Re: wxIDE & EuHTHelp.exw
Pete Lomax wrote:
>
> On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:43:04 -0800, Kenneth Rhodes
> <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
>
> >I appreciate your patience, Pete. Please help me understand -
> OK, let me explain where I'm coming from.
> The other day I typed in "getFileExtension" and pressed F1.
> This showed me "D:\Edita\eamisc.e" and the text:
> "global function getFileExtension(sequence name)"
> and allowed "&Examine Code" to jump straight to the definition, which
> I did, (because I wanted to confirm that it performed a lower() on the
> result).
>
> If I type eg "open", and press F1, it shows me "Euphoria Builtin", the
> text "global procedure open(sequence filename, sequence mode)"
> and allows "R&eference Manual" to open %EUDIR%/html/lib_h_o.htm#open.
Excellent - I'm just waiting on the Liux port, Pete! 
> I have seen JL's code and it is quite nice, but I /really/ don't know
> what to do with it. For instance it does not lookup "open",
> "pretty_print", etc.
If by "JL's code" you mean Juergen's EuHTHelp.exw, your simply mistaken -
EuHTHelp.exw has absolutely no problem with "open" or "pretty_print"
or every other keyword that I have tested it with. Its a great utility,
which easily provides a great deal of functional "help" to a number of 3rd
party editors. And its public domain - we can benefit from it, play with it,
learn from it, without having to worry about thorny license issues.
> Besides, is there really anything that is really
> appropriate to F1 lookup when editing Eu code in Edita? What exactly
> needs adding to Edita, in a way which does not remove any existing
> functionality? That is the question, afaict not being answered by
> anybody.
You have done a much better job in this post of describing the
capabilities of Edita - but also, much of earlier arguements in
this thread was answering statements such as this:
>I am also unaware how one might invoke a help file, with a
> specific topic...
and
>Now if someone wants to ship me an updated file with
> the source mods to Edita, OR BETTER YE A HOW-TO...
(my emphasis)
> This thread started with don cole wanting .hlp or .chm rather
> than .htm lookup. I only meant you were wrong about being able to
> invoke a .hlp or .chm file via system_exec /and/ pass it a keyword.
>Here's what I said:
>Bottom Line - Elaborate context sensitive help, in either text of hypertext
>format, can easily be implemented in any text editor - at least for the
>official RDS
>Euphoria language.
>But the real trick is to provide that type of elaborate contest sensitive
>help for any third party library included in the file being edited.
I don't even know what a .hlp file is. I implemented
context sensitive help search using the Euhoria *.doc files -
simply opened the library doc and passed the keyword to ed.ex's
builtin search routines. In most cases - help was instantaneous, if
nothing was found in the Library or Refman docs I passed the keyword to
guru.ex and loaded the guru.out file into an ed.ex window "pane".
And I started using keywords to access specific articles in *.htm
files a year ago. I've never had any sucess under Linux in passing
a search string to a chm file - and none of my posts for the last month
references "chm".
Here's Don's original post:
Where can I find information on the use of the dollar sign [$]?
I can't seem to find anything about it in any of the Euphoria Help files.
>
And here's your response:
> Take a look at refman, section 2.2.5, "Subscripting sequences," and
> 2.2.6, "Slicing sequences."
>
Matt Lewis
> Regards,
> Pete
> PS I'll find it in time, but if anyone can remember the name of the
> RDS doc search program, that's something else I need to investigate.
> (I've already got a copy of it here somewhere, whatever it's called.)
>
Do you mean guru.ex? Thats basically what the RDS web search code is,
I think... here's a link to the source code for the web search:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/guru_web.txt
Its been an interesting thread - I'm tired!
Pete, when your ready for someone to beta test you wxEU port
of edita, just send it on!
Regards,
Ken Rhodes
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