Re: Edita Bugs/Features
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Nov 07, 2005
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Pete Lomax wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:44:42 -0500, Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com> > wrote: > > >I must say, I've been using Edita daily since its release and I think > >its great. I have a few bugs to point out and some features to > >request: > > > >Bugs: > > - When opening a file, the Open file dialog will come up 10 more > >times. I have this problem also. I just keep hitting cancel until it goes away. I have found this only happens when using the Toolbar Icon and not with the File menu\Open. I'm using Window 2000 and Euphoria 2.5. I hope this helps narrow it down. >I just hit Escape each time and the file from the first > >selection opens. This is really annoying. > Thanks. I used to get this maybe once a month but I figured it was > something wrong with my setup since it stopped when I rebooted. > I've tracked it down now and posted a new version (0.2.5). I/ll try downloading it mine is 2.4. I thought I just downloaded it. > > - I get an error when trying to run programs through ex.exe. > >eacons.exw is obviously crashing. Here is the error: > > > > C:\EUPHORIA\Edita\eacons.exw:164 > > a name is expected here > > procedure ErrorExit(sequence errmsg) > There was a spurious comma in that file from somewhere. > > > >Features: > > - I love the code folding, however, I'd like to see if blocks only > >collapsing to the next elsif. > Done. It will fold more if the elsif/else is on the very next line, > and still folds all branches of an if statement if the cursor is on > the "end if" line. > > - Another code folding feature that would be nice is [ + ] and [ - > >] buttons to the left of each foldable block. > Instead of that I've just detected mouse clicks on the fold margin > and added a new flag to edita.ini, "Permanent Fold Margin", > default False, so that there is always somewhere to click on. > ( You'll have to run 0.2.5 and quit before amending edita.ini. ) > > I don't think there is a problem with the fact that I have used > > rather than + to indicate folds which can be expanded (I chose that > because it is more visually distinct to * which I use for bookmarks). > I also don't think '-' is a good idea since Edita can fold any set of > lines (just block select them before pressing Ctrl -); I once > estimated that win32lib with 34,000 lines could theoretically be > folded over 600 million different ways > > <a > href="http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edita.htm#download">http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edita.htm#download</a> > > Regards, > Pete > > One other thing I think in the Option\colors options it would be alot clearer if you had picutes of the little Braces rather than Brace1 .Brace2,etc.. Don Cole A Bug is an un-documented feature. A Feature is a documented Bug.