On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:06:02PM -0500, S McGowan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey all, > > First of all, hello again! Been a while since I've posted to the > list, but I've been here lurking and watching ;-) > > Anyway, I wanted to pose a general question to the list to see > if it turns up new suggestions for everyone/me. > > What is your preferred editor when coding in the dialplan? This > is mainly aimed at those of you who write the larger, more > complex dialplans. > > I've been using UltraEdit, but would like to see if I can't find > a better one, especially one with the ability to add-on and make > it more Asterisk friendly. > > What I'm looking for: >
Let's try to give an answer that is slightly better than simply "$FAVORITE_EDITOR" and variations, please. a vim user myself. I don't use most of what you descvribe below, however: > 1. Syntax Highlighting, and ease of updating that highlighting Update asterisk.vim > 2. Auto-updating lists (like sidebars) with: (this is a total > WISH list) > Variables > Contexts > a Command list? Not sure how to implement this in vim Maybe through some tweak of ctags? > 3. SVN and/or CVS integration > 4. Project ability There are standard macros for that. See http://vim.org/ . As I don't use it myself, I can't comment on them. > 5. Macros (Macros are soooo handy!) naturally. try :h map > 6. Autocompletion (and autocomplete edit ability) Depends on the type of auto completion. Both vim and emacs have a simple words-based autocompletion that runs out to be a very powerful tool (in vim. If you have something working with ctags, then it can probably complete better spanning multiple files. I'm not sure regarding context-sensitive completion. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
