[Chicken-users] SciTE

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I've discovered Scintilla / SciTE.  http://www.scintilla.org  It's way
> > smaller and claims to have some Scheme support already.  Reading what /
> > how I could configure it is just 1 long webpage.  MinGW appears to be
> > working out of the box.  Most importantly, it's a popular and mature
> > open source project.  Plus it's MIT licensed.
>
> Well, please keep us up to date. I've never used it, but know people who
> think very high of it. It'd be interesting to know more and perhaps 
> document
> whatever you think is worth for other users to know.

It just flunked out-of-the-box ease-of-use.  In C/C++ mode the default 
'indent' command tries to invoke a program called 'astyle', and since it 
isn't installed, nothing happens.  So, I read the docs and learned that 
'astyle' is an external code formatter.  I downloaded and installed it.  
Now when I type 'indent', the file is changed externally, and is not 
reflected in my actual editing window.  I find this lame.  I'm now 
reading mailing list entries about whether the behavior I want is 
possible - that is, just indent when I tell it to, and show the results 
immediately.  But IMNSO an editor should already do this out-of-the-box 
with no special futzing.  Broken indenting is the reason I ditched 
XEmacs in the first place!

SciTE is still simpler than XEmacs, both in terms of documentation and 
code size, so I'm not giving up yet.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every