Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year
Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year
- From: David Dunham <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:55:25 -0700
On 21 Jul 2006, at 04:58, Gérard Iglesias wrote:
I think that it is related to the Text Cocoa architecture, which is
not designed with Code editing in mind. It is intended to allow
rich text editing, I suppose that the glyph layout algorithm is too
general for fixed width font used in code editing.
A number of people seem to be forgetting that code editing should in
fact allow for multiple styles. For example, I display comments in a
proportional font (since they're more legible that way). Also, there
are probably some programmers who want to be able to read their
comments in their native language (I've seen code with comments in
Russian).
Of course, Symantec C++'s IDE had syntax styling, I believe before
PowerPC Macs (or shortly after their introduction). So it shouldn't
require a modern-speed machine.
But CodeWarrior didn't. I for one am really glad that Xcode supports it.
David Dunham A Sharp, LLC
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