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Hawk

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Posted: 01:37pm 10 May 2023

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Who is responsible for the syntax highlighting within the editor in Mode 2?

Do they want the inconsistencies reported?

Mostly the ones I have found seem related to new commands in MMBASIC.

I love editting on the actual machine, and the editor makes that more enjoyable. I'm gradually getting more familiar with the cut'n'paste. It's different to all other systems that I've used. I grew up with Borland Turbo Pascal and Turbo C editors. I still have muscle memory of those editors.

There is also an issue when lines are longer than can be displayed on the screen. The editor does not wrap around or scroll sideways to allow these lines to be modified. I need to change back to Mode 1 to edit them. Is this intentional?

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Posted: 02:06pm 10 May 2023

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You can type EDIT 1 and that puts you automatically into mode 1 in the editor.

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Posted: 02:06pm 10 May 2023

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The editor highlights inbuilt commands and inbuilt functions. It does not and cannot highlight secondary words in commands (e.g. IMAGE in LOAD IMAGE). Nor will it highlight pseudo commands (e.g. CAT) which are converted into real commands (INC)

Quote There is also an issue when lines are longer than can be displayed on the screen.

This is how it is designed to work and again will not be changed.

Remember colour coding also works in mode 1 in the latest release
Edited 2023-05-11 00:07 by matherp

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Hi Hawk,

You can type EDIT 1 to start the editor in mode 1
I have pre-programmed this under function key 1

OPTION F1 "EDIT 1"+chr$(13)

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You can press F4 to jump from the command line to the editor in the current mode. EDIT n forces the editor to run in mode n, no matter what the current mode is.

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Hawk

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Posted: 02:33am 11 May 2023

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matherp said The editor highlights inbuilt commands and inbuilt functions. It does not and cannot highlight secondary words in commands (e.g. IMAGE in LOAD IMAGE). Nor will it highlight pseudo commands (e.g. CAT) which are converted into real commands (INC)

Quote There is also an issue when lines are longer than can be displayed on the screen.

This is how it is designed to work and again will not be changed.

Remember colour coding also works in mode 1 in the latest release

Thanks. The reason I asked is that I have seen some secondary words highlighted and some not, for the same command.

Thanks for the tip about the Edit 1. I was no aware of that, but I have upgraded to V5.07.07 and have not noticed syntax highlighting in Mode 1. Does it need to be enabled in the OPTIONs seperately to the Mode 2 syntax highlighting?

Your tips will make developing on the actual machine even more enjoyable.

Hawk
Edited 2023-05-11 12:36 by Hawk

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Hawk said Thanks. The reason I asked is that I have seen some secondary words highlighted and some not, for the same command.

Hawk

Some parameters are also keywords so they will always be highlighted.
The highlighting is system wide and not checked for context. That would be a heavy load on the pico.

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Hawk

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TassyJim said Some parameters are also keywords so they will always be highlighted.
The highlighting is system wide and not checked for context. That would be a heavy load on the pico.

Jim

Thanks Jim, that would explain the behaviour that I'm seeing.

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matherp said <snip>

Remember colour coding also works in mode 1 in the latest release

Peter, is there something special that I need to do to enable syntax colour highlighting in Mode 1?

I already have syntax colour highlighting working in Mode 2, but Mode 1 is still monochrome.

Oops...looks like I found the answer. Not quite what I expected.

When in Mode 1, "edit" runs in monochrome using the currently set font.

When in Mode 2, "edit" runs in syntax colour highlighting using the currently set font.

When in Mode 1 or Mode 2, "edit 1" runs in syntax colour coding in what I assume is the default font 1 (not the currently selected font).

When in Mode 1 or Mode 2, "edit 2" runs in syntax colour highlighting using the currently set font.

Is this behaving as expected? I was surprised that "edit 1" changes the font, but "edit 2" doesn't.

I was also surprised that "edit" in Mode 2 uses the OPTION setting for syntax colour highlighting, but "edit" in Mode 1 ignores the OPTION setting and give monochrome text.

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Edited 2023-05-16 21:59 by Hawk

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Quote is there something special that I need to do to enable syntax colour highlighting in Mode 1?

try "Option COLORCODE ON" to turn on Mode 1 Syntax Highlighting

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The code is doing what it should. In mode 1 only font 1 can be colour coded. In mode 2 any font will work as it is a colour mode. It doesn't change the font if already in mode 1 as you may want to use a different font (e.g. font 7) to get more characters on the screen.

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Martin H. said try "Option COLORCODE ON" to turn on Mode 1 Syntax Highlighting

I already have that OPTION set. The results I described are with OPTION COLOURCODE ON.

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Posted: 01:52pm 16 May 2023

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matherp said The code is doing what it should. In mode 1 only font 1 can be colour coded. In mode 2 any font will work as it is a colour mode. It doesn't change the font if already in mode 1 as you may want to use a different font (e.g. font 7) to get more characters on the screen.

Thanks for the confirmation Peter. I thought that I must've had a setting wrong.

Cheers,
Hawk.

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Hi @geoffg,

this information regarding "edit" vs "edit 1" in Mode 1 might be good to add the PicoMiteVGA User Manual in the section on the Full Screen Editor - Colour Coded Display Editor (P.16)

Cheers,
Hawk

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