Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thanks for the ideas, folks. I've long believed it should be possible to make a really good editor for Transcript, and since Ken and I have been using ROSE for some time maybe I'll be able to add more of these at it continues to evolve.
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My long term goal is to separate debugging from editing
Robert Brenstein wrote:
You may want to fetch TextWrangler, a free sibbling of BBEdit, from BareBones website. Most of those things are there, so you can just try them out.
Which somewhat makes Robert's point... Far be it from me to discourage anyone from doing a lot of work to make a better script editor in Rev, that I can then take a free (or indeed reasonably priced!) ride on. But I wonder whether the effort might instead better go into finding a better solution to integration with existing external editors. That way, maybe we could all take a free (or reasonably priced) ride on the work done in BBEdit, TextMate, Eclipse and the like. BBEdit and Eclipse both have excellent diff presentation; like others, I more frequently than I'd like to admit have recourse to copying scripts out to BBEdit to compare and resolve differences. BBEdit and TextMate (and Eclipse?) do code folding (though not I think for Revolution - I don't know whether this is something that can be dealt with in the language module). BBEdit and TextMate (and Eclipse?) have a whole 'roundtrip' mechanism, designed to support use as an external editor for another IDE. We already have two major editors in the Revolution world, plus the MC options. Rather than putting more effort into creating a third, could we do better, as Robert suggested, to hook into all the work that's already gone into the external editors? Or, is this a Mac-centric view? I don't know anything about the state of programming editors on Windows or Linux (though presumably Eclipse might be an option in all cases). - Ben, not actually offering to do any of this work himself... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
