[PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:03 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> sorry to chime in so late, but:
>
> Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> I have just a minor suggestion for an improvement.
>> What if it were possible to edit a Pd patch as text from within Pd?
>> I often open a patch in a text editor in order to mass copy sends and
>> receives or GUI elements or whatever.  The syntax is straightforward
>> enough that sometimes this is quicker than clicking, for a whole  
>> bunch
>> of items.  It would be cool if I could do that from within Pd,  
>> without
>> closing the patch...
>
> wouldn't it be way cooler to be able to copy a (part of a) pd-patch
> (Ctrl-A Ctrl-C) and paste it into your favourite text-editor?
> and then do the reverse to get the patch back into pd?
>
> any text-editor widget i could imagine would never be as powerful as a
> _real_ editor (like emacs or vi)...
>
> i think desiredata has something like this (at least you could Ctrl-V
> the text-form of a patch from an email into dd)
>
>
> (of course you could copy the text from the "text-editor view"  
> within pd
> to your favourite editor and vice-versa; which would give a fast (and
> always available) editor (e.g. for simple edits); but it might be  
> easier
> to implement just the global clipboard)

I think there is room for both, plus Kzrysztof already has a built-in  
editor implemented.  I think the built-in editor would be good for  
quick, small edits.

.hc


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