Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

[Mike Bonner]

You did the obvious, and restarted LC after placing the plugin right?  If
you didn't restart lc, and you don't want to, an easy way to force a
re-read of the plugins folder is to go into the plugin settings.  You don't
have to do anything, just going to the settings dialog forced the re-read.



On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 08/27/2015 09:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Kay C Lan wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:03 AM, RunRevPlanet wrote:
>> >
>> >> None of my comments are from the perspective that enabling LiveCode
>> >> to use an external editor is a bad thing.
>> >
>> > So we agree then. As Richard said, choice is a good thing.
>> >
>> >> More that for a cross platform IDE, written in it's supported
>> >> language, to have an inadequate text editor is a very bad look
>> >
>> > Again, we agree.
>> >
>> >> and turns programmers away.
>> >
>> > Only if they don't have a choice to use something better.
>>
>> Choice is useful only so long as it's a choice, rather than a requirement.
>>
>> It would hardly be an INTEGRATED development environment if it didn't
>> have a script editor.
>>
>> Moreover, a script editor is a very good example of the sort of thing
>> LiveCode can do very well.
>>
>> And best of all, AFAIK no one in the company is thinking about shipping
>> LC without a script editor.
>>
>> Given all this, making the current script editor robust and performant
>> would logically seem among the highest priorities, since a good SE makes
>> the product a joy to use and a poor SE makes LC look bad.  In short, the
>> choice is to either make more money or less, to the degree that the SE is
>> solid and enjoyable.  After all, it's the one part of the IDE everyone uses
>> most often.
>>
>> Along the way, reinstating an updated version of MetaCard's support for
>> external editors would be useful AS AN OPTION, and probably something the
>> community could deliver.
>>
>> To make the latter work well we'll want formatting and colorization
>> plugins for as many third party editors as we can make them for - again,
>> best done by the community since each of us has our own favorite so each of
>> us may be motivated to write a LiveCode add-on for it.
>>
>> This page at Ken Ray's site discusses how external editors can be used in
>> LC, with links to various LC-specific modules (though some of these may
>> need to be updated):
>> <http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm>
>>
>>
> Well: I've just downloaded the stsMLXEditor and placed it in the
> /livecodecommunity-7.0.6 (x86_64)/Plugins/ folder and it does
> not show up in /Development/Plugins in the 7.0.6 menu . . .
>
> Richmond.
>
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