[OT] Rev + BBEdit

[Richard Gaskin]

Thanks for the ideas, folks.  I've long believed it should be possible 
to make a really good editor for Transcript, and since Ken and I have 
been using ROSE for some time maybe I'll be able to add more of these at 
it continues to evolve.

The hardest part is Rev compatibility, since it's currently built for 
MC:  editing works well, but historically MC and Rev both mash editing 
and debugging into the same window, which makes swapping out editors 
MUCH harder that it would be otherwise, and arguably makes for a UI 
which compromised both tasks.

My long term goal is to separate debugging from editing, with controls 
and layout optimized for those very different tasks.  If I can get a 
version of ROSE with that separation running in MC without dependency on 
any of its components it shouldn't be hard to port it to Rev.

For reference I've compiled the wish list thus far below.  Feel free to 
keep adding new ideas.  Ideally, Rev is fast enough and flexible enough 
that we should never need to go outside the engine to edit our scripts.

I've broken the list into two parts; the ones here at the top could use 
more explanation to describe exactly what you're after - are they 
documented in BBEDit?  If so I'll just look 'em up there:

- Diff
- Plugin facility so we can integrate Git
- folding conditionals
- refactoring support
- cTags
- conditional balancing



- Macros
- clippings/boilerplates
- find differences
- parentheses balancing
- integrated version control
- integrated lint
- plugin facility for tools
- powerful Search/Replace which optionally uses GREP
   with optional Find All search mode


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