Christoph Hormann wrote:
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> fabien Henon wrote:
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> In addition to what Warp wrote:
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> 
>>[...]
>>- Does your editor show you the previously opened POV-Ray files (so that
>>you can open them with a mere click) ?
> 
> 
> There are various add-ons for emacs allowing this in some form.  
> 
> 
>>- Does it handle syntax hightlighting well ( I know that Pyvon does not
>>do it well either because of speed)
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> 
> Emacs does this extremely well, in addition you also have a section
> browser.
I meant with very large files. I got emacs and Pyvon to hang while 
scrolling 5 Mb large files.

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> 
>>- Can you pause, then resume a render ?
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> 
> I doubt Pyvon can do this (unless you 'pause' by changing priority to
> lowest).  
> 
There is a pause/resume button in Pyvon.

> 
>>These are all the features can I can think of for the moment. There
>>might be others.
>>
>>As I am not sure that you can answer yes to all the questions above,
>>that is why I think POV would 'deserve' a GUI on its own.
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> 
> The question is not whether it 'deserves' it but whether a proprietary GUI
> would be better to use and more powerful than a good and customizable
> editor and some additional tools.  WinPOV - although being worked on for
> quite some time - is still much less powerful than a good editor.  Some
> key features of Emacs for me are:
> 
> - auto-indention (which is much more than WinPOV offers)
> - ability to edit all kind of text files in one editor (and each file type
> with its own syntax highlighting, navigation helps etc.)
> - auto-completition (which is syntax sensitive in emacs)
> - templates with automatically updated 'last modified' field
> - integration of tools like 'diff', 'ispell' and regular expression search
> 
There is auto-indentation in Pyvon along with auto-completion (which can 
be disabled).
As for the rest of the key features, I did not implement them in Pyvon 
or were not implemented in WinPov.
In which case do you use 'diff', 'ispell' and RE.search ? (regular 
expressions are intensively used in Pyvon for syntax highlighting)
What is the use of templates ?

Fabien

> These are just examples although you will already have a hard time
> implementing them in WinPOV or Pyvon.  I have no doubt there are some
> things rather difficult to do in emacs but for this some small tools
> implementing specific features would be better than a whole new editor.
> 
> Christoph
>

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