Hi,

Thank you very much... Macros file load without problem, also CUT without a
scroll bar don't gave me a GR.

Good work!

Bye!

Thanks Olaf! I use CygnusEd 5 every single day so any updates are always appreciated.

Just needs some syntax highlighting... (friendly poke)

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Just needs some syntax highlighting...

Well, I know I'm going to regret this, but I have to say that syntax highlighting and folding is next. Aside from oddities in the ARexx interface, I've just about had it with the small features that could be tweaked or enhanced easily. It's time for the big stuff. I'm going to regret this because it's likely to take a while before this feature is going to work. The text display operations are what make CygnusEd what it is, and the syntax highlighting and folding are open-heart-surgery.

I've never been a CygnusEd user, but looking at the featurelist, if you add syntax highlighting, you've got another sale from me

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I've never been a CygnusEd user, but looking at the featurelist, if you add syntax highlighting, you've got another sale from me...

I used to use folding back in the TurboText days but never really found it that useful in the end. But that syntax highlighting thang... that is the stuff dreams are made of.

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Heh. Last time I used folding was in AMOS

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I always used to use CygnusEd on my classic. Thanks for all your previous and
current work.

I have yet to find a need for it on my OS4 machine though. Because I don't use
it as my first computer anymore. But you can count me in for support buy anyway.
I bought your v4 upgrade about 7-8 years ago (I think), time just flies.

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I've turned-off the "Live Search" feature, because it was annoying the hell out me, but I'm sure some people will love it! But I am really glad that the auto-indent option is now saved, because it means I can finally use it when I do programming.

I'm not keen on the idea of folding, but it'd be really cool of CygnusEd could implement a feature of the OPL editor used on Psions (not to mention many modern IDEs) : Provide a list of all procedures/methods, so that one can see what is available, and quickly jump to the one of interest. Obviously identification of procs/methods would have to be customisable to different programming languages, but then so would folding. Perhaps both could be implemented?

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I've turned-off the "Live Search" feature, because it was annoying the hell out me, but I'm sure some people will love it!

I hope it will be useful. I thought about changing the GUI, so that the search & replace window could stay open all the time. That would have turned it into a non-modal requester, but the drawback is that it would be difficult to tell which view the search should happen in. The next best thing was to add this live-search feature, which allows you to test quickly if the search turns up something in the first place. That's quicker than answering the "didn't find what you were looking for" requester and reopening the search & replace window.

Thankfully, the good people who tested the editor reminded me of the drawbacks of live-search, which is why it became a configurable option and is not enabled all the time.

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But I am really glad that the auto-indent option is now saved, because it means I can finally use it when I do programming.

Try the new "Insert and indent" menu; copy & paste programming has never been so easy

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I'm not keen on the idea of folding, but it'd be really cool of CygnusEd could implement a feature of the OPL editor used on Psions (not to mention many modern IDEs) : Provide a list of all procedures/methods, so that one can see what is available, and quickly jump to the one of interest. Obviously identification of procs/methods would have to be customisable to different programming languages, but then so would folding. Perhaps both could be implemented?

I have seen such a feature. It's a bit difficult to implement since you have to have a full-blown parser running all the time, checking up after each editing operation. Tough call :-/

Thanks,

It's really appreciated because I use CygnusEd for coding, e-mail - almost everything except word-processing.

The only feature I'd really like to see added is a bottom scoll bar.
And maybe a hex mode, but now I'm getting greedy

Regards,
        JCC

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I have seen such a feature. It's a bit difficult to implement since you have to have a full-blown parser running all the time, checking up after each editing operation. Tough call :-/

You could have a subtask (or even a subtask-per-view) running at a lower priority than the editor. Most of the time it would sit in a wait state, but wake up when you edit the code (and restart itself if it was in the middle of parsing). That way it wouldn't steal any cycles from the editing tasks. If it ever gets all the way through parsing without an editing operation interrupting it, it passes its findings back to the editor task to display the procedures in its window.

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"- You can now copy or cut a text block and insert it with each line auto-indented like the line the cursor is on..."

Does this mean each line's previous indentation is lost and equalled to the one of the line the cursor is on ? If so, wouldn't it be more usefull to raise the previous indentations by the amount that's on the destination line ? Hope this is how it works.

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It works like this:

- CygnusEd looks at the block to be inserted, checking how many spaces and tabs introduce each line.

- All lines are checked in order to figure out which leading sequence of blank space characters is common to all lines.

- CygnusEd then looks at how far the current line, which the cursor is placed on, has been indented and remembers the exact sequence of blank spaces introducing it.

- When the block is inserted, for each single line CygnusEd skips the sequence of blank spaces which is common to all lines, inserts the line indentation and the rest of the line.

This means that you can copy any block, with any indendation, from your source code, and paste it anywhere else, and CygnusEd will make sure that it fits the same level of indentation of where you pasted it.

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I have seen such a feature. It's a bit difficult to implement since you have to have a full-blown parser running all the time, checking up after each editing operation. Tough call :-/

Hmmm, I guess that'd be (much) harder for a C-like language, but for AmigaE you just need to check for a line which starts with "PROC "...

Perhaps you could make the identification of C procedures "probabilistic". i.e. It has a guess that something looks like a procedure, but it can't be sure. I suppose it would work something like this:

Line starts with an identifier (i.e. not a number or symbol), followed by a space, followed by another identifier, followed by an open bracket. As I always end such a line with an opening curley brace, you could add that as an optional requirement.

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Yes, that's what I thought.
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I am saddened to report that (like the auto indent feature before it) the new "Live Search" feature is NOT saved. Which means it gets turned on after each reboot (or full quit). Grrrr.

Also, the TrueMultiAssign work-around you added does not seem to work when I do this:
CEd:Ed someMultiAssignment:

P.S. I think Live Search annoys me because of the incredibly short delay before it uses what I've typed. So it ends-up changing the display in the middle of my typing/thinking (where I just happen to have paused for a minuscule period). Making the delay configurable would probably solve this.

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How is CED LiveSearch different from FireFox LiveSearch?

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... I have to say that syntax highlighting and folding is next.

Hooray for folding!!

Sorry for my slow reply. I was on vacation.

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I am saddened to report that (like the auto indent feature before it) the new "Live Search" feature is NOT saved. Which means it gets turned on after each reboot (or full quit). Grrrr.

Shock, consternation, uproar: CygnusEd does not save the search options in the configuration file I should have checked that, and not assumed that CygnusEd would already do that. The configuration file will have to be extended in the next update.

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Also, the TrueMultiAssign work-around you added does not seem to work when I do this:

Hm... maybe Ed should check an environment variable to see if the multi assignment matching should be handled differently. The new Ed requires that you use the MATCHSINGLE option to make it stop after it has found the first non-wildcard match for a file. The documentation does not describe this in sufficient detail, I'm afraid For now I would recommend that you add an alias to your S:Shell-Startup, which could read something like "Alias Ed Ed MATCHSINGLE []".

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I think Live Search annoys me because of the incredibly short delay before it uses what I've typed. So it ends-up changing the display in the middle of my typing/thinking (where I just happen to have paused for a minuscule period). Making the delay configurable would probably solve this.

The delay is about half a second. Fast typing generally does not trigger it, but making the delay configurable should satisfy everybody

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How is CED LiveSearch different from FireFox LiveSearch?

In Firefox the search feature integrates with the main window, whereas in CygnusEd it's an option for the (modal) search requester window. Also, the search does not start and adapt as you type, but you have to pause for a tick for the search to pick up what you typed and start looking for a match. The highlighting is also a bit different, owing to the circumstances.