Discuss: retire multiple body editors?

[Edward K. Ream]

Thomas has just posted a discussion of the freewin plugin and its use for comparing nodes and taking notes.

As Thomas says, this plugin is more convenient and easier to use than using multiple body panes within Leo itself.

Is it time to retire Leo's add-editor command?  Your comments please.

Edward

[Thomas Passin]

As a bonus Freewin can render ReStructuredText bodies.  

One point to remember is that Freewin's editor is not a full-fledged Leo body editor.  It only gives you key shortcuts that the underlying Qt widget gives you, for example. I find that is plenty good enough for the intended purpose.

[Thomas Passin]

My first reaction was to say no, don't retire working code.  And I think some people use add-editor, even though it's fairly unworkable for me personally.  My second thought was to realize that there could be a change to a future version of Qt that makes the code stop working.  Who is going to want to maintain that? So now I lean towards removing it.  Is there a way the removal can be scheduled for a future release, and a deprecation warning given in the meantime?

I wonder if leoJS has the add-editor command working.  I imagine that it would not be hard to recreate Freewin in leoJS, and I think it would be worth doing once the plugin  mechanism is working.