Re: [Bug-zile] Google Summer of Code 2014

[Reuben Thomas]

On 6 March 2014 20:21, Garnaik Sumeet <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Sir,

             I am delighted to hear back from you.
Since my knowledge regarding text editors is limited to designing and implementing the basic buffer management,basic screen management using ncurses library and the ability to support only ascii,I would love to work on the following few things:

1)adding unicode support,since this would help me gain knowledge regarding managing unicode in editors.

This is certainly something we'd like for Zile, and might well be the right amount of work for a GSoC project.

 

2)I am keen to learn the basics behind the concepts of syntax highlighting,so recreating a parser would be a great start.

Gary Vaughan is better placed to comment on this one.

 

3)I would love to implement a few new buffer implementations and allow myself to go out my comfort zone by implementing a few I am not acquainted with.

That's an interesting idea; I'm not sure whether it fits into any of the projects we have in mind. Gary?

4)Would love to add new editors to the framework.

Reintegration of the experimental editor Zee is the obvious candidate here.

 

All the things above will help me gain what I am seeking.Sir to be honest I am not familiar with zile code base and I am not familiar with lua,but know a few scripting languages,I have moderate knowledge regarding bash and have written a few small programs in it.

I think Zile should not be too difficult to get to grips with, it's fairly small and well-structured.

As well as learning some Lua, you should also familiarise yourself with the process of building Zile, starting with LuaRocks (www.luarocks.org) to install the dependencies. Following the instructions provided would be a good test of those instructions, too!