A scripter's nightmare (aka, most wanted feature)

Anyone else going bananas trying to script large projects without cut/paste?

The worst thing that happened to me so far with this client was that I got griefed away from the object I was working on and object went out of range... I hadn't saved the script in about 45 minutes (was doing a major code refactoring) so I lost all the work I had done*

I hereby vote that the most important feature fix is cut/copy/paste functionality. The LSL editor is enough of a pain _with_ copy and paste... it's absolutely ludicrous without it.

** In retrospect, it's probably wise to edit scripts from inventory and then put them into the object when ready.

Yes, ether copy and paste, or some way of import/export the source code. I could work on it in Joe or even from my laptop, then upload 'em.

The LSL editor seriously needs an overhaul. There is no reason why in 2006 I shouldn't be able to search that window, turn on/off wordwrap, or do Find/Replaces.

C'mon LL, Microsoft NOTEPAD has these features.

The list of needed features is never ending though, once you head down that path.

Far better to avoid that road entirely, and support instead SCRIPT SYNC'ING between SL and our local boxes, so that we can use the full power of our local preferred environments transparently.

This would be better for LL too. The last thing they need on their plate is perpetual maintainance of an in-game IDE.

I use the Crimson editor and just cut and paste back and forth. The in world editor IMHO is just there to allow minor changes.

Yeah, theres a few missing features in LSL IDE. It does do formatting and syntax checking (via changing color of statements) though.

What we need is a LSL syntax file for VIM.

Hang on, what's actually wrong with cut/copy/paste? Seems to work alright for me...

AJ,

Copy/cut/paste from the LSL editor doesn't work with the Linux alpha client for me (1.8.9 IIRC). Perhaps there is something unique about your configuration that makes it work for you?

I've tried both the shortcut keys as well as the Edit menu. In the case of the edit menu I can select "Copy", but "Paste" is greyed out.

* FYI, this is listed as a known bug already.. I just wanted to express my hopes that this feature be given high priority and perhaps see if anyone else had come up with a workaround until then.

Kinda, I'm running on Windows. Picked this thread up off new posts, I keep forgetting the Linux alpha's out now and didn't check which forum I was in.

Oops, soz.

I like this idea. Heck, if there was a way to read and write script objects in the game, we could implement it ourselves using XML-RPC.

That's a storming idea.

- Any suggestions for an API to read and write scripts in LSL?

- I assume that this has come up before in the forum. Any links?

It's probably worth looking at the pros and cons of LSL script reading/writing operations, versus some sort of entirely end-to-end llScriptSync() operation, which at first glance seems rather easy to do and would of course be much faster.

Oh man, whatever you do don't go wishing for new SL features. That way years of madness and disappointment lay. :3

I understand the sentiment.

However, the alternative is stagnation and death.