Mark Gordon wrote:

> There have been various unofficial GUI front-ends that do nothing more
> than figure out what command line you want to run and run that (though
> none are current so far as I know), and there are various versions of an
> emacs mode that offers many of the benefits of the integrated editor
> from the Windows version.  At this point I don't anticipate an official
> Unix GUI interface, integrated editor, or emacs mode any time soon.
> People who really need GUI front ends aren't typically using Unix.
> Maybe in a few years it will be necessary.  It probably wouldn't have an
> integrated editor, though it might be made to open files in a
> user-defined editor.  The last thing Unix needs is another text editor.

After looking around for a bit, I have found at least one current
front-end under active development.

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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