make scratch a frontend to limetext backend
The best text editor I have ever used (both under windows and under linux) is Sublime Text. There are two issues with the text editor, though. First, it is not open source and second, it doesn't seem to be under active development/
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Scratch already outsources syntax highlighting, editting, and some other features to the GtkSourceView. Moreover making Scratch a frontend to Lime would involve some heavy work in binding it's Go to C and that C to Vala. While this proposal isn't necessarily bad, it may help your case to list some features that LimeText could help Scratch with that GtkSourceView doesn't.