How do you work with an external editor?

[Richmond]

On 09/16/2015 11:35 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from time to time I read here about using external editors (with LC 6.x).
>
> I am completely missing how the workflow looks like with an external editor,
> which is not integrated into the IDE. No instant testing, no debugging, etc.
> Do you really copy and paste the code vice versa for testing? Am I something
> missing on how to integrate ext. editors or what sense does it make?
>
> Tiemo
>
>   
>

Well, my limited experience has involved copy-paste into Appleworks 6
on a PPC Macintosh (where I do all my commercial programming) just because
I can see the code in a full-screen [think G5 iMac with a monster-size 
monitor]
without all the usual LiveCode 'furniture' in the way.

Obviously that is a very simplistic way of doing things, and Appleworks 
is quite
unable to automatically colourise the script being edited within it.

What I understand from what is going on on the Use-List is that there 
are several
ways to 'magically' flip scripts in-and-out of LiveCode and into an 
external scriptEditor
that has a 'module', 'plug-in', 'what-have-you' that colourises the code 
in accordance
with the LiveCode built-in scriptEditor colourising convention.

The ONLY advantage I have found was when editing a script that contained 
some 6,000
lines of repetitive sections that didn't really need debugging.

Otherwise I stick with the built-in scriptEditor as it does all that I 
require. Part of the reason
that the scriptEditor does all that I require, however, maybe the simple 
fact that I have not
used any other programming environment for at least 12 years so I am 
completely out of touch
with script editing facilities in other programming environments.

Richmond.