A couple links that might be of interest for the developers

[oblomov]

Free Pascal Compiler: http://www.freepascal.org/

Orthodox File Manager: http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml

One of the points of the OFMs is "support for basic editing capabilities". So I was wondering: would it be possible to design a basic (very basic, à la Notepad) editor in TC, with extensibility options (just like the viewer is)?

[Hacker]

I think an editor in TC is unnecessary. We already have the lister, which can be extended to an editor with eg SynPlus.

Roman

[ggiunta]

It is so easy to configure the editor to be used with F4, and there are so many out there (Notepad++ and WScite just to name 2 based on scintilla component) that it would really be a waste of time.

[icfu]

There already is a little editor in TC, just press Ctrl-Z...

So, all ghisler has to do is extend that component slightly extend with a possibility to create new file, load and save and people would be happy. For example it could be loaded if no external editor is specified instead of displaying a useless "File not found" message.

I support the wish, although it's not really needed.

I can only recommend to use ChoiceEditor as editor for F4 because then you are free to choose which editor you prefer for what file extension.

Icfu

[ghisler(Author)]

I haven't added an internal editor for multiple reasons (although it wouldn't be hard, as you can see with the Ctrl+Z editor):
- user needs are very different, e.g. programming, html, letters with spell checking etc. etc.
- the power of Windows is the multitasking
- using of the editor while TC is busy

The only reason why lister is internal is for using it in Ctrl+Q, but even here I had to add the plugin interface to support the various user needs.