Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2018 08:51:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 
> > When we are at LinuxCNC, could you try out the new syntax highlighting
> > for gcode? It's included in the latest psb builds.
> >
> > Nik
> 
> For what editor? Where should I see it IOW. Certainly not gedit as it has 
> an incurable tendency to move arbitrary blocks of code around in the 
> file so its been nuked from all of my systems. gedit is a very capable 
> editor, capable of wrecking 2 years work. I've sorted that pan of 
> scrambled eggs, 1000 LOC, several times too many, even resorting to 
> getting last nights backup out to recover.

It's for "kate" and "kwrite" :-)

> I now use nano or geany if a gui is available, which so far has Just 
> Worked(TM). It does do some C style code checking, matching brackets etc 
> type stuff, but I've found highlighting words only usefull by the spell 
> checkers.

geany was what I used ill I found FernVs gcode.xml for kate. I think the highlighting for kate works way better than in geany. The only bug I found is indirect o-calls are marked as syntax error (e.g.: o[#1] is displayed red underlined).
 
> As for LCNC, I wish the highliteing of the line being processed in it 
> lower code display wasn't greyed out as it is now, but displayed in bold 
> text. Trying to read the greyed out text is getting difficult with my 
> cataracts thrown in.
>  
> perhaps you could do something about that?

I think that would be possible, but axis is written python and my python knowledge is still in a book on the shelf ..

> And we are off-topic, again.
:-)
> 

Nik


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