>> >> I would contribute to this project, if it 
is done in a language I
>> >> can work with. Good luck!
>> >
>> >I had planned to write this in Ruby itself.
>>
>> Ok. I assume it would rely on native-compiled 
extensions for stuff
>> like the editor itself.
>
>At the risk of sounding nieve - can you 
ellaborate what you mean by this? 

Speed. Unless the chosen GUI toolkit 
(Tk/FLTK/GTK/FOX/???) already includes an editor 
with syntax-highlighting, we'll have to find one 
or write it. If we write it in ruby, I'm guessing 
it would be too slow.

Kevin