The jhs jijs problems stem from the complexity of the html5 contenteditable control. The html support for this control was new at the time jhs was developed and unfortunately support (and bugs) varied greatly across the various browsers. The situation has stabalized and I am convinced that with some serious effort the problems with jhs jijs could be resolved. Unfortunately right now this is not a Jsoftware priority. A wonderful exercise for an interested party.
I use JHS exclusively for my own work and deal with the situation as follows: 1. for local JHS (files on the same machine as JHS server) I use my editor of choice (currently gedit because it is pretty much the same across windows/linux/mac) for script editing and my own dead simple project manager to handle script loads and opens. 2, for remote JHS I use the new (not yet part of the pacman jhs update) jijs editor built for the ipad. This editor uses a simple textarea edit control and although missing syntax coloring behaves nicely. This was initially driven because the iphone/ipad devices don't support contenteditable at all. But I have found that for remote editing the simple textarea works nicely, reliably and is adequate for most needs. Over the next few weeks I hope to make updates available that will make these two approaches more available. Meanwhile if you are using JHS locally I'd suggest using a local editor and providing a JHS shortcut to do the load as this will likely meet your needs better than the current JHS jijs form. On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Arthur Anger <[email protected]> wrote: > I have continually encountered minor difficulties in editing scripts in j7 > displays, related to disappearance and reappearance of newlines and leading > blanks when copying and pasting within or between execution and script > windows. > It had become clear to me that there is some form of invisible formatting > information at the front of each line. > > In the last few days I have been struggling with encapsulating some > debugging > commands for convenience, and run into major inconveniences--spelling > errors > pointing to various uses of 13!:3. I thought that I had boiled down the > examples to a significant few, but kept getting inconsistent results as I > tried > variations. At long last, I examined the stored script with a. i., and > found > those formatting characters faithfully copied in front of the "erroneous" > verb. > > Executing < 226 128 139{ a. will show the invisibility of the > three-character > sequence found in my screen-copied example. > > I would hope that the file-updating portions of the JHS code could weed out > these characters when pasted in places where they don't belong. Thanks. > --Art Anger > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
