Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:00:43 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 708 ************************************************** Friday 15 September 2006 Number 708 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Editor suggestions : Richard C Steiner 2 Re: Editor suggestions : Brendan Oakley" 3 Re: Editor suggestions : Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= 4 Re: Editor suggestions : Richard C Steiner 5 Re: Editor suggestions : Richard C Steiner 6 Re: Editor suggestions : Richard C Steiner 7 Re: Editor suggestions : Maynard" 8 Re: Editor suggestions : Michael Greene 9 Re: Editor suggestions : Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= 10 Re: Editor suggestions : Brendan Oakley" 11 Re: Editor suggestions : Dave Yeo" 12 Re: Editor suggestions : Maynard" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:41:37 -0400 From: Richard C Steiner Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Quoting Brendan Oakley : > Jumping from a reference to a definition would be handy, especially > across different files. Many editors with exuberant ctags support should be able to do that. I don't know about plain vanilla ctags, since I've never used it. NEdit certainly does -- it's my main code editor when doing work on Solaris (from Windows via cygwin). If multiple files contain a matching definition, it brings up a selection dialog so you can pick the one you want. -- -Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA Written online using VISI's fancy web-based Horde interface! The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:12:47 -0700 From: "Brendan Oakley" Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Hi Richard. On 9/13/06, Richard C Steiner wrote: > Many editors with exuberant ctags support should be able to do that. I don't > know about plain vanilla ctags, since I've never used it. NEdit certainly does > -- it's my main code editor when doing work on Solaris (from Windows via > cygwin). > > If multiple files contain a matching definition, it brings up a selection dialog > so you can pick the one you want. What's the difference between ctags and cscope? Thanks. Brendan **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:31:15 +0200 From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Michael Greene wrote: > > Brendan Oakley wrote: > > 1) Syntax highlighting > > 2) Open and save Unix text format > > 3) Don't add EOF to files that did not have them > > 4) Leave tab characters alone > > 5) Don't crash or hang the whole WPS. > MED or FTE > http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-viewer?sh=1&fname=/pub/os2/apps/editors/fte20060126.zip Finally, someone suggested the best editor on the planet: fte. ;-))) Very fast, multiline syntax highlighting, preserves linebreaks DOS/Unix when saving files, available on various Unix systems, can display tabs and linebreaks, configurable (but poorly documented when I checked this last time), loads edited files on startup (if enabled), and you can configure it e.g. to replace accented characters by html sequences when you press the key in html mode (ü -> ü). Andreas **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:45:06 -0400 From: Richard C Steiner Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Quoting Brendan Oakley : > What's the difference between ctags and cscope? tags is a tool which generates a tag file in a widely-recognized format containing cross-reference information about functions, variables, methods, and various other definitions within a source tree. A number of text editors on several platforms can read a tags file and perform certain reference operations based on its contents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags Exuberant ctags is a ctags variant which generates a bit more information **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:51:22 -0400 From: Richard C Steiner Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Quoting Andreas Büning : > Finally, someone suggested the best editor on the planet: fte. ;-))) I thought I mentioned both xfte (the X variant) and vfte (the fullscreen console variant), but maybe that was in another thread somewhere else. So many forums, and so little wetware memory to share between them all... :-) FTE's my favorite general text editor under OS/2 and DOS, certainly, and the fact that it does customizable folding is really nice at times for reducing clutter. -- -Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA Written online using VISI's fancy web-based Horde interface! The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:55:08 -0400 From: Richard C Steiner Subject: Re: Editor suggestions My first response was cut off short -- I don't know why? Quoting Brendan Oakley : > What's the difference between ctags and cscope? Ctags is a tool which generates a tag file in a widely-recognized format containing cross-reference information about functions, variables, methods, and various other definitions within a source tree. A number of text editors on several platforms can read a tags file and perform certain reference operations based on its contents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags Exuberant ctags is a ctags variant which generates a bit more information **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:12:56 -0500 (CDT) From: "Maynard" Subject: Re: Editor suggestions On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:31:15 +0200, Andreas Bning wrote: >Finally, someone suggested the best editor on the planet: fte. ;-))) Yes. Well, .... that and 'joe' (jstar) ;-} --Maynard **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:54:36 -0400 From: Michael Greene Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Andreas Büning wrote: > Michael Greene wrote: >> Brendan Oakley wrote: > >>> 1) Syntax highlighting >>> 2) Open and save Unix text format >>> 3) Don't add EOF to files that did not have them >>> 4) Leave tab characters alone >>> 5) Don't crash or hang the whole WPS. > >> MED or FTE >> http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-viewer?sh=1&fname=/pub/os2/apps/editors/fte20060126.zip > > Finally, someone suggested the best editor on the planet: fte. ;-))) > Very fast, multiline syntax highlighting, preserves linebreaks DOS/Unix > when saving files, available on various Unix systems, can display tabs > and linebreaks, configurable (but poorly documented when I checked this > last time), loads edited files on startup (if enabled), and you can configure > it e.g. to replace accented characters by html sequences when you press the > key in html mode (ü -> ü). > > > Andreas > Andreas, Alfredo Fernandez Diaz sent me an email the other day asking about the fte on hobbes. I agree the docs suck (he also said this in his email). Also, it can use ctags as is being talked about elsewhere in this thread. I know I did something in the last archive that keeps the NT console version from working but I don't really use that version. Mike **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:48:53 +0200 From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCning?= Subject: Re: Editor suggestions Richard C Steiner wrote: > > Quoting Andreas Büning : > > > Finally, someone suggested the best editor on the planet: fte. ;-))) > > I thought I mentioned both xfte (the X variant) and vfte (the fullscreen console > variant), but maybe that was in another thread somewhere else. So many forums, > and so little wetware memory to share between them all... :-) I see. In that case it doesn't hurt if the best editor on the planet is suggested twice. ;-))) There is also an ftepm version which might be preferred by most OS/2 users. Andreas **= Email 10 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:08:08 -0700 From: "Brendan Oakley" Subject: Re: Editor suggestions On 9/14/06, Andreas Büning wrote: > There is also an ftepm version which might be preferred by most OS/2 users. Do you have a link? I'd be interested in trying that. Brendan **= Email 11 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:50:41 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: Editor suggestions On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:08:08 -0700, Brendan Oakley wrote: >On 9/14/06, Andreas Büning wrote: >> There is also an ftepm version which might be preferred by most OS/2 users. > >Do you have a link? I'd be interested in trying that. > >Brendan > It is included with the vio version, at least my one from 2005 includes it. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/editors/fte20060126.zip Dave **= Email 12 ==========================** Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:58:16 -0500 (CDT) From: "Maynard" Subject: Re: Editor suggestions On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:08:08 -0700, Brendan Oakley wrote: >Do you have a link? I'd be interested in trying that. try sourceforge.net --Maynard