Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-06 Thread Simon Knight
WILCO! ordered from ABE books for 67p On 05/04/2015 16:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: Simon Knight wrote: You raise some interesting and in some ways disturbing questions. Why are we seemingly locked into an endless cycle of replacing working equipment with new more expensive versions? Read Vict

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Apr 5, 2015, at 4:20 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On all other platforms I use GNU Emacs, the one editor to rule them all, the > ultimate editor, the true choice of Real Programmers, etc. etc. "I refuse to get involved in a theological argument." - Charlie Brown ___

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Simon Knight wrote: You raise some interesting and in some ways disturbing questions. Why are we seemingly locked into an endless cycle of replacing working equipment with new more expensive versions? Read Victor Papanek's "Design for the Real World". -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-04-04 15:52, Shawn Beagle wrote: I’ve used TextWrangler, TextEdit, WebStorm, Coda2, Sublime Text2 & 3, Brackets, and now use Atom. I prefer Atom, mainly because of the packets manager, and that it’s open source. I'm currently using Atom on OS X. On all other platforms I use GNU Emacs,

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-04-04 11:12, Richmond wrote: Where the website refers to "Revolution" read 'LiveCode', where the website refers to "Transcript" read whatever-the-heck the programming language in LiveCode is currently called, if anything at all. If it helps, in the office we currently refer to the "tra

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/04/15 11:14, Simon Knight wrote: Richmond, You raise some interesting and in some ways disturbing questions. That's because I am both interesting and disturbing . . . LOL I remember watching the very good film of "Far from the Madding Crowd" with Alan Bates and Julie Christie when I

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Simon Knight
Richmond, You raise some interesting and in some ways disturbing questions. Why are we seemingly locked into an endless cycle of replacing working equipment with new more expensive versions? In early days the improvements were real with greater storage and improved graphics. I bought my fir

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread stephen barncard
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Shawn Beagle wrote: > I’ve used TextWrangler, TextEdit, WebStorm, Coda2, Sublime Text2 & 3, > Brackets, and now use Atom. I prefer Atom, mainly because of the packets > manager, and that it’s open source. I've ended up with Textmate, mainly because there's a cod

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Shawn Beagle
I’ve used TextWrangler, TextEdit, WebStorm, Coda2, Sublime Text2 & 3, Brackets, and now use Atom. I prefer Atom, mainly because of the packets manager, and that it’s open source. > On Apr 4, 2015, at 04:12, Richmond wrote: > > On 04/04/15 11:48, Simon Knight wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have to p

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/15 15:10, Simon Knight wrote: I've no objection to the built in script editor (except when it bangs out during debug) especially as I have just re-discovered that if I cut and paste from it I get coloured text. However, I want to create a document that compares Livecode script with VB

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Knight
I've no objection to the built in script editor (except when it bangs out during debug) especially as I have just re-discovered that if I cut and paste from it I get coloured text. However, I want to create a document that compares Livecode script with VBA code and if I do a cut and paste from

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/15 13:18, Simon Knight wrote: Richmond, Many thanks - I will give textwrangler a try, I have used it as a plain text editor but never really dug deep: I have down loaded the "Revolution" add-in that you pointed me to and may have a try at creating my own. The one thing I have not be

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Knight
Richmond, Many thanks - I will give textwrangler a try, I have used it as a plain text editor but never really dug deep: I have down loaded the "Revolution" add-in that you pointed me to and may have a try at creating my own. The one thing I have not been able to do is to directly export col

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/15 11:48, Simon Knight wrote: Hi, I have to produce some documentation and am looking for an editor (Apple Mac) that will support language syntax colouring. I am experimenting with TextWrangler. The complication is I want to use both Livecode and MS Access VBA code. Do you have a

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/15 11:48, Simon Knight wrote: Hi, I have to produce some documentation and am looking for an editor (Apple Mac) that will support language syntax colouring. I am experimenting with TextWrangler. The complication is I want to use both Livecode and MS Access VBA code. Do you have a

Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-04 Thread Simon Knight
Hi, I have to produce some documentation and am looking for an editor (Apple Mac) that will support language syntax colouring. I am experimenting with TextWrangler. The complication is I want to use both Livecode and MS Access VBA code. Do you have any suggestions ? best wishes Simon __