Newbie Which text editor ?

stefan · 9 May 2005

Textpad rules, with it's user definable syntax highlighting etc. Only thing that disturbs me in it is their keyboard shortcuts. F5 for search??? And so on. I use it a lot at work though.

But...

You're gonna use an external text editor when writing code for the code module, or what?

Tom7777 · 9 May 2005

I just thought of something, Jorge and Malc could make a code helper module that basically have a load of commonly used works and when you click the word it gets typed in for you so you could basically click some code together in a few seconds without really using the keyboard. Not what you want though but i think this would make coding in SM super fast and save someone like me who does not type so fast loads of time. And maybe it could have some things set by string inputs so the user could make it work well for there coding workflow by adding anything they think is needed.

stefan · 9 May 2005

Tom7777 wrote: I just thought of something, Jorge and Malc could make a code helper module that basically have a load of commonly used works and when you click the word it gets typed in for you so you could basically click some code together in a few seconds without really using the keyboard. Not what you want though but i think this would make coding in SM super fast and save someone like me who does not type so fast loads of time. And maybe it could have some things set by sting inputs so the user could make it work well for there coding workflow by adding anything they thing is needed.

It would most likely be slower than typing.

Auto-completion in the code module would speed things up though. But clicking on "code words", no thanks 🙂

Tom7777 · 9 May 2005

It would most likely be slower than typing.

Im guessing you can touch type stuff, IMO clicking a mouse is a much faster system but i guess it depends on who is using it and for what. Maybe i will have to make my own module for this then.

stefan · 9 May 2005

Tom7777 wrote: It would most likely be slower than typing.

Im guessing you can touch type stuff, IMO clicking a mouse is a much faster system but i guess it depends on who is using it and for what. Maybe i will have to make my own module for this then.

Seriously, if I am to write for instance:

out = x1*a1 + x2*a2 + x3 * a3;

I fail to see how that would be faster by clicking for instance "out", "=", "x1", "*", "a1" and so forth. But then again, I'm typing more than 1-3 letters per second, aren't you? 🙂

Auto-completion rules though.

Tom7777 · 9 May 2005

Well no what i mean is its like a helper app that you can use. For instance you would have stuff like -

Monoin, Polyin, Monoout, polyout and then you would add stuff like cutoff, pitch, frequency, output, reso ect which someone might commonly use. Then anything like you said you would just type as normal.

But then again, I'm typing more than 1-3 letters per second, aren't you?

I guess when im going at what i would call fast typing for me but i have to look at the keboard still. Im not so great when typing 🙂

stefan · 9 May 2005

Tom7777 wrote: Well no what i mean is its like a helper app that you can use. For instance you would have stuff like -

Monoin, Polyin, Monoout, polyout and then you would add stuff like cutoff, pitch, frequency, output, reso ect which someone might commonly use. Then anything like you said you would just type as normal.

I think autocompletion would work faster for those things. You write "po", and "polyin" and "polyout" gets suggested and you just pick the one you want, or keep writing.

Nu Audio Science · 9 May 2005

Yeah i need an external app Stef for when im reading source and stuff from MusicDSP and such 🙂 I'm only just starting out and Textpads colors and stuff is helping me out because its the same as MSVC.