[Qt-creator] QtCreator's {source editor}-based text editor :)

[Danny Price]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at nokia.com>wrote:

> On 30.07.2010 10:57, ext Danny Price wrote:
> > TextMate is a very heavy-weight product. Ideally this Creator 'Lite'
> > would just be a text editor with syntax highlighting (it doesn't really
> > need auto-completion).
>
> Arent there lots of lightwight text editors with syntax highlighting
> available already?


Few that are cross platform and none that I know about that aren't ugly as
sin and/or are as slow as a snail (Java).

Why add another one? To me creator shines since it
> understands the code I write. So some simple regular expression based
> syntax highlighting is not enough.
>

That's exactly why it would be good :)

>
> Of course you can just take the C++ engine build into creator (just
> include cplusplus.pri into your project, it is meant to be reusable) and
> build a more light weight editor. Of course for the engine to work
> properly you need to provide it with information like which other files
> are there, where to look for files to include, etc. ... basically all
> the stuff that makes a project:-)
>
> > Most importantly, it must launch really fast. The
> > recent releases of Creator have started to become rather sluggish on
> > startup; VisualStudio 2008 actually launches faster on my machine now
> > than Creator which isn't good.
>
> Where does it take so much time? It feels pretty fast for me (less that
> 3s). I did have trouble with sluggish startup for a while on windows
> though. Turned out that my proxy setup in windows was to blame. Windows
> insisted on figuring out by waiting for a timeout that I do not need a
> proxy (automatic proxy configuration)... and it insisted on blocking
> while doing this:-/
>

I'll start Creator from the Start menu in Windows (or the dock on my Mac at
home for that matter) and it can take up 10s to actually appear. I suspect
it might be something to do with loading content from the web and both
machines are on entirely different networks with good net connections.



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