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any other editors?

speel Levy
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Join date: 18 Jun 2004
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09-11-2004 17:40
hey ive been looking for a good editor and i found scite and i was wondering if any one knows another good LSL editor?
Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
09-11-2004 19:19
http://www.badgeometry.com/wiki/AlternativeEditors

I use SciTE-ez
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Rysidian Rubio
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Join date: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 263
09-12-2004 19:40
No offense but why would you want anything better? Or rather what could a better editor have that's not in Scite-ez? Maybe if you list a few features that you are looking for someone might be able to point you towards something.
Samhain Broom
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Join date: 1 Aug 2004
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09-13-2004 13:11
Are you all using this from INSIDE SL or using something outside, then copy/pasting into the game?

I actually prefer Lemmy for my editing which is a version of vi. I suppose I could get used to VIM, but just have not ventured from something that I like and am easily able to use. (yeah yeah, it's one of those "paradigm shifts" and I can't seem to get my foot on the clutch!)...
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Rysidian Rubio
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09-13-2004 21:11
These are external editors, and I have to say that after using SCITE-ez I can't script ingame anymore, it just seems too sloooow. Even for minor script changes I usually keep Scite open and copy/paste continously, hehe.
Strife Onizuka
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Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
09-13-2004 21:32
I've been using SCITE-ez for multi script projects. Keeping track of 10->20 constants and making sure a set of functions all match between functions is tedious but not so with the ESL hack.
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey
Rysidian Rubio
Ruby Red Head
Join date: 14 Jan 2004
Posts: 263
09-13-2004 23:18
ESL hack?
Care to explain that one Strife? Sounds interesting.....

NM I remembered there is a forum search function after all..
Strife Onizuka
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Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
09-14-2004 07:21
The idea is simple: Use the MS C++ precompiler to handle just precompiler commands. So you pass your script first through the precompiler then take the output (stip extra vertical lines) and write it to file. (this lets you use #include && #define and some other precompiler constants)

see here for current version:
/54/c4/18335/1.html

background info on ESL:
/54/cd/18987/1.html
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey
Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
09-14-2004 07:26
I use SciTe quite extensively and it is teh shiznat! Gotta love Ezhar.
As for vi, well, vi is EviL. Try doing that with some other editor. It dont work :)
Samhain Broom
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Join date: 1 Aug 2004
Posts: 298
09-14-2004 10:38
The thing about vi is that I've done it for so long, and used it for everything I have ever done at work that now it's a little like changing to write things in Spanish. I COULD translate everything, but I am more comfortable writing in English even though most people who speak both or many languages will probably say that Spanish is easier.

I have not ever seen Scite-ez and if I gave myself some time with it, I bet I would like it.

Once you get to know something, even the most EVIL of things, you start to become that! (just Call me Evil Sam) =)
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Samhain Broom
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09-17-2004 12:02
I'm trying the SciTE editor. I like it, but there are a lot of things to get used to. There are some really nice features too. Too bad it's not the built in editor for LSL IW. Even though I still like my "vi", I have to say that I like the feature where you can do F1 on a command and get a "wiki" like page to help you with the code, and ever copy some of the code into your code.

Good call on the SciTE!!
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Samhain Broom
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09-27-2004 09:32
When using SciTE-ez does anyone find that the "Save-as" is very slow?
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Strife Onizuka
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09-27-2004 12:33
I never use Save As...

I have bad clicking habits and will miss the Save As and end up on Save. And i'm in the habit of just taking a copy of the file if i want a backup (and zipping it).
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey
Samhain Broom
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Posts: 298
09-27-2004 19:53
You never make new versions? Woof... I wonder what the cuss factor is behind that one sometimes? haha
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Kermitt Quirk
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09-28-2004 19:39
FYI... I use UltraEdit whenever I'm working on a large complex script, or just have a large amount of coding without the need to keep doing test runs. But if I'm just doing a lot of testing (i.e. trying out various parameters of a particular function) I just edit directly in SL.

Here's a link to the UltraEdit site...
http://www.idmcomp.com/index.html

Of course this is still external with copy/paste back to SL. The main reason I use it is simply because it's been my text editor of choice for quite a while. One bonus feature it has is the ability to set up syntax highlighting for any languge you want. I've done this for LSL (although I think I'm still missing a few constants).
I could tidy up my syntax file and put it somewhere for distribution if anyone is interested in going down this path.
Samhain Broom
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09-29-2004 09:00
You're the second person that has mentioned this editor to me. Perhaps I shoul test it. I may try it when I get home.
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John Sojourner
Junior Member
Join date: 25 Sep 2004
Posts: 2
10-02-2004 20:01
Hi,

I've written a program to copy text from a file to the clipboard. This can replace the "start Notepad and copy all the text" stage in the "extended SciTE toolchain" (/54/cd/18987/1.html#post228731).

The program lives here: http://johnp.net/cbop/

Cheers,

John