Have the authors of those programs ever actually used a properly functioning
text editing program? Can xmlcopyeditor even open the files it saves?I have,
several times over the years, run into programs that could save in formats they
could not open, or would auto-corrupt files they'd just saved upon re-opening
them. So if you couldn't get the job done 100% and perfect in one go, forget it.
For example trueSpace can save to VRML 1 and 2 but cannot open version 2 files.
There was a version of Word Perfect for Windows that was a decent HTML editor,
or would have been if it didn't totally FUBAR HTML files it had been used to
create when the user re-opened them in Word Perfect. Way back in the DOS days
there was a graphics program I was eager to like because of the features it
had, until I first used it, did something, saved the image - then found the
program could not open that format.
Being able to open file formats it can't save to is nearly as horrible, if the
software can save to a different format without making a mess of the data.
On Sunday, January 13, 2019, 5:49:54 PM MST, Gene Heskett
<[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings all;
In search of something, anything that might give me a clue as to why
about a months work on custompanel.xml was killing linuxcnc, I installed
xmlindent, and xmlcopyeditor.
Thinking I might find a clue in the re-indented code, I checked the man
page for xmlindent. But it has only a -option for an output file. So I
ran it. Never came back, so I added the -w option. Never came back.
Opps, now I have a zero length file where it was 130+ LOC with an error
of some sort that let it load up to the final </pyvcp> before it puked
at column 2. I can get most of it back by dragging it in from another
machine with a similar setup but to restore what I had 20 minutes ago
will take a hell of a lot longer than I have left in me for tonight. So
then I tried xmlcopyeditor, thinking I could copy/paste into that. But
its apparently only for new creation as it does not accept a paste.
WTF??
So where can I find an xml editor that will let me copy/paste from the
Document.pdf, most of the stuff from pages 392 on to get an rpm meter,
on, fwd, rev leds, and append align.xml stuffs to that with added status
leds to show the current machine alignment state, and which will also
show any errors (cuz the Doc.pdf has quite a few errors of its own).
And preferably not capable of destroying several weeks worth of work over
the last 5 years?
I know this isn't your fault, none of you wrote this stuff, but this xml
bs needs warning labels because it can destroy anybodies sanity.
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