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Hi guys!
Whether there is somebody who tried the new version of uVision4 based on the Scintilla editor? Such *** I yet did not see! Where illumination of labels? Where put illumination of keywords? Why memory windows and assembly do not change a font? What for a hogwash with Russian fonts why are not displayed in a memory window? Words are not present...
Igor//
Another possible solution would be for the vendors to use a proven high-quality editor component from a third party.
Which appears to be exactly what Keil did in a recent update to uVision: they switched to Scintilla, if memory serves. And look what it got them: even louder complaints than they used to receive for their own editor in recent times.
Lesson learned: there really is no way of getting this right to everyone's satisfaction.
I'm convinced that the Eclipse way is the right general idea. Given that there's almost certainly no such thing as the one, perfect IDE that everyone will accept without reservations, let's at least settle on the next best thing: one entirely usable, full-featured IDE core that everybody can use free of charge, and build their own extensions on top of. The world doesn't need more than one, maybe two of those.
Sure, Eclipse does have its own quirks and limitations, but at least it has only one set of those, which allows one to eventually find work-arounds for, or learn to accept them. But that's still way better than having dozens of IDEs each with its own set of different quirks and limitations, not to mention the truly inexcusable blunders each of those seemingly has to have at least one of.
sure there is, drop the editor and provide interfaces to the most popular REAL editors
No, I think that would inconvenience more than it helps!
I suspect that most people don't want to have to mess about with finding & integrating their own editor.
I tend to agree that Eclipe is probably the way to go. Sure, it has its own annoyances - but at least it is (or would be) standard across multiple vendors...
That's no solution ... it's capitulation. An IDE that doesn't even haven an integrated editor has stopped being what it says it is.
Not even to mention that no matter how many of those popular editors you've integrated, people will still complain that their personal favourite isn't on that list.
Although Mr Broeker normally talks like the stuff that comes out the backside of the male bovine, on this point he is possibly correct. One thing is for sure, no chosen editor will please everyone.