[Tutor] Text editing

[Alan Gauld]

"Michael Schultz" <geekomancerone at gmail.com> wrote

> Hello everyone. I'm looking to build a cross-platform "writer's 
> assistant",
> and I figured my first step would be to re-invent the wheel, er I 
> mean built
> a simple rich-text editor as a base.
>
> I'm trying to figure out the simplest way to do so, and figured I'd 
> ask if
> anyone knew some good resources that give examples I can study?

Look at the code for IDLE.
Look at the Scintilla widget and the Ala Mode code in wxPython.

I assume you want to use a GUI toolkit.

Fuinally decide whether you want a full GUI WYSIWYG editing
interface or a command driven one (ala vi or emacs C- mode).
The latter is esier to build but less popular with modern users.

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Alan Gauld
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