posted 04-02- 10:17 AM               

I just downloaded 2 freeware editors that recognize several languages, have syntax highlighting and recordable macros- and feature custom syntax creation.

I thought I'd ask before going to far.

If anyone wnats to take a look at these- they're
ConText http://www.fixedsys.com/context/main.html

SuperIDE http://protostar.hypermart.net/informat.htm

both support multiple documents being opened too.

Any thoughts?

posted 04-02- 10:28 AM               

I use SynEdit and find it very useful. It has all the keywords of programming languages such as COBOL, Java, C++, Batch files, and more included and is capable of outputting PERL, SQL, vb, bat, html and heaps of other file formats.

It also has a hex editor included too. It supports something like 256 text or hex files open at a time providing you have sufficient RAM.

This program is Freeware and is available at:
www.mkidesign.com/synedit

posted 04-02- 02:58 PM               

jgro

posted 04-02- 03:25 PM               

for those more complex OL files, I often use Wordpad....coz my PC is so polite when it asks if I would prefer to use it

posted 04-02- 03:46 PM               

This looks better that the ones I found.

Nat & WT. Using a programming edito makes it a lot easier to find syntax problems because of the color highlighting.

Since you can have more than one file open, it makes cutting and pasting features a lot easier.

I've been using wordpad and notepad- that's why I went looking for something else.

Thanks guys.

posted 04-02- 04:44 PM               

Snickers,
simple thing,open it with a text editor and edit what you want,maybe it works after recreating a sm file ;-)

posted 04-03- 07:35 AM               

There is anywher from 10 to 20k worth of extra file size in the files that's unnecessary spaces. (for example, some entries have 20 to 40 spaces between the value and the closing parenthesis). I've already cleaned up the P51D and the Fw190A.

I don't know where all of these are coming from, but I'm going to do some checking after modifying a plane in OPS.