On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 12:01 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> 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. > Well Gene, like I said, I used it for programming a lot, with 1000's of lines of code per file and never experienced any of those issues. Mark _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
