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[Beastmaster]

Ladies and gentleman

I proudly present - my first poll

[Chris]

It wouldn't be a high priority because there are several free editors -- such as Crimson and Scite I believe -- that can be enhanced to colorize syntax and such. Why reinvent the wheel?

Also, Rajat has already made a context-sensitive help macro (http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/ContextSensitiveHelp.htm) and an auto-complete macro. The latter only works in TextPad, but I'm pretty sure it could easily be adapted for general use with any editor.

[Beastmaster]

Yep, confirmed. Maybe I've to clearify my request/posting

Yes, of course there are hundreds of editors around so why reinvent the wheel - good point.

For those which are used to use a specific editor since years (UltraEdit, TextPad, MetaPad, EditPad, ...), especially if programming different languages (AHK & C++ & HTML & ...), this definitely won't make any sense - really ?

My investigations around that topic on different dev forums came up with an interesting aspect: a majority of developers seems to use minimum 2 editors in parallel - with MS Windows it was always the same - Notepad - lean, quick, handy, always available.

So I thought about an AHK Notepad like editor ...

a) which provides support, limited to AHK[/A2/A3/INI/txt]
b) which won't boost the download size
c) a single executable
d) which, if wanted could be included in a compiled AHK[/A2/A3] script - which is a li'll difficult with CrimsonEditor based on its size (see below ))

For beginners (AHK novice) that means: No installation, just run it (eg. linked with some sample scripts) Syntaxhighlighting, less errors, even more satisfaction.

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sciTE: 600K [Download]
NotePad2: 496K (Installed) [Download]
Crimson Editor: 1133KB (Download) 3MB (Installed) [Download]

BTW: sciTE (and NotePad2, both using the same editor component - SCIntilla)

[Chris]

It looks like it would add at least 200K to the installer size. It might be worth it someday, but for now it's not the highest priority because not many users would probably opt to use it (since they have an editor of their own). I would estimate that only about 20 or 30% would install that option. Still, that's a pretty high number.

From what I gather from the e-mail you sent me, notepad2 (unlike Scite?) does not accept external syntax and cliptext files. You must change and recompile the program to recognize a new syntax? Anyway, that's the main reason it's not the highest priority. Maybe someone else will get to it before I do.

[Beastmaster]

[Rajat]

though the editor u use might have that feature already... but if it doesn't then AHK cmd AutoComplete script that i've made for TextPad (as Chris mentioned) can be easily adapted to any editor of choice.... u might like to try that.

its in the new beta (get the link in announcements section).
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