Tom, VS Code is pretty good too. And there's an add on for 4D. It won't give you the the intelligence of the method editor (eg. linking to another method) but it will show the code blocks like you describe. Plus it's just a more full featured text editor.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:22 PM Tom Benedict via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I’m very new to 4D Web programming and I’m trying to get comfortable with > the tools. One thing that I’m challenged by is debugging HTML. > > For example, I’m getting an error on a web page that says “4DENDIF > expected”, so I’ve traced the html in Chrome using the Developer Tools and > I have identified the suspect html file. Now I am poring over that file in > my text editor, matching the 4DIF to the 4DENDIF tags. This works, but it > is tedious and time consuming and error prone. It would nice to have a tool > that could format it automatically. > > I don’t know much about text editors, but I think what may be needed is a > custom lexer. I use NotePad++, which seems to support adding lexers, but > would be willing to consider changing to something else, if it could learn > about 4D Tags. Is there an Text Editor which knows about 4D Tags? Does > anyone know how to write a lexer for 4D Tags? > > Or maybe I’m making this too difficult? > > Tom Benedict > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** -- Kirk Brooks San Francisco, CA ====================== ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
