Re: Issues installing Euphoria
- Posted by _tom (admin) Dec 01, 2014
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Thankyou, Mr. Cuny, for your contributions to the Euphoria Archive, it contains some really interesting programs you have written. Also, thankyou for your efforts in trying to improve Euphoria.
Classic ed editor
I'm revising the documentation and have reduced the footprint of ed.ex to simply saying it is a demo program.
I had a plan to wrap a tutorial around it as a programming exercise. Understanding ed.ex requires imagining a computer running at 0.008 GHz using 0.00064 GB of ram while looking at a green screen monitor. I did not spend time on this.
ee.ex editor
I like the ee.ex editor.
I tried to get Euphoria_Linux 2.5 working but got a "Error opening terminal: xterm. " message. Euphoria 3 dropped gpm mouse support making ee.ex less interesting. Another problem under Linux was keypresses are not input properly--but that can be fixed. The good news is that a Linux terminal is UTF-8 so the fancy window details can be rendered easily. No way to change the cursor; no easy way to get underlined text.
Without some kind of mouse support ee.ex doesn't make it as an "official" Euphoria editor--but I feel many would still like to see it revived. I don't understand why Linux mouse support was dropped and how to get it back.
I'm ready to swap ee.ex for ed.ex anytime.
OE4.1
I re-arranged the download page to keep people from downloading the beta version before they have OE4.0 installed.
Windows Installation
My understanding is the Microsoft Windows is very hard to use. More effort should be placed in warning people not to expect much from Windows systems.
I know, I'll have to revise the documentation for this Windows stuff--but I could use some help here.
Geany
Geany is at least multi-platform making it a reasonable starting point for a recommended editor. I'm hopeful that a smoother installation process will make Geany useful. I have not found another multi-platform editor; it doesn't have to be perfect, just a starting point.
GUI
What we need is to get the author of win32 or the author of wxBasic to make a fork of Euphoria with a GUI built-in. But, I can't wish the needed sleepless nights on anyone.
There was a Euphoria 2.5, named Bach, written by K. Boechert that has OOP and the IUP GUI built-in that was really interesting.
Thanks David
_tom
