Re: A special P.S. text editor?
- From: thoward37@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 23 Mar 2007 13:40:19 -0700
i personally use either Notepad++, or ConTEXT depending on my mood.
both are free and provide nice syntax highlighting, and the ability to
integrate with an external program via command line (ie. ghostscript/
gswin32c.exe, or ghostview, etc).
both have multiple syntax definitions for lots of different languages
and formats.. i especially enjoy using notepad++ for editing XML
documents. conTEXT is more like an IDE, and I like to use it with
postscript/ghostscript or python/CPython.
Notepad++ website:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
ConTEXT website:
http://www.context.cx/
so that's the free stuff, there's also a full-fledged postscript IDE
called PsAlter which will let you do lots of neat stuff like see the
objects on the operand and execution stack in real-time while you're
processing and let you step through the execution line-by-line. it's
kind of pricey and has not had an new release or update since May
2001... that said, when i contacted the helpdesk about the program
they set me up with an evaluation license to test drive it, so you
could try it out if you'd like.
PsAlter website:
http://www.quite.com/psalter
hope that helps,
troy
On Mar 9, 6:21 pm, "Phillip L. Emerson" <abuelo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm using Microsoft Notepad while learning to
program in P.S. with the Ghostscript implementation.
My habit now is to write my program in a .txt file,
and then after edit it, do a save, which saves it with
the .txt extension, and also then a save as, and then
do a selection from the Notepad's formats of all-files,
and then a specification of my file name but with
the .ps extension.
This all woks ok, but is a bit awkward for
intensive trial-and-error revisions which, i hate to
admit, I often practice. It would seem convenient
to have an editor which automatically:
1. creates the duplicate file with the .ps extension
along with the revised file with the .txt extension,
2. allows for an "include" specification in the
.txt source file (similar to the #include "fname"
directive when compiling in C), so that my
current .txt source file need not contain
literally all the little subprogams that I have already
written and debugged., and
3. maybe a few other features to speed up the
edit-test cycle.
Does such an editor allready exist?
.
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