The greatest code editor feature of all time

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by meynaf

I don't want "most", i want "all"

You get all, and much more because FrexxxEd is almost completely programmable. Everything that's missing from your list can be added. Everything that's not, probably However, if you want an editor that just does what you want out of the box, then FrexxEd is not for you. It's for people who want the ability to customize everything about their editor.

Originally Posted by meynaf

and faster than any editor needing an expanded machine.

It's not terrible, it's just not very fast with 688x564 16 color double scan modes and syntax coloring, and the script system is interpreted, so you shouldn't do heavy stuff with it.

Originally Posted by Zetr0

As we all know Thorham, our meynaf never compromises on code!

Indeed. I wish I could adapt his spartan attitude, but I'm spoiled

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by meynaf

... and likes code which is available for free which is not the case of FrexxEd (registration needed for full features).

Nope, it's free now. Key file is available, and so is the source code.

[losso]

My +1 votes would go to »highlight occurrences« and »minimap«. Really handy when used in conjunction.

(For example: highlight all occurrences of »a5« when it’s under the cursor for, say, 1 second)

[Hewitson]

Originally Posted by Thorham

FrexxEd can do most of that, and what it can't do you can add with a simple script, but it's not the fastest editor out there (needs expanded machine).

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

What's so funny about that?

[kamelito]

-Ability to display a copperlist if I place the cursor on one being source code or binary incbin(ed), same thing for BoB, Sprites, Sound Sample, Muzak, Picture ... you get my point.
-Ability to run the editor directly using the HW instead of OS functions.
-Support differents shortcuts to mimic your favorites editor
-I also like the way the GFABasic editor worked, by automatically indenting the code and checking it at the same time.
Kamelito

[Photon]

Just wanted to pop in to say that work is progressing and a quite a few of the features mentioned are in. I'm keeping focus on making an editor primarily for Assembler that runs well on all Amigas.

[tolkien]

When you say primarily in assambler It means there is a possibility for us poor c coders?

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by Thorham

(...) so you shouldn't do heavy stuff with it.

That may be THE main problem ! I do heavy stuff.

So in short, if an editor isn't more than 50kb to load in mem, loads immediately, and is able to handle a 4Mb source without taking ages, i can eventually consider using it

Originally Posted by Thorham

Indeed. I wish I could adapt his spartan attitude, but I'm spoiled

Hmmm... what does that mean...

[voxel]

- configurable multiple undo
- project folder which store all things necessary for that project ;-)
- autosave of the whole project when launching a compile and/or run (just in case the computer crashes...)
- timed autosave
- saving project should keep at least two (or more -configurable- versions of the project)
- auto version/revision/datestamp incrementation of the sources
- reminder to comment your sources as you type it! ;-)))
- multiple windows at once on the same (big) screen
- possibility to the source to be "auto refreshed" (configurable) when an external part of it has been updated (f.e. : an image for the gui that's inserted in the source in a "code" form and has been modified in it's picture form afterward...)
- auto base squelleton code creation when creating a project

my 2 cent ^^)

[Mrs Beanbag]

modern "windows style" text highlighting. one thing i always keep doing in Devpac is clicking to move the cursor, and then typing, only to find out i've actually just highlighted one character instead and my typing comes out somewhere else. Highlighted text and cursor should be the same thing!

Drag and drop would be nice, too.

Tabbed window for editing multiple files without having to have separate windows.

[Zetr0]

@meynaf

My friend, I suspect Thorham was expressing that you are a hard-core coder and he has creature-feature comforts that he cannot code without


I remember all we had was text files, that was it, in fact linking was an utter nightmare of a command line!

Then I got into IDE's (I blame Borland in the early 90's), once I had a contextual configurable key-word highlighting and auto-linker and debugger Integrated Development Environment.... I became quite used to said features very VERY quickly...

Only recently with Z80 ASM and z88dk have I returned to grass roots as it were ..... still got keyword highlighting though (thank you context!)

[meynaf]

You can consider me as a hard-core coder indeed.

But this thread shouldn't speak of me but of the best editor of the whole world

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by meynaf

That may be THE main problem ! I do heavy stuff.

I meant the script system. It's interpreted, so you shouldn't make it do tight loops.

Originally Posted by meynaf

So in short, if an editor isn't more than 50kb to load in mem, loads immediately, and is able to handle a 4Mb source without taking ages, i can eventually consider using it

Well, FrexxEd loads files fast enough, but it's not the smallest and does take a few secs to start.

Executable: 3.5 kb
Library: 216 kb (re-compiled)
Script library: 60 kb (re-compiled)
Scripts: 95 kb (non-compiled)

Originally Posted by meynaf

Hmmm... what does that mean...

It's not meant in a negative way

[Cylon]

If not mentioned before:
- block marking, and i mean really rectangular blocks of text, not line to line.

[jman]

Originally Posted by Thorham

For integration? Not that far. Even CygnusEd has a full Arexx port, and FrexxEd also has it's own script system (FPL, basically just C). For good integration I'd say you'd need an Arexx port (needed anyway), script system (Lua perhaps), and maybe a built-in assembler output parser. It would also be nice to have the ability to assemble and link only changed files (can be done with a script system).

Speaking of integration with a debugger, could it be possible to hook the editor to an external debugger à la DevPac (which uses MonAM)?

[demolition]

This is mainly for disassembled sources, but a 'show references' function would be very useful for labels which will scan the source for jumps/branches to a selected label and list them.
It is generally nice to have that function if trying to understand some foreign source code.

[kamelito]

-put somewhere on each line of 680x0 code the cycle taken by the instruction.
-if I select a bunch of line code inform the user of the cycles taken by the selected code.
*same thing code size, could also inform if the code fit the CPU caches.
-documentation of HW registers/includes/68k/autodocs fully integrated.

Kamelito

[Asman]

- calculate registers usage for block of code (omit comments) and for subroutines.

[Yesideez]

Here's one eature I've needed and Notepad++ has this very well.

If a section of text is highlighted, tab or shift+tab will indent/remove indent for the whole block.

I find this very handy when you paste some code in and the source is spaces and I want to use tabs. I highlight, shift-tab all the way back to the margin and tab out once to fix.