Ben Rubinstein wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
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.
An attractive idea, but still brings us back to the central problem of
script editing in Rev: to the best of my knowledge every script editor
available, even MC's, is bound up in a debugger. Lose the editor, and
you lose debugging.
And while editing can be done anywhere (MC's had the ability to use an
external editor built in since v1.6 when I started using it, although
IIRC it's only for Linux), debugging can only be done inside Rev.
Sooner or later, someone needs to bite the bullet and build a debugger
that's independent from the editor.
Ken maintains MC's Variable Watcher, which is as close to being
independent of any specific IDE as I've seen yet. MC also has a
built-in profiler, which although still bound to other parts it could be
extracted and would make a nice addition to scripting in any Rev-based
IDE. I have some complexity analysis tools I could toss into the mix as
well.
But nice-to-haves aside, the core work of making a separate debugger is
a big tak, and since I spend more time editing than debugging I'm
putting my time into the former right now. And with the amount of
JavaScript/HTML stuff I'm doing these days, I'll have my hands full
making a dual-use editing environment (not to mention using it <g>).
Anyone feel like taking up the challenge of making a dedicated debugger?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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