On 9/8/22 09:10, Mark Wendt wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 8:07 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
There is your first mistake GEDIT. It will eventually play 52 pickup
with your code. I banned it from
any system here years ago, Switched to geany as a nearly work alike, and
have not had a single
instance of gibberish that I didn't type since. The 3rd time it
destroyed a 700+ LOC .hal file for me
and it took me a week or more to recreate it was the last straw.
Not sure why you've had issues with gedit. I've used that application for
nigh on 25 years and never had a problem with it, whether writing
complicated shell scripts, programming in different languages. It's still
a staple application I use quite often
I came to the conclusion something was messing with its buffer list.
About the 100th time you
saved your file and reran linuxcnc to check the results, it would forget
300 lines of code, and
insert copies of a random paragraph several times at random location in
the code. Totally
destroying any resemblance to a functioning .hal file.
Each time it happened, the machine then passed 2 to 5 full passes of
memtest86, three different machines.
The only common part was gedit.
nano needs to have an alias to "nano -Sl ", which gets you line numbers
and smooth scrolling. I use
it a lot, but it cannot make hard copy. that I've found.
geany works a lot like gedit but if you want hard copy to go put with
the machine geany has that, and has
yet in the ensuing decade+ to scramble a file.
Take care & stay well, Mark.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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