Daft "text Editor" question

[Richard Gaskin]

RM wrote:

 > Does anyone know of a word-processing type program that can open .rev
 > and .livecode files so that one can see ALL the scripts of ALL the
 > objects in one long document?
 >
 > This may sound a bit daft, but I am considering "refactoring" the
 > code-base for my Devawriter Pro from pre version 7 to post version 7,
 > and this will involve very many changes in about 4 million lines of
 > code, and, farnkly, I should like to automate that process as much
 > as possible.

Personally, I find the context of scripts so informative that I tend to 
use the Project Browser for things like that.  With the PB I can get to 
any script very quickly, but unlike one big text file I also get to know 
where the script came from.

But if viewing the scripts out of context is preferred, my go-to 
solution for that is LiveCode:  just make a simple stack with one field, 
and a button that lets me select any file and put its contents into the 
field.   And since you're using LC you could also strip out any 
non-ASCII parts, possibly worth the modest effort in allowing you to 
have a clean listing.

Another option with LC would be to write a script that worms through the 
project and writes all of the scripts to a text file.  There are many 
such tools in the community, and the benefit there is that most of them 
also include at least the object name the script came from so you'll 
have some idea of the original context of the script.

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  Richard Gaskin
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