Hi! I suggest a new text editor or even programmer's IDE app-editors/xcoral Xcoral is a multiwindow mouse-based text editor for Unix and X Window System. Syntax highlighting and auto-indentation are available. A built-in browser enables you to navigate through C functions, C++ and Java classes, methods and files. A SMall Ansi C Interpreter (Smac) is also built-in to dynamically extend the editor's possibilities (user functions, key bindings, modes etc). Xcoral provides regions and marks, kill-buffers, macros system and unlimited undo. redline.
Created attachment 38405 [details] xcoral-3.42b.ebuild
dsd, want this?
I'm reluctant to add an ebuild for an inactive package into portage (last release was 18 months ago). From what I can see, there isn't much demand for this package. I can't find any shape of user community either. Are there any features in this editor that you miss from other similar packages?
If anyone is really missing this package, let me know.
I just found this when checking to see whether there was an existing Xcoral ebuild before using it as a guinea-pig to learn how to create ebuilds myself. (The other such I have in mind is procmeter3.) To answer the features question, I am unaware of any other GUI editor/IDE that is as powerful, as lightweight, as clean, and as easy to use as Xcoral. It's been my favorite GUI editor for probably fifteen years now, and in those fifteen years, nothing else has even come close. Just FYI, I don't think it's so much a case of it being unmaintained as that it requires very little maintenance. Since it's written as a fairly low-level Xlib application rather than chasing the bleeding edge of Gnome or KDE as so many current applications do, it doesn't *have* to be patched every two weeks when some Gnome developer decides to completely reinvent a library API for something to do. It links against libc, libX11, libXau, libXdmcp, libxcb, and libdl, and that's IT. The current version, xcoral-3.47, a compatibility update, was released in April 2008 and no changes have been required since. Xcoral's stability is a quiet counterexample to much of what's wrong with Gnome.
