I’ve just experienced one of the strangest problems ever. A PHP project was probably copied from a Swedish Windows machine to a Linux server, set to handle Swedish somehow. From the server it was then downloaded to a Mac that was probably running Swedish too, and from the Mac to my strictly English Windows installation running Wamp and XAMPP.... Read More

The onStyleNeeded method in scintilla.rb used to look like this:... Read More

Another bug fix, phew, they do stack up when you really start using an application for real.... Read More

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