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Offline Omega Space ProtonsTopic starter

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New Text Editor
« on: May 02, 2011, 11:06:25 PM »
I am trying to get back into Amiga Development, and would like to know if i should create a text editor or is there enough good text editors that i should try to make another type of application. Any assistence in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2011, 11:11:31 PM »
Perhaps you should join Hyperion coding OS4 as per their request... looks like they are having some trouble with resources...
 
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2011, 11:23:34 PM »
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Perhaps you should join Hyperion coding OS4 as per their request... looks like they are having some trouble with resources...
 
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I don't get it :confused: I'm trying to back into coding applications for the amiga and decided that a text editor would be simple to do. Any assistence in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2011, 11:46:06 PM »
Read here: http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz/?p=327
 
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2011, 11:51:35 PM »
Depends on the target platform: if you think just PPC/AROS maybe there's room for improvements (eg. fast syntax recognition needs some processing power).
If you aim to 68k mostly, I think that going better than present choices is difficult or, at least, would take a quite long time of coding for comparing with leading products (the classic Cygnus Editor, GoldED, etc.).

But if you feel to do it, do it anyway! :)

BY!

P.S. I'm thinking about doing a basic QR code decoder (from images): pretty useless on a fixed system, but why not, and I want to do some coding as well!  :)
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2011, 12:05:43 AM »
Cubic IDE is an excellent editor - probably the best on the Amiga.

Check it out: http://devplex.awardspace.biz/cubic/index.html
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2011, 12:16:57 AM »
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Cubic IDE is an excellent editor - probably the best on the Amiga.
Cubic IDE is monstrously huge, doesn't work with OS3.1, requires RTG, and isn't free. I can see a definite need for an editor that's smaller, more compatible, and doesn't cost 50 EUR.
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2011, 12:27:03 AM »
Quote from: amigakit;634991
Cubic IDE is an excellent editor - probably the best on the Amiga.

Check it out: http://devplex.awardspace.biz/cubic/index.html


I`m not trying to create a 39M text editor to sell. I want to create an open source text editor in which everyone can contribute in making it better. After some loose research, none of thebquoted text editors provide their source code. If everyone helps, maybe there will be an OpenOffice for Amiga!!! .....maybe.

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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2011, 01:03:29 AM »
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I am trying to get back into Amiga Development, and would like to know if i should create a text editor or is there enough good text editors that i should try to make another type of application. Any assistence in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
 
Sincerely,
 
Omega Space Protons

I would love to see one that runs line numbers down the left-hand side like notepad2, bluefish, or programmer's notepad.

And code formatting like any of these do would be great. But that might be asking a bit much.

Also good search and replace.

Personally, I think text editors on the Amiga, pretty much suck and are way unusable.

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots.html
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2011, 01:18:14 AM »
Quote from: Omega Space Protons;634995
I`m not trying to create a 39M text editor to sell. I want to create an open source text editor in which everyone can contribute in making it better. After some loose research, none of thebquoted text editors provide their source code. If everyone helps, maybe there will be an OpenOffice for Amiga!!! .....maybe.

Sincerely,

Omega Space Protons


Well, if you could knock up a text editor with a some sort of spellchecker and .doc (WinWord) compatibility, then you will surely have something worth supporting.

Good luck! :)
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2011, 04:22:59 AM »
What is the most resource friendly, but rich in features, Text Editor available for classic Amiga?
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2011, 04:54:11 AM »
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What is the most resource friendly, but rich in features, Text Editor available for classic Amiga?

For me it is undoubtly

TextEngine 5.2 (Which is now free)

http://aminet.net/text/edit/TextEngine.lha
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2011, 07:41:23 AM »
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Also good search and replace.


Doesn't the old Ed 2.0 use regular expressions for search and replace? Or at least a simplified form thereof...

Back in the day, I wrote a lot of code with just that editor, and if I needed a particularly heavy session, memacs :)
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2011, 10:08:33 AM »
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I`m not trying to create a 39M text editor to sell. I want to create an open source text editor in which everyone can contribute in making it better. After some loose research, none of thebquoted text editors provide their source code.


If you want to contribute to an open source Amiga text-editor, take a look at FrexxEd. It's open source, and I'm working on various changes (AROS port works pretty well; various scripting updates; palette handling improvements etc.). It's fairly mature as-is, but there's plenty of room for improving it.

Take a look at https://github.com/vidarh/FrexxEd

I don't have enough time to work very quickly on it, so anyone who wants to join in and contribute are very much welcome... If you're interested, let me know and I'll outline some of the ideas I have
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Re: New Text Editor
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2011, 11:59:03 AM »
I also think there's some room for a nice, simple text editor which has some options like syntax highlighting, line numbers etc., maybe auto-indenting and a scripting interface to allow compilation from the menus, though this isn't essential. As an example, I carry Notepad++ around with me on a USB drive. It does what I need and is pretty small. It's also open-source, so maybe a partial port or some borrowing of features might be possible?
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