LSL Module for BBEdit/TextWrangler

I do most of my coding in BBEdit, and I noticed that the old LSL module was broken in the newer versions of BBEdit & TextWrangler. So I wrote my own

It's free and availble for the rest of my Mac-using Lifers. It's also current as of SL 1.6.0.

http://mohland.com/lsl.html

Enjoy!

-CaptainBarmy

Oh thankyouthankyou! I would have done this myself if I could have found the docs on how to do it. I looked on the BB website but couldn't find them.

I noticed lines 409, 411 and 413 all define the string TRUEFALSE. Is that a bug/type, or something about how the CLMs work?

Olmy,

Nice catch, thanks. I had a bunch of repeating constants in there. Made them all unique, and updated the file on the server.

--Captain Barmy

This is great thank you!

I have a question to which I suspect the answer is no but is it possible to hack the colours so that they appear in the LSL colours (red, blue, green) rather than all blue and pink text?

I've got so used to reading them that way it took me a moment to work out what was going on. I'm sure I'll adjust though.

I had that same thought when writing the module. I don't know of a way to add more colouring like the built-in editor, although it would be nice.

BBEdit's syntax colouring has three basic elements: strings, keywords, and comments. In the LSL module, strings are encapsulated in quotes, comments prefixed by //, and keywords are lsl-defined (functions, constants, etc...).

thank you thank you thank you





jester



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Hmm...

While scripting last night, I used a function that wasn't documented in the scripting guide (llOwnerSay). If you come across any that don't automatically colour, IM me in game and I'll update them in the module. So far I've found:

llBase64ToInteger
llGetSimulatorHostname
llIntegerToBase64
llOwnerSay
llSetSoundRadius
llGodLikeRezObject

[Edit]: Updated & available at the site.

Cheers,
--Captain Barmy

As Captain mentioned, the "codeless" language module only supports three colors; you can change them in Preferences/Text Colors/Source Code.

I am the author of the language module for BBEdit 6 and 7. The module that doesn't know how to do Unicode .... so it does not work in BBEdit 8 (and TextWrangler 2).

If anyone is interested in the source code, you're welcome to it. I tried to follow the instructions for supporting Unicode, but my C programming skills are lacking. I just barely got the module working based on examples from other languages. I used MPW (free download) for building, since all the examples I found used it.

The new Codeless Language Modules are TONS easier to write than the C modules, but do not yet support all the capabilities of C modules. For instance, the C module populates the Function Popup with state and routine names, but the CLM appears unable to discern the routine names.

Although I only used the 3 standard colors, a C module can also highlight using the 6 other colors in Preferences/Text Colors/HTML tags.

Hey Adam,

It's been around 6 years since I've done any serious work in C, but I could try my hand at adding unicode support. The ease of the CLM resulted in it taking under an hour to write

The features available in compiled language modules do sound interesting. I'll IM you in-game about this.

Thankyou CB - I've been hoping someone would do this for a while.

At first my comments had no coloration, but when I look in preferences, all three colors can be changed. Rather bizarre, but the default for comments seemed to be very dark grey.

Change the colors - all is fine.

Great job.