Hi
I've come upon this thread as I also was struggling with finding an editor in
Linux. I tried eclipse+ASDT, but the I couldn't get it working properly. Also
eclipse is too heavy and slow for my tastes and I can't customise it to use
makefiles for building.
I normally use Scite, an exellent, lightweight customisable graphical editor
with support for many languages and code completion. Also it is available form
the standard repositories on my Ubuntu installation. Since Scite|Flash is
available for Windows, I managed to use their configuration files to get the
same features for the Linux scite.
First, download and install scite|flash for windows to get access to the files
included in the installation. Copy the flash.properties flash.api and (not sure
if these are necessary) API.custom API.flashcommClient API.flashcommServer from
the windows installation to where your Linux installation lives. For me this is
in /usr/share/scite.
Next edit your SciteGlobal.properties file (it might be possible and wiser to
add this to the sciteuser.porperties instead(?)). Add the folowing:
import flash
Uncomment this if you want autocompletion:
autocompleteword.automatic=1
If you want to add flash the the language selection menu, add this to the
"menu.language=\" entry:
Flash|as||\
With these changes you will have syntax highlighting, code folding and
completion for actionscript.
Lastly, I prefer to use makfiles, so I edited the Commands section of my
flash.properties file to contain:
command.compile.$(file.patterns.flash)=make
and nothing else.
I hope this helps other linux users. Scite is really excellent; I use it for
python and c coding (and now flash).
I haven't tested wheter it will interpret the compiler output errors to take
you to the right line. But with a bit of tinkering I'm sure it's possible...
Cheers
Izak
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