I tried VS Code, but can’t figure out how to get the lang-4d-support extension to work. I think it requires some file association configuration in the settings.json file. I tried some things, but I was just guessing, so it had no effect.
BTW, does the lang-4d-support extension really know about 4D Tags? I’ll try Atom, if I get a chance, later this week. Tom Benedict > On Mar 26, 2020, at 15:23, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 < > [email protected]> 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:[email protected] >> ********************************************************************** > > > > -- > 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:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
