I spent a few minutes looking into this. It's pretty easy to grab a script, write it to a temp file, then invoke the user's editor of choice passing it the temp file name assuming the editor has a command line option to do that.
But I couldn't figure out how to automatically get the edited file back into Livecode and deal with compile errors so I stopped at that point. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Charles E Buchwald <char...@buchwald.ca> wrote: > I'd be happy with a button in the properties palette, kind of like the one > for images: "Edit in External Editor" > I'm imagining this would open up the script in my choice of default text > editor, and when done editing, save it back to my stack. > Maybe even a plugin could do this without too much trouble. > - Charles > > On 18 Sep 2014, at 12:16 AM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > > > Pete- > > > > Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 9:29:57 PM, you wrote: > > > >> If only RunRev would come up with a script editor that had code folding, > >> auto-complete, etc, we wouldn;t need to be messing with these other > editors. > > > > I doubt it. Everyone wants something different out of a script editor. > > Having hooks to allow for external editors would let everyone use what > > they're used to, whether it's Coda or vim or whatever. > > > > -- > > -Mark Wieder > > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > -- > Charles E. Buchwald > CEO/Director General > Museografica Digital > http://digital.museografica.com > > Mac OSX 10.9.4, LC 6.6.2 Commercial > > LC Developer Tools: http://buchwald.ca > > Email Notice: http://wp.me/P3aT4d-33 > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
