Smalltalk methods are short, you don't need them - ha ha. So we have our own religion, too :) In actuality, this just makes the dramatic productivity increase the key bindings offer less. But here's the joke - the SVI project provides VI bindings. Here's another, Lukas showed a git interface at ESUG. A third? The GTK bindings mentioned were originally in Squeak, but there was no interest (per steph). To me, the primary issue is an inability to use and improve the things that we *already* have because: * I can't understand the intention of code - no tests and documentation * I don't know they exist - no central place/process which includes the above It seems the pattern is: 1. work on something awesome 2. let it disappear into squeaksource, because no one can find it, or figure out how to use it 3. 5 years later, have someone else do the same awesome thing from scratch 4. repeat step 2 my 2c Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Few-thoughts-about-Google-Summer-of-Code-tp3018404p301... Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.