OpenEuphoria

wxEditor suggestions

• Posted by Kenneth Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at y?h?o.com> May 21, 2008
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Hi Greg,

I thought I'd make some comments and suggestions regarding your
wxEditor project. I realize my comments might be naive, but I
useless comments can be easily ignored and perhaps something
will be useful. This is kind of a wish list:

1. Color Syntax / Context sensitive help.
please consider my previous post regarding a stand alone small
utility program to generate syntax files which can also be used
for context sensitive help:
http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m21406.html

If your editor uses an external syntax file such as ed.ex's keyword.e,
then only the external file needs to be updated as Euphoria grows.

An external utility program which generates syntax files might also
be used to provide syntax/context sensitive help for 3rd party
libraries.

Consider Jueren Luethje's  euhthelp code:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/euhthelp_1.3.tar

2. Please consider using a function hotkey, such as F11, 
for context sensitive help.

3. Easy access to Utility programs such as lines.ex, guru.ex, search.ex, 
where.ex, tidy.ex, etc. via menus and hotkeys without
having to shell out to the console or terminal editor - for example:
guru.ex can be used as an extended context sensitive help for current
"words" which are not specifically supported in syntax/context sensitive
help files. The guru.out file can be automatically opened in a new window.


I appreciate your efforts in developing wxEditor.


Ken Rhodes
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