is it possible save code with syntax errors?

stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 10:36:15 AM11/14/19

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Hello, I just wanted to quickly know if there's any way to Save code within the Google script editor that has syntax errors in it? sometimes I explicitly write code that is incorrect to represent the incorrect syntax as it is helpful sometimes to see that. thank you

Alan Wells

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Nov 14, 2019, 10:52:41 AM11/14/19

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There may be some errors that the Apps Script code editor fails to find before saving the code. I don't know what they are. I rarely get an uncaught server side error. Most of the uncaught errors I get are from client side DOM code that fails when the HTML is processed.

Do you want to display incorrect code in the browser as a teaching help?

If you want to display code in HTML, you can use a <code> tag:

<pre style="background-color:#d9d9d9;width:98%;">
<code class="codeWidth">function stop_Accepting_Responses() {
var thisForm;

thisForm = FormApp.getActiveForm();//Get the Form

thisForm.setAcceptingResponses(false);//Set the Accepting Responses status to OFF

sendEmail();
}

function sendEmail() {
var em,o;

em = Session.getEffectiveUser().getEmail();

o = {
    to:em,
    subject:'Form is Shut Down',
    body:'The Form with ID:\n\n' + thisForm.getId() + '\nTitle: ' +
      thisForm.getTitle() + '\n\nis no longer accepting responses'
}

MailApp.sendEmail(o);

}
</code></pre>

stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 11:32:34 AM11/14/19

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Thank you for your response. I'm actually a complete beginner and I'm just using the script editor for now to simply to write practice code, no functional purpose for it other than just practicing.... But now that I come to think about it, when you're writing code in an HTML editor, it doesn't notify you of or display anything written incorrectly, so that wouldn't be an issue with HTML? Does it work the same way for CSS? I originally started with JavaScript In the Google script editor so that's where I was having this issue where incorrectly written code was not being saved when I needed it to. But It sounds like you're saying there is no actual setting or workaround to save incorrectly written JavaScript code?

stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 11:49:08 AM11/14/19

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I'm thinking that the Google script editor may not be the best option for me. I'm simply trying to write practice code for now in HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a browser-based editor so that I can save all of my code in the cloud, not locally. and I need to be able to create many different files to organize my practice code. would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you

stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 11:52:04 AM11/14/19

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And it has to allow me to save incorrectly written code

CBM Services

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Get Notepad++. It will let you save anything and has basic formatting support for HTML and JavaScript.

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And it has to allow me to save incorrectly written code

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Hello, I just wanted to quickly know if there's any way to Save code within the Google script editor that has syntax errors in it? sometimes I explicitly write code that is incorrect to represent the incorrect syntax as it is helpful sometimes to see that. thank you

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stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 12:13:36 PM11/14/19

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Thank you for your suggestion but I'm on Mac and it's saying it's only for Windows and won't let me download it..... any other Browser-based suggestions?

On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12:04:48 PM UTC-5, George wrote:

Get Notepad++. It will let you save anything and has basic formatting support for HTML and JavaScript.
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And it has to allow me to save incorrectly written code

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Hello, I just wanted to quickly know if there's any way to Save code within the Google script editor that has syntax errors in it? sometimes I explicitly write code that is incorrect to represent the incorrect syntax as it is helpful sometimes to see that. thank you

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Try to see if you can get the Microsoft Visual Studio software. There is a free version and they may have a Mac version.

On Thu., Nov. 14, 2019, 9:13 a.m. stephen pastore, <stephe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion but I'm on Mac and it's saying it's only for Windows and won't let me download it..... any other Browser-based suggestions?

On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12:04:48 PM UTC-5, George wrote:

Get Notepad++. It will let you save anything and has basic formatting support for HTML and JavaScript.
From: stephen pastore
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Subject: [Apps-Script] Re: is it possible save code with syntax errors?

And it has to allow me to save incorrectly written code

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Hello, I just wanted to quickly know if there's any way to Save code within the Google script editor that has syntax errors in it? sometimes I explicitly write code that is incorrect to represent the incorrect syntax as it is helpful sometimes to see that. thank you

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stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 12:26:26 PM11/14/19

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I will take a look thank you.

On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12:23:04 PM UTC-5, George wrote:

Try to see if you can get the Microsoft Visual Studio software. There is a free version and they may have a Mac version.

On Thu., Nov. 14, 2019, 9:13 a.m. stephen pastore, <stephe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for your suggestion but I'm on Mac and it's saying it's only for Windows and won't let me download it..... any other Browser-based suggestions?

On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12:04:48 PM UTC-5, George wrote:

Get Notepad++. It will let you save anything and has basic formatting support for HTML and JavaScript.
From: stephen pastore
Sent: ‎2019-‎11-‎14 8:52 AM
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Subject: [Apps-Script] Re: is it possible save code with syntax errors?

And it has to allow me to save incorrectly written code

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Hello, I just wanted to quickly know if there's any way to Save code within the Google script editor that has syntax errors in it? sometimes I explicitly write code that is incorrect to represent the incorrect syntax as it is helpful sometimes to see that. thank you

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Trevor Scanlan

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You could 'comment out' the code if it gives you trouble saving. This would keep whatever code that is commented out from being checked. It's great you are practicing. Not getting discouraged is usually harder than the code. Use a block style comment to comment out entire chunks or the whole code. You can use a line comment to 'hide' a specific line but this may also break the next piece of code so I would say use the block style comment.

/* busted

code

in

between these symbols

*/

You can also highlight or 'select all' and go to Edit ==> Toggle Comment.

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Trevor Scanlan

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Here are a couple online editors that have cloud storage included in its features: https://jsfiddle.net/ and https://codesandbox.io/

stephen pastore

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Nov 14, 2019, 3:37:43 PM11/14/19

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Thank you for all that!

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