Please recommend a text editor

[Simon Knight]

I've no objection to the built in script editor (except when it bangs 
out during debug) especially as I have just re-discovered that if I cut 
and paste from it I get coloured text.  However, I want to create a 
document that compares Livecode script with VBA code and if I do a cut 
and paste from the VBA editor I get plain text.  I now realise that I 
can put the VBA through textwrangler and into a Wp such as Bean with any 
Livecode being inserted with a straight cut and paste.

Ah! Appleworks 6.  Now it comes from a time when Apple were hungry and 
software had to work whereas today it just has to look good - but please 
don't get me started.

As to  'if I want to do script editing in VBA"- well I don't really its 
just that have to ;-)

best wishes

Simon

On 04/04/2015 12:03, Richmond wrote:
> On 04/04/15 13:18, Simon Knight wrote:
>> Richmond,
>>
>> Many thanks - I will give textwrangler a try, I have used it as a 
>> plain text editor but never really dug deep: I have down loaded the 
>> "Revolution" add-in that you pointed me to and may have a try at 
>> creating my own.  The one thing I have not been able to do is to 
>> directly export coloured text to a word processor.  The Textwrangler 
>> export option remains grayed out but I can get the text by printing 
>> to preview and copy and paste from there.
>>
>> best wishes
>>
>> Simon
>>
>
> I'm not entirely sure what your objection to the built-in script 
> editor is; as a syntax coloured external editor is much the same sort 
> of thing.
>
> However, having said that, I tend to use Appleworks 6 on my G5 iMac 
> running Mac OS 10.5 for editing large scripts where I need to
> perform bulk search-and-replace operations.
>
> Appleworks does not offer syntax colouring, but I use it mainly by 
> doing a copy-paste of an already finished script to modify it via
> search-and-replace rather than programming per se.
>
> If you want to do script-editing like Visual Basic (i.e. one long list 
> rather than lots of little lists in each object) then I suppose your 
> question begins
> to make sense; the only real problem is at that point you lose the 
> WYSIWYG aspect that is so powerful in LiveCode.
>
> Richmond.
>
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