ANN: GLX2 update

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Fri Feb 10 22:51:58 EST 2012


All-

I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.0.10 of the open-source
GLX2 script editor. It's had a bunch of bug fixes, more refactoring
than I can keep track of, a couple of new features, and online
documentation in progress. I'm especially happy about the new outline
feature because it's something I've been wanting for quite a while:

Outlines:

Ever been editing some code and ended up with an if statement that
went on for pages? Or a repeat loop that you had trouble finding the
end to because it was way down there and had some other nested stuff
inside? Or found and end if statement and couldn’t remember what the
if clause said because it was so long ago and was scrolled off the
page already?

Now you can click on an if and press command-shift-O for (Outline) and
highlight all the text up to the matching end if. Or click on an end
if and highlight all the text backwards to the matching if. You can do
that with for structures as well. And repeat loops. And switch
statements. Type command-shift-O again to remove the highlighting.

Matching Parentheses:

Sometimes it’s hard to match up the left parenthesis with the right.
Your eyes get blurry after staring at the screen for hours and you’re
not sure whether you’re three levels in or four. And it’s worse if the
code is broken up over several lines. Right-click either a left- or a
right- parenthesis and you will highlight the text up to the matching
right- or left-parenthesis.

Documentation at http://glx2.ahsoftware.net
Download GLX2 from http://bitbucket.org/mwieder/glx2/downloads

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net





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