Re: Issues installing Euphoria
- Posted by dcuny Nov 30, 2014
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I don't know why it seems impossible to get rid of ed.ex.
You and me both.
Even if by some miracle we had an editor that would do all of this, someone would complain that it wasn't written 100% in Eu.
That flamewar is never going away. But I just want something that works well out of the box, and doesn't require any hassle to install.
ed could probably be turned into a decent editor, if only some of the basic stuff wasn't broken. Here's whats at the top of my list:
- Shift+Arrow key selection doesn't work.
- Cut and paste doesn't work. Or if it does, it uses different key bindings.
- Save closes.
- find is clunky.
- Pressing the wrong key gets you stuck up at the command line
Some of these are simple to change; others (like text selection) would require some serious reworking of ed.
Adding stuff like intellisense would be nice, but that basically requires writing a parser that can dynamically read the file you're editing. Handling legal code such as:
atom a=sin(12)+10 , b
is a bit tricky. And the scanner has to be able to recover from typos, or it won't be very useful.
And that wouldn't satisfy the people who want to type "make a game" and have a running program.
But this is even more basic than that. You don't need all the bells and whistles of an IDE - but there should be at least one editor on the Euphoria editor list that's easy to install and works. I didn't try them all, but every one that I did try was broken.
That's seriously messed up.
