Code editor

[Arlen Beiler]

Good morning everyone,

I have been using visual studio code for quite a lot of things recently but it does have a few drawbacks so I thought I would see what everyone else is using especially since the tiddlywiki code bases quite massive and yet there do not seem to be any interfaces or anything like that such as Visual Studio code seems to enjoy. Actually, vs code is more built for working with TypeScript than JavaScript.

So what do you all use?

- Arlen

[PMario]

Hi Arlen

I'm using brackets-electron most of the time. https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-electron/releases ... that's a "forked" version, where there is still development going on. It works very well for me.

I'm using the following extensions:

 - Brackets Exclude Indexing FileTree 1.0.0
 - Brackets Git 0.16.6
 - Newline 0.0.2
 - Pretty Json 0.1.2
 - Show Whitespace 2.0.1

Have fun!
mario

[Matthew Lauber]

I ususally use Atom

[Mat]

Don't laugh but I do all my coding (which is limited to writing wikitext/html/css) directly in TW, using the SideEditor. And the inspector, I guess.

It is tremendously useful to see the output live as I edit, particularly for the CSS. Is that somehow possible with the editors you use?

I understand a big downside with my approach is lack of intellisense or similar to auto complete strings and to match brackets. Actually, what else am I missing?

<:-)

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Mat

I use the same setup as you do :–)

In addition I have a “real” editor to:
– repair my TW in case I mess things up
– search & replace
– undo
– compare files.

I use Komodo for these tasks. https://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide/downloads/edit

Happy coding!
Thomas

[Abraham Samma]

I was actually trying to create something akin to this (SideEditor I mean). Nice to see someone beat me to it :). An outstandingly useful feature that, IMHO, should be added to the core.

[Mat]

Abraham Samma wrote:

I was actually trying to create something akin to this (SideEditor I mean). Nice to see someone beat me to it :).

There is definitely room for improvement though. (E.g the quick "hover-to-switch areas" are very useful... but at the same time darn annoying when you unintentionally... ) 

 

An outstandingly useful feature that, IMHO, should be added to the core.

It'd be good if the the existing editor preview feature could be extended to feature detached modes; one for something equivalent to SideEditor and one for an editor in a separate browser window (similar to rquicktid).

<:-)