I was using the IDE for FreeBasic because it was the only (free) one I knew of that had tabbed text editing, and most crucial for editing source code, line numbers (because that's how the compiler informs you where errors are). The IDE has bugs, you have to be careful not to use the close window button (the right hand x (close button) on the tab line) for a particlar file and only use the menu, because it sometimes crashes the IDE.Roody_Yogurt wrote:We would have loved to have you, pinback. Maybe we can do another one soon enough.
(I still use EditPlus for 90% of my Hugo coding and only recently updated your original syntax file to include some more reserved words.)
I tried using Eclipse but it was a bastard to work with (especially where you're editing files that use a non-standard extension ( .HUG ) and it doesn't know the language), and using Eclipse for this seems to make me think of using it this way is like "using nuclear weapons to kill flies."
I am now using Programmer's Notepad, and if you can figure out the tough-as-a-son-of-a-bitch XML code for the syntax highlighting functionality you can use it to edit Hugo code where it will highlight keywords. (It has templates for something like 20 different languages.) I'd gotten spoiled by CodeLobster's editor for PHP which does this plus a really important feature once you get used to it: Brace Highlighting. When your cursor is next to a brace, either to the immediate left or right of it, with Brace Highlighting, it highlights that brace and the brace it relates to (the opening brace above if you're at the closing one, and vice-versa below) which makes block errors easy to find since you can see if your brace points to the wrong corresponding one.
Hugo works fairly well in Programmer's Notepad with C/C++ as the syntax highlighter plus it gives you Brace Highlighting, a real plus. If EditPlus (is free and) has a decent syntax highlighter that can be programmed easier than writing an XML file plus Brace Highlighting I'd be interested.