Or maybe upon first use in LinuxCNC a box would pop up to allow the choice of available editors.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 11:18 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Sunday 17 March 2019 11:39:05 Jon Elson wrote: > > > On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson > > > > > > <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > > > > Emacs is a "heavyweight" editor. It pulls in so many > > language support libraries that it takes a long time to > > load. It used to take a whole minute on my CNC computer a > > long time ago. That one was very short on memory, but was > > good enough for the old EMC2. Much better now, but still a > > few seconds delay to start. > > > > > Doesn't appear on the LiveCD as far as I can see. vi is there... > > > > > > This isn't about editors. This is about changes we can make in the > > > LinuxCNC sample configs _only_ to make the user experience a bit > > > better. > > I think it IS about editors, making sure the experience of using it > impresses the user that this IS a professional cnc even if its free. > > > > > > And clicking "Edit G-code" and having nothing happen is not good. > > Agree 100%. > > > Hmm, maybe during install the script could look for what > > editors are actually installed and select one of them to be > > used by the Edit button. > > > > Jon > > Thats a great idea, Jon. > > And making the script smart enough to know the difference between a good > editor and a potential disaster is an exercise for the script author. > Probably better to give it a list of known good editors, best to safely > usable, with nano at the bottom of the list, not because its dangerous > but because of its ugly face, its otherwise a good editor. Heck, you can > even train it to scroll a line at a time. That half a screen jump > bothers my concentration. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
