Re: Edita Wish list - was: Searching Docs - was: the Dollar Sign [$]
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:03:27 -0800, Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
>My dream was to implement some type of "universal context sensitive help"
>system whereby once a library was included in the file being edited,
>efficient context sensitive help would be automatically available.
That is exactly what Edita does. When you start Edita, there is a
little man in a red triangle, working away. When the triangle turns
grey (which it does quicker next time you load), it knows all about
the includes and all the globals defined in them. It goes red again
for a while, each time you save the file. Let me know if there
is something I have completely missed on this part.
>It is my opinion that Edita has become the premier Euphoria programming editor.
>
>Ironically, I don't use it because I run only Linux. The bottom line is that
>I believe Edita has the clout to establish a defacto standard as far as context
>
>sensitive help and documentation is concerned. Are you interested?
>
>Lastly, I have asked Matt Lewis to consider porting Edita to WxEuphoria.
>I would certainly love to see Edita on WxEuphoria because I think it would
>be very good for the Euphoria community in general to have a full featured,
>cross platform, GUI Editor written in Euphoria.
>Matt has expressed some interest, but is concerned about Edita's license.
>Would you be willing to work with Matt on an Edita port to WxEuphoria?
Yes, there is a slight problem in that Edita should be shipped with a
couple of optional/"original" components (Report Generator and Window
Painter). I would be happy to work with you if you agree to help me on
the optional parts (working under NDA) and the bulk of the rest, open
source, is your responsibility.
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:26:41 +0000, Lynn Kilroy wrote:
>We see a Run menu in the top of the program editor window.
In Edita it is Tools/Run (F5)
>we select the Help {Yes! Help!} menu in QBasic.Exe.
There is a Help menu in Edita, and F1 context help.
It may not be as pretty as QBasic.Hlp, though, see below.
>but, get this, it also PARSED your programs!
Edita does too, though it only looks for globals.
>, and parsing means you don't end up with a
>screen cluttered with all kinds of code from dozens of other subroutines on
>your computer screen.
?Any chance of a screen shot showing exactly what you mean here?
(Never used QBasic)
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:02:22 -0800, don cole wrote:
>This could be easly done if Pete would put the Euphoria Reference in the
>Edita help Menu.
>I'm not tal;king about the HTML (which is good and should stay there)
>but the help file with Contents,Index,and Find tabs.
>It listed in Mike's Editor Help Menu as Euphoria Refference.
<I thought you might have meant that one.>
The ELR.hlp file shipped with that is now nearly seven years old!
If only has the second half of refman in it, and misses out things
such as chdir, crash_file, crash_routine, define_c_var, flush,
(un)lock_file, pretty_print, sleep, and probably a few more...
Unable as I am to find or build a new one, I think I have to flatly
refuse. I am also unaware how one might invoke a help file, with a
specific topic. Now if someone wants to ship me an updated file with
the source mods to Edita, or better yet a how-to...
Regards,
Pete
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