OpenEuphoria

1. Regarding Euphoria Editors...

• Posted by K_D_R Apr 16, 2014
• 1759 views

Hello All,

"ed.ex>edx.ex>mdx.ex": Over a week ago, I posted,"mdx.ex", ( the editor formerly known as "edx.ex" ) my latest modified version of "ed.ex" to http://rapideuphoria.com/index.html. I had to a bit of editing to the Euphoria 4.1 versions of syncolor.e and tokenizer.e in order to support features that I have been using in the editor for several years.

I suspect that the developers consider "supporting" ed.ex more trouble than it is worth. I really don't think more than a handful of programmers are using it, or even a modified version of it. So, I am not complaining about the proposed intent to move "ed.ex" to /euphoria/demo/edx.ex.

Please post a brief reply, if you are using ed.ex in any form.

I think several of the wx editor's slick features could be implemented in ed.ex/edx.ex -certainly projects and auto-complete of all commands in the current and all other open files, but it will probably take a better programmer than I. Even with expanded features by a first rate euphoria programmer, I don't think a console editor is going to attract very many users.

3. Re: Regarding Euphoria Editors...

• Posted by _tom (admin) Apr 17, 2014
• 1799 views

I am still sorry about stealing the name "edx.ex" from Ken Rhodes. _tom

Thank you for sharing your changes to "ed.ex"

I had this problem in running mdx.ex:

* ! Db help open new quit save write tidy eui dos find replace backup keys More  
/media/oe/500B/Euphoria-Documenting/mdx/mdx-1.0/mdx.ex:1738 in function key_gets 
attempt to move cursor off the screen to line 1, column 81   

It is probably best to view K_D_R as the main support for edx.ex.

I see edx.ex remaining in /euphoria/bin; if we have an editor it should be available for immediate use.

The problem is in presenting edx.ex as an "official" Euphoria editor. I have changed the documentation to read:

I still sometimes use edx.ex to test simple example programs. I do not use it to edit programs; I use Geany instead.

I used Kate previously, but I don't like sluggish KDE Linux distributions.

I tried to get wxWidgets to work but failed under Linux.

If I have to locate dependencies and compile wxWidgets then it will not happen.

vi, vim, emacs are all overpowering.

Geany windows is an 8.7MB download. It installs easily. This is probably the closest we can come to a multi-platform editor that supports Euphoria.

An easy way to get wxWidgets working under Ubuntu/Mint is needed. When a package is difficult to install then that is the same as "not working."

Sadly, any emphasis that the official Euphoria editor is a "console editor" will work against attracting users; it is better that there is no official editor.

Windows is hard to use. Windows 8 is making things even less friendly. I am not smart enough to help Windows users. [Optional humour for the day...]

_tom

5. Re: Regarding Euphoria Editors...

• Posted by jaygade Apr 17, 2014
• 1579 views

Vim is amazing.

I don't know anything about Shian Lee's support files though; I use Jeremy's vim files from the source distribution.

Is there a set of vim bindings which I'm not aware of? I'll have to check them out.

7. Re: Regarding Euphoria Editors...

• Posted by K_D_R Apr 18, 2014
• 1552 views

I appreciate all the responses to my post....

* ! Db help open new quit save write tidy eui dos find replace backup keys More  
/media/oe/500B/Euphoria-Documenting/mdx/mdx-1.0/mdx.ex:1738 in function key_gets 
attempt to move cursor off the screen to line 1, column 81   

Sorry bout that - I have a fairly wide monitor and run my linux terminal with a screen width of 110. I'll probably just post a note that mdx.ex should be run in a terminal/console with a width of at least 95-100 columns. I suppose it wouldn't be too much trouble to display select extra menu items according to available screen width. On the other hand, I could make all those extra functions available from a scrollable top line pick list. So many solutions, so little time.

Then I strongly urge the developers to ditch ed.ex/edx.ex and devote sometime into providing native support for Geany. Or at least supporting Geany by improving and maintaining Geany support files written in Euphoria like "gneui" and "EuHelp".

I think I'll start another thread about "EuHelp".

Ken Rhodes

9. Re: Regarding Euphoria Editors...

• Posted by petelomax Apr 19, 2014
• 1469 views

Hmm. I have no idea what is wrong with OE4.1, but Edita ships with tested copies of Phix (p.exe) and RDS Eu 2.4 (exw.exe), either of which should run it just fine. If you open a command prompt in the installation directory and run "p -c edita" or "p -c -norun edita" it should build edita.exe in a matter of seconds, which is another alternative.

I'll give OE4.1 another go here. I suspect it is a builtins\machine.e vs. std\memory.e thing (which will no doubt mean I cannot have a single source that runs on both Eu2.4 and OE4.1), just don't hold your breath.

Pete