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Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:10 pm
by ghettocottage
To date, I have been using gEdit as my text-editor. It has enough plugins to get me by, and I was even able to put together a Livecode language file so it would highlight my <?lc tags and such.
I have tried many other editors, including brackets, sublime, geany, bluefish, etc. but gEdit has a nice feature where the side-bar shows my sFTP folders I have bookmarked in my file-browser (nautilus).
This past week I started playing with atom editor:
atom.io
I feel like a first-class nerd for getting excited about a text-editor, but:
-it is easy to edit the appearence, since it is based on css and html
-it has some really cool add-ons
-it is open-source
-it works great in Ubuntu
-it looks great in Ubuntu
-it lets me open a book-marked sFTP folder, and then keeps that folder as "project" folder
I am loving it. Now I need to write another language file for Livecode server files...
Anyone else using atom?
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:18 pm
by wsamples
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:28 pm
by ghettocottage
It looks like that is specifically for editing .lcb files rather than .rev or .lc files, which is what I am after:
Currently, this package supports editing LiveCode Builder source code in .lcb files. It provides syntax highlighting and indentation support.
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:32 pm
by zaxos
interesting post, i'l certainly give atom a try, is it possible to edit a .livecode file outside of the IDE? how is it handling images and files in it? or have i completely misunderstood?
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:41 pm
by ghettocottage
zaxos wrote:interesting post, i'l certainly give atom a try, is it possible to edit a .livecode file outside of the IDE? how is it handling images and files in it? or have i completely misunderstood?
I am talking about editing Livecode server files, which are just text files much like .php
Might look like this:
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<?lc
--grab the statement
put $_GET["quote"] into tQuote
put the version into tVersion
if tQuote is not empty
then put "The server version " & tVersion & tQuote
else
--end check else do something else
--else start the revigniter stuff
global gEXT, gFCPATH, gSELF, gBASEPATH, gAPPPATH, gErrorData, gDatabaseID, gDocTypes, gAdvancedUnicode
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:46 pm
by zaxos
Ohh, i see now.
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:52 pm
by wsamples
It looks like that is specifically for editing .lcb files rather than .rev or .lc files
I hadn't noticed that
Sorry! You might search or ask on the use-livecode mailing list. This has been asked more than once there. There seems to be a TextMate bundle available from the revigniter project for .lc files. Atom has a process you might be able to use to convert this TextMate bundle to an Atom package.
converting-a-text-mate-bundle
Search the use-livecode mailist for a thread from September 2014 with subject "Re: Is someone using Coda 2 with syntax highlighting for livecode server scripts?"
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:39 pm
by ghettocottage
wsamples wrote:
I hadn't noticed that
Sorry! You might search or ask on the use-livecode mailing list. This has been asked more than once there. There seems to be a TextMate bundle available from the revigniter project for .lc files. Atom has a process you might be able to use to convert this TextMate bundle to an Atom package.
converting-a-text-mate-bundle
Search the use-livecode mailist for a thread from September 2014 with subject "Re: Is someone using Coda 2 with syntax highlighting for livecode server scripts?"
I am not adverse to cobbling a language file together for atom. I will work on on this evening and put it in github
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:01 am
by ghettocottage
Done!
I used the TextMate bundle available on the
revIgniter website and converted it for atom, then pushed it to the atom packages. You can now install it directly from atom under Preferences>Install
i Love it!!
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:06 am
by wsamples
That's fantastic! Do you subscribe to the mailing list? I'm sure there are people on the list who will be happy to learn about this! Thank you for sharing!
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:57 pm
by ghettocottage
wsamples wrote:That's fantastic! Do you subscribe to the mailing list? I'm sure there are people on the list who will be happy to learn about this! Thank you for sharing!
I am not on the mailing list. Honestly I never quite got into email lists. I was on one once back when I was first learning Linux and joined a LUG, but all those emails..ug. Forums are much nicer for me.
At any rate, I contacted the people at revIgniter and let them know I added that to atom. A guy named Ralf emailed back and had a look at it, and found some missing things, so I just ran an update. The updates can be run from atom.
I really like how easy it was to create the package and push it to atom. Adding the update was also a breeze.
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 8:07 pm
by wsamples
I have taken the liberty of making this known to the mailing list. Thanks again for sharing your work!
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:17 am
by ghettocottage
Just an update on the atom/livecode language package: I unpublished my package and merged it with peters livecode package to avoid having two livecode packages for different things.
Just install peters (atom-language-livecode), and run updates and you should be good. It will now include:
livecode source editing language
revIgniter snippets
livecode server language
Re: Atom Editor
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 9:56 am
by peter-b
Sorry for the delay -- I've only just published the version of "language-livecode" with LiveCode Server support!
Make sure that you've got "language-livecode" installed and that the version is 0.5.0 or later.
I'll stay subscribed to this thread, so if you have any issues please report them either here or on the
issue tracker.