LiveCode lexer for SynWrite/CudaText

[Alextp]

SynWrite/CudaText editor now has lexer for LiveCode,
it supports most keywords hilites (4 colors of them: keywords, funcs, const, operators).
code folding for if/repeat/switch/try + code blocks (on/command/etc).

How to install in CudaText:

- CudaText needs OS's python.
== For MacOS: install any latest 3.x Python from www_python_org (Cudatext must find it in default folder)
== For Linux: Python already installed, only correct option "pylib__linux" in user.json.
== For Windows: Python shipped with Cudatext
- Plugins menu will be enabled
- call Plugins/ AddonManager/ Install
- in this add-ons dialog, find item "lexer: LiveCode"
- install it

Open any file .livecodescript. Cudatext activates LiveCode lexer on it. Statusbar click can change lexer to LiveCode (if need).

Looks like this

[Klaus]

Hi Alextp,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. For all other Livecoders:
SynWrite is obviously a Windows-only codeeditor, see this website:
http://www.uvviewsoft.com/synwrite/
Cudatext is available for Win, Mac and Linux
http://www.uvviewsoft.com/cudatext/


Best

Klaus

[richmond62]

So I downloaded CudaText for Macintosh,
and downloaded the ZIP file with all the add-ons (none which seemed to be for Livecode:

use AddonManager as usual

Well, for those of us who have never seen CudaText before that "as usual" is
a bit silly, especially as the Plugins/Addon Manager menu appears to be greyed out.

[Alextp]

Ok, here's details, how to install in CudaText:

- CudaText needs OS's python.
== For MacOS: install any latest 3.x Python from www_python_org (Cudatext must find it in default folder)
== For Linux: Python already installed, only correct option "pylib__linux" in user.json.
== For Windows: Python shipped with Cudatext
- Plugins menu will be enabled
- call Plugins/ AddonManager/ Install
- in this add-ons dialog, find item "lexer: LiveCode"
- install it

Now open any file .livecodescript. Cudatext activates LiveCode lexer on it. Statusbar click can change lexer to LiveCode (if need)

[richmond62]

Thank you for putting me right as to Python.

Now open any file .livecodescript

I must be missing something entirely; I cannot find any sort of .livecodescript file
on my machine to save my life; only .livecode files which CudaText open in a
completely unreadable format.

[Alextp]

Hm, interesting... I see syntax for SublimeText3. It has file extent "livecodescript". Only. Which file extensions should lexer have?
github _ com /trevordevore/livecode-sublimetext/blob/master/LiveCode.sublime-syntax

[Klaus]

Only because Richmond does not have a .livecodescript file on his machine
does not mean that this is the wrong file extension for lexer!

@Richmond
Come on, we are obviously talking about TEXT editors here and .livecode files are binary stuff!
So what did you exspect?

Maybe this is something you just don't need?

[richmond62]

Come on

Yes; the whole thing seemed a bit odd . . .

Maybe this is something you just don't need?

No: I don't, but people don't have to climb Mount Everest either.

I have only rarely used anything other than the LiveCode built-in scriptEditor: I copy-pasted very long scripts into
Mac PPC's "AppleWorks" at one time as I found that it's search-and-replace worked rather better at the time (LiveCode/Revolution 2.0).

So, @Klaus, Please "put me out of my misery" and explain how, for the sake of argument,
I might go about working with a .livecodescript document.

[Klaus]

Hi Richmond,

I, too, do not have the need for any external script editor.

Please "put me out of my misery"

Since version 8 (?) we can have SCRIPT only stacks, which are in fact simple text files with the extension .livecodescript.
Check the content of folder "Tools/Toolset/..." in your Liveocde folder, there you will find MANY examples of this new kind of stack/script file.


Best

Klaus

[richmond62]

Since version 8

You know me: stuck in a Retro time-machine

Tools/Toolset/libraries . . . Oh, Yes :/

[Alextp]

@Richmond
text not hilited, reason: lexer not installed? Click on statusbar "(none)", lexer list shows, no LiveCode in list?