Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed Aug 26 22:37:33 EDT 2015


So has anyone looked at dp3 to see if the script editor is strapped, yet,
or are we still a ways off from that?  Once it's more workable (because you
oughta try working on that code, now.  Ugh), hopefully we can all make it
better.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:03 PM, RunRevPlanet <feed at smpcsupport.com> wrote:

> Kay C Lan said:
>
>  > let's dream and say LiveCode allowed
>  > you to use Geany as it's Script
>  > Editior. This would be a bad thing
>  > because?
>
> None of my comments are from the perspective that enabling LiveCode to use
> an
> external editor is a bad thing.
>
> More that for a cross platform IDE, written in it's supported language, to
> have
> an inadequate text editor (in the context of not having an editor plugin
> feature
> as standard) is a very bad look and turns programmers away.
>
> The impression that I prefer the existing Script Editor to be improved,
> instead
> of integrating another editor, is simply because I suspect fixing the
> current
> editor will be *quicker* than integrating an external editor.
>
> I have no hard facts on how long either process would take to do, it is
> only a
> suspicion.
> --
> Scott McDonald
> "Components, Controls, Tools and Resources for LiveCode"
> www.runrevplanet.com
>
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