the bigg Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 http://www.context.cx/content/view/51/1/ Link to comment
cmorgan Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Ms. Kirin hasn't been able to do much on it the past few years, so I guess it is understandable, but it is a shame. I know I have moved over to other (some non-free, some free) products, but ConTEXT is still the default highlighter/open for .d and .baf on my machine. Link to comment
Domi Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 On mine as well, but I assume that the old versions can be kept indefinetly, right? Link to comment
the bigg Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 Yes. However, try saving a tp2 with Word (or just put a '{' character somewhere out of a "string") and then running it through WeiDU 201.00 or later, and you'll see why I'm somewhat more worried Link to comment
Domi Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Oh, Okay. Well, maybe there will be another free editor that will take place of ConTEXT for us. Link to comment
cmorgan Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 We'd better do come research/put up the links - Crimson is free, and Textpad/WildEdit is $25 US - but we'd better research others, as ConTEXT is still pretty much canon. Link to comment
Guest erik Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I'll probably be lynched for suggesting vim? Even though it's free, and can do syntax highlighting (once someone adapts the patterns). Notepad++ looks good. Link to comment
icelus Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I use Notepad++ as my default text editor (I actually had it replace the notepad.exe file on my system), but I've never used it for coding, so... this is probably a pointless post. Link to comment
berelinde Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Heh. I don't use M$ Word for anything. I'm too fond of my ' and " and ... to want to go there, and I haven't figured out how to switch that feature off. Yeah, it means that I can't use M$ Word's "superior" spell-checker, but my spelling isn't that bad. I like Crimson Editor. It's free, it's easy to install, easy to use, and I know the guy that did the WeiDU highlighters for it. Link to comment
Gabrielle Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Its no biggy. Most of us here have the latest version. If they decided to charge for newer releases, I'm someone can upload an older version to someone who may not have it. Notepad works wonders to. Link to comment
cmorgan Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 I'll take a look at NotePad++ - it looks like the changes necessary for syntax highlighting are a matter of copying and pasting keywords lists (no biggie - even my feeble brain can handle that ). eric - vim? I followed the link, but is this one a programmers editor? If it is, again, throwing together keyword highlighters is a matter of cut and paste, and we can build a resource page very quickly. I still hold out hope that someone will buy ConTEXT and keep it free, but then again, if I had to start someone out I would tell them to buy TextPad and WildEdit, and download the free WinMerge for finding and merging changes between working and master copies of the mod. (P.S. looking at L1NPCs, I noticed some missing keywords, so I suspect it is a good idea to take a look and see if everything finally got added to the highlighters. Even if only one or two people use them, that's fine by me. ) (P.P.S. - I just saw the QuickText plugin - I think I will play with that this weekend - that looks like a quick way to instantly sketch out code... cool. And this thing converst numerical systems, and does all sorts of inyeresting stuff - I am checking on column edit and fiinding in files within a subdirectory, but this is a pretty nifty program - Notepad++ looks really good.) Link to comment
the bigg Posted September 27, 2007 Author Share Posted September 27, 2007 eric - vim? I followed the link, but is this one a programmers editor? If it is, again, throwing together keyword highlighters is a matter of cut and paste, and we can build a resource page very quickly. It isn't that easy - you have to build a lexer/parser for syntax highlighting in vim, rather than copying/pasting the highlighter from EG. Context. As an example, the ConTEXT highlighter for OCaml is 2.5KB, whereas the vim one is 13 KB. Besides, vim has a worse learning curve than IA for a first time RPG gamer Link to comment
jastey Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 (It's the plain editor that's available under Windows for me, and will always be. ConTEXT doesn't do the line breaks right, and I deinstalled it pretty fast before going mad.) Link to comment
Rabain Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Are you talking about notepad or wordpad. If you've been using wordpad and pasting into context then it's probably wordpad's fault and not context. Context has never had any issues for me, it's column and line reference is great! You can always tell where you are to resolve those weidu errors. I guess most good text editors have that but I prefer context. Link to comment
jastey Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 It's called "Editor" and you find it under "accessories". i didn't copy and paste, I typed into conTEXT, and it didn't do the line break, and for the cases where the line break occurred correctly, there was an extra line-break in the game which looked really odd. With "Editor", whatever it is called, if you switch off "line break", you have the option to "jump to line...", and that is enough for debugging using the line number WeiDU installer gives for an install error. Link to comment
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