Nevardon Editor [0.5.4]

• Editing (I would hope)
• Create/Open/Save Files
• Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete lines
• Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete multiple lines a once
• Goto Line
• Syntax Highlighting of
• Lua functions (print,write,pairs)
• Instructors (if, then, local, function)
• CC functions/Apis (peripheral,window.create.os.pullEvent)
• Highlighting (drag the mouse to highlight parts of a line / multiple lines and cut/copy/delete that way)
• Error Checking (Press Ctrl+E to show errors and turn line number red, does not automatically update)
• Settings such as scroll speed, syntax highlighting toggle, show line numbers
• Keeping tabs when creating new lines
• Support for Home, End, Delete, Page Up, and Page Down keys

• Help (User can right-click on a highlighted function and have information about that function displayed)
• Functionality is added, however still need to add help messages for most functions
• Create new type of popup to appear for help messages
• Have other look over help messages and examples, because Dunning-Kruger
• Multiple files loaded / Tabs
• New type of popup for opening files
• Undo/Redo
• Find & Replace (Find has been added but I still need to work on better popup positioning)
• Better auto indenting (add functions, brackets, parenthesis)
• Also remove indents if you type a word that would normally suggest a removal of an indent (such as else, elseif, end)
• Autosave/Backup
• Cosmetic settings (such as where/how line numbers are displayed, themes)
• Change color of text highlighting in the settings menu
• Settings such as Scroll Speed, What types of functions are highlighted, User created languages
• Increase efficiency.

• V0.1.0+
• Multiline comments/strings don't render properly if the start of it is offscreen

• Quick change: Change Ctrl+b to be the programs clipboard paste and ctrl+v will paste from your computers clipboard
• 0.2.1: Fixed a crash when adding a '.' after words such as false or nil, All parts of the gui will use the 'themeColors' tables, so have fun messing with that until I add in a theme changer.
• 0.2.2: Added Run, use the error check now highlights the erring line (still need to error check again to make it go away)
• 0.3.0: Highlighting!
• 0.3.1: Added basic settings menu, currently will not save settings, only 3 settings that are changeable.
• 0.3.2: Added error catching, fixed problem then with the find function.
• 0.3.3: Fixed cursor placement when highlighting, fixed problem when pasting from host clipboard, Added debug list to nevardon crash popup, crash popup will not display if the program is terminated.
• 0.3.4: Better support for patterns when using find.
• 0.4.0: Settings are now saved, Improved the Settings menu a bit, Scroll speed is now in settings.
• 0.4.1: Fixed crash when trying to highlight in areas where there was no text [Thanks LDDestroier]
• 0.4.2: Fixed empty lines not being cleared when all lines on screen are not rendered
• 0.4.3: Can use Page Up and Page Down buttons.
• 0.4.4: Fixed multiline highlighting
• 0.4.5: Fixed multiline highlighting (for real this time)
• 0.4.6: Increased performance, added multiline highlight setting
• 0.4.7: Added a rudimentary auto indent feature until I can work on a better one. When pressing enter to go the the next line, tabs will automatically be added based on the previous line. [Thanks Geforce Fan]. Added auto error checking. Added settings to toggle: the top bar, auto indent, auto tab, and auto error checking.
• 0.4.8 Added support for 'Home','End', and 'Delete' keys. Fixed problem with comment highlighting when using –]] to end a comment block. Added opening files directly when running the program (just like using the normal edit commend) [Thanks GopherAtl]. Added setting for bypassing the window API. [Thanks Geforce Fan]
• 0.4.9 Added basic non-advanced computer support: Cannot access the menu, however functions such as the text editor and popups work. Added a setting to hide the menu at the bottom and use left Alt to show it.
• 0.5.0 "Halfway to Nevar". Added help system, when right-clicking on a lua/cc function, a popup will appear and display information about that function. Fixed problem when trying to assign a color to a user created global table.
• 0.5.1 Added custom help popup, will be able to display examples of code using the help popup. Added text wrapping
• 0.5.2 Added update button to the settings menu. Changed some coding of the settings menu. Added text wrapping to the settings menu.
• 0.5.3 Added support for opening files when in a different directory. Fixed help popup overwriting the help table and causing a crash.
• 0.5.4 Fixed files that are opened not being closed by the program to allow editing outside of nevardon, Changed how the Home and End keys work

oeed, on 03 March 2015 - 07:04 AM said:

Wow, this looks really cool.

I love the colouring of the text colour strings.

DannySMc, on 03 March 2015 - 04:01 PM said:

This is awesome, I like so much about this, will give it a real test later, thanks!

would you mind uploading to my store? (not self-promoting, it's just easier for my sister to download it and use it and it helps me ;)/> thanks!

Quintuple Agent, on 03 March 2015 - 05:30 PM said:

oeed, on 03 March 2015 - 07:04 AM said:

Wow, this looks really cool.

I love the colouring of the text colour strings.

Thank you! :D/>

DannySMc, on 03 March 2015 - 04:01 PM said:

This is awesome, I like so much about this, will give it a real test later, thanks!

would you mind uploading to my store? (not self-promoting, it's just easier for my sister to download it and use it and it helps me ;)/> thanks!

and Thank you! :D/>
I see you going around asking everyone to put stuff on the store.
I will see what I can do.

DannySMc, on 03 March 2015 - 05:46 PM said:

Yeah I am asking everyone as I need to test page limits and I really would rather not insert loads of fake data :P/> and to be honest my sister uses the app store to download programs so she can use them, so it helps her as well :P/>

Quintuple Agent, on 03 March 2015 - 06:01 PM said:

DannySMc, on 03 March 2015 - 05:46 PM said:

Yeah I am asking everyone as I need to test page limits and I really would rather not insert loads of fake data :P/> and to be honest my sister uses the app store to download programs so she can use them, so it helps her as well :P/>

Well, it is uploaded now. I don't know if I will remember to update it on the store every time I update it here, but I will try to remember. It would be nice if you could use pastebin links instead of the file to be uploaded
Edit: Also needs to be able to update the description :(/>

Yeah I can add them :D/>

Geforce Fan, on 04 March 2015 - 11:10 PM said:

Sounds like it's better than LuaIDE. Will test, I can't right now because I'm on my laptop, and I don't have modded MC installed.
I'm not sure if I'll survive the journey up the stairs…

DannySMc, on 04 March 2015 - 11:27 PM said:

Geforce Fan, on 04 March 2015 - 11:10 PM said:

Sounds like it's better than LuaIDE. Will test, I can't right now because I'm on my laptop, and I don't have modded MC installed.
I'm not sure if I'll survive the journey up the stairs…

Use a computercraft emulator? I don't think I have used computercraft for minecraft in ages now :P/>

nevardon:698: attempt to index a nil value

LDDestroier, on 05 March 2015 - 12:06 AM said:

Flippin' cool!

LDDestroier, on 05 March 2015 - 12:06 AM said:

EDIT EDIT: found out more of the error! You can not select text with the mouse if the amount of lines does not scroll (exceed the screen size)

nevardon:1487: attempt to index a nil value

LDDestroier, on 05 March 2015 - 12:22 AM said:

New error.

Cause: selecting and deleting text that does not fit into the screen (selection scrolls offscreen)
Error:

nevardon:1487: attempt to index a nil value

LDDestroier, on 05 March 2015 - 12:43 AM said:

If you delete a selection that is partially offscreen, then the lines that were deleted still exist (it still says [7 ] or [8 ] {line numbers}) and the selection that was deleted still shows as being selected, even though those lines are deleted.

Yeah, it's kinda confusing with line numbers still showing up for lines that had been deleted.

Geforce Fan, on 06 March 2015 - 09:54 PM said:

Here's a bug. Open up something read-only and try to save, and it will error. You need to check for this before attempting to save, or save in a pcall.
Also exit's t is missing on a turtle & GUI elements are off centered–HOWEVER, you have made it work with a turtle, so there's that… but it won't work on a pocket computer(GUI elements are missing). I'd also recommend removing the top bar, as it just takes up space.

Also, since you haven't gotten error checking done, if you don't already know, to figure out if it has errors, load it as a string. If there's a second variable passed, it errored, and that's its error. Do NOT call it, just load it.

And: This does not auto-indent. For example if I press TAB then ENTER, it will not have the same indentation as the previous. This makes this unusable.

if fs.isReadOnly(file) then
  blah()
end

Geforce Fan, on 10 March 2015 - 12:57 AM said:

Do you mind if I modify & distribute this in my OS? It wouldn't work well natively, as administrators could not grant this app permission to read&write files that apps do not have sufficient privileges to.
I really love this editor now that there is auto-indentation. The fact that you can highlight things in it is absolutely fantastic.

Quintuple Agent, on 10 March 2015 - 01:23 AM said:

Geforce Fan, on 10 March 2015 - 12:57 AM said:

I've found a a bit of a bug. Wherever you check for fs.isReadOnly, you look for it returning TRUE specifically. If it returns, for say, a string, the program simply crashes. A fix for this is:

if fs.isReadOnly(file) then
  blah()
end

edit: that was actually a bug on my end, and I'd assumed you'd done something. I didn't look because the code is 3,000 lines.
Sorry.
And:
I noticed you're bypassing the window API. For an editor, it's probably not good practice to do this. It can always be optional, though!
Other than that, I love this. Keep up the good work!

GopherAtl, on 10 March 2015 - 02:23 AM said:

from the tone of your original post, and your chosen name, I didn't think you'd be working so actively on this after you originally posted it, I see I was wrong. You've made some nice improvements! A couple of things I've noticed, though: you don't support delete, home, and end; keyboard jockeys tend to use these quite a lot, so they're sorely missed. Your block comment support still has some odd issues, too; it doesn't seem to recognize –]] as ending a block comment, which it should, as it's a common idiom in lua to temporarily disable code by surrounding it with –[[ and –]], so you can easily re-enable it just by adding a - to the –[[, making it not a block comment anymore.

Anyway, great work so far, keep it up!

Geforce Fan, on 10 March 2015 - 01:46 AM said:

By the way, I saw something…not-english in the easter eggs. Is your native language not english?
It would explain some of the UIs. For example, which something does not exist, it presents you with "ok" or "create"
ok means that you understand, not that you give something permission. A better thing to say would be "Cancel" which means to stop doing something before its started.
Also: If you run: nevardon file it does nothing. You should check for args, and if there are args, open that file.

GopherAtl, on 10 March 2015 - 02:23 AM said:

I've noticed, though: you don't support delete, home, and end; keyboard jockeys tend to use these quite a lot, so they're sorely missed. Your block comment support still has some odd issues, too; it doesn't seem to recognize –]] as ending a block comment, which it should, as it's a common idiom in lua to temporarily disable code by surrounding it with –[[ and –]], so you can easily re-enable it just by adding a - to the –[[, making it not a block comment anymore.

Geforce Fan, on 10 March 2015 - 02:47 AM said:

He's nevardon improving it!

term.redirect(term.native())

Creator, on 10 March 2015 - 10:06 PM said:

My tipp:

use

term.redirect(term.native())

in the beging.

Believe it helps.

I use it all the time

Creator, on 10 March 2015 - 10:06 PM said:

My tipp:

use

term.redirect(term.native())

in the beging.

Believe it helps.

I use it all the time

Quintuple Agent, on 10 March 2015 - 10:53 PM said:

Creator, on 10 March 2015 - 10:06 PM said:

My tipp:

use

term.redirect(term.native())

in the beging.

Believe it helps.

I use it all the time

I already had the redirect in the code before, however since some were saying it might be needed if they use it in their os, it would break it, I added a setting to turn that on/off. If you look in the settings you will see bypass window API.

GopherAtl, on 10 March 2015 - 10:20 PM said:

Creator, on 10 March 2015 - 10:06 PM said:

My tipp:

use

term.redirect(term.native())

in the beging.

Believe it helps.

I use it all the time

if you mean for performance issues, yes, it helps, but you need to be aware in doing so you're breaking compatibility with multishell on advanced computers, and also compatibility with most multitasking OSs.

Geforce Fan, on 11 March 2015 - 09:04 PM said:

GopherAtl, on 10 March 2015 - 10:20 PM said:

if you mean for performance issues, yes, it helps, but you need to be aware in doing so you're breaking compatibility with multishell on advanced computers, and also compatibility with most multitasking OSs.

I don't think a lot of multitasking OSes use the Window API. Honestly, the window API is terrible in terms of sand boxing, considering you can evade it, and it's honorably inefficient.
But, since we're stuck with it, we shouldn't be circumventing it without adding an option to support it.

osStuff.dirColor

GopherAtl, on 11 March 2015 - 09:16 PM said:

snip

Geforce Fan, on 11 March 2015 - 11:30 PM said:

Bit of an odd bug, if you type exactly:

osStuff.dirColor

This crashes.

GopherAtl, on 11 March 2015 - 11:37 PM said:

true, because the whole point of sandboxing is not to trust programs you're running to be well-behaved. But a well-behaved programs that's not an operating system should not be redirecting to term.native() in the first place.

mkdir a
cd a
../nevardon t