I’ve recently had the opportunity to check out TextMate and it has a nice feature that lets you select some lines and automatically add # to the beginning of them in order to comment them out.... Read More

They’re a bitch ... Read More

Squashing Bugs... Read More

I had to rename a lot of files today, recursively.... Read More

This is embarrassing, I noticed that after getting a new browser to the left - for instance when searching the whole project - and going back to the projects browser to open a new file there, the editor would crash because it could not find references to various locations. The initialize function in treectrl.rb looks like this now:... Read More

I’ve been working quite a bit with the editor lately and it feels stable enough to release, I’ll probably implement a few more features in the future, enough for now though.... Read More

Folding is of course a part of the lexer and when I made my own styling (described in the prior tutorial) it follows that I have to implement my own folding logic too. Well it’s as easily done as said, we just use the folding in lexLisp.cxx, here is our Ruby version of Alexey Yutkin’s C++ version in lexer.rb:... Read More

In the prior tutorial I hinted that I was working on compiling wxRuby with my own Pico Lisp lexer, I gave up on that after spending a few hours editing h-files and makefiles, only to discover that the Scintilla component would not work, possibly because of my changes, probably because of something else. ... Read More

This article might bore you, in that case you might want to skip to the end where a pretty useful “trick” for custom sorting the tree items is described. You might also want to check out the image related stuff, it is more complex than in the sample treectrl.rb... Read More

A lot has happened since the last part. As far as I’m concerned the framework is basically finished, what remains now is to create a few more lexers, for CSS, HTML and Javascript primarily. I’ve also tried to create my own integrated lexer (Pico instead of Common Lisp) in the Scintilla component, more on that as it develops…... Read More