Hiptex, text editor with recursive block highlighting

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Hiptex, text editor with recursive block highlighting

Missing from the header: it's for the iPhone only. So, a 1 minute video of how it looks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdEPjjQWsxI Whenever you start a block (e.g "(", "[" ) it will update the highlighting of the background to reflect how deep you are. For many language settings though (e.g java/c), the "{" is highlighted as indent lines instead. But basically it's a C++/OpenGL text editor that runs fast enough on an iPhone 3GS (apparently some still use it on that thing). Here's a video of it running on an iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w8M3F2RdOU (sorry for the video quality) The problem with text editors on a mobile phone is that it's just hard to type on, and nobody would bother typing code on the phone as it's rather hard to do. However, this could probably run nicely on the google glasses. This text editor is lightweight in terms of CPU usage, and is sort of usable on lower resolution (it was running on non-retina 480x320 mode for a while). With some kind of input device I think it'll be possible to use it nicely enough while outside, etc. Probably not something like the keyboard pants though. Thoughts? I thought it might be worth a try showing this around, the project's been out there for more than a year, and it only gets the occasional pickup from people randomly searching for text editors on the app store.