Us and them? [was Re: Livecode Dictionary]

[Curry Kenworthy]

Richard:

 > 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.

It's interesting when we take a comment out of context and spin it in 
another direction by treating it as a different request or problem! :)

Neither this thread nor my own message was primarily about the SE. 
Feedback (including my own) was requested on a plan for a project wiki 
... located where? Yep, you guessed it - in the LiveCode Script Editor.

My feedback was to keep any addition simple and watch performance, 
because there are some issues and (as you quoted me) the primary feature 
of Script Editor is code editing; that is its priority.

The wiki sounds like a neat project. Simplicity helps, and whether to 
locate it in the SE is a consideration. Besides performance, another 
issue is that the original proposal here was adding user comments back 
to the Dictionary.

A project wiki would fit in the SE better than it would the Dictionary, 
of course, it would have more features and I could see that being a tab. 
But then again user keyword comments would fit the Dictionary very well, 
they could simply be added there. Having a separate LC window for a 
project wiki is another approach. I would say the tab would be handier 
and more integrated into workflow, but the separate window might be good 
for performance and memory.

I mentioned the SE relative to its inclusion in the wiki plan, so just 
clarifying (ahem) that SE alternatives aren't directly related to or a 
response to my own quoted comment. Ah, the wonders of context!

Nice thoughts though. Some people like to downplay IDE issues, perhaps 
in order to focus all possible resources on certain engine issues. 
That's fine, as are alternatives, but personally I like to see LC 
looking good out of the box too, so I believe both are important and I 
prefer to use and help improve the official SE. Many things I like about 
the SE. (A good, but different, topic!) Thanks Richard.

Best wishes,

Curry Kenworthy

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