Us and them? [was Re: Livecode Dictionary]

[Richard Gaskin]

Curry Kenworthy wrote:

 > What people need most in the Script Editor is to view and edit the
 > code itself smoothly, without jitters or delays

Not hard to make one.  A frontScript trapping the editScript message 
lets you do whatever you want.

You can make a stack with a field and a Save button for the simplest 
form as a starting point.

Or clone MC IDE's SE as a starting point.

I used to maintain my own SE for many years, until the big Waddingham 
overhaul that became the foundation for what we use now.  I'm happy 
enough with the current SE that I stopped work on custom ones, but 
they're not hard to make for basic editing; the tough part is adding 
features without impairing performance, a valuable exercise.

And then there are the countless third-party text editors, some of which 
have LC-specific add-ons crafted by our community for them, like 
Trevor's plugin for Atom.  I've been using Atom enough in web 
development that I'm considering using it with LC.  It's very nice.

And of course LC's SE is fully open.  Anyone can fork it, improve it, 
share it with anyone, and even submit the improvements back to the core 
team for inclusion in the master build.

So many solutions so widely available....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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