Thanks Neil. I”ll check out Atom. I have a MacOS, but do all my 4D work in Windows via Parallels. This kind of thing I need to do infrequently so I will just copy the file to the MacOS and view it there.
Tom Benedict > On Mar 26, 2020, at 14:34, Neil Dennis <npden...@greatext.com> wrote: > > I have played with Atom, it does allow adding 4D tags. Miyako sent out the > tags add on awhile back, maybe at a summit? Anyway you can add custom tags. > > > >> On Mar 26, 2020, at 3:22 PM, Tom Benedict via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> >> wrote: >> >> I’m very new to 4D Web programming and I’m trying to get comfortable with >> the tools. One thing that I’m challenged by is debugging HTML. >> >> For example, I’m getting an error on a web page that says “4DENDIF >> expected”, so I’ve traced the html in Chrome using the Developer Tools and I >> have identified the suspect html file. Now I am poring over that file in my >> text editor, matching the 4DIF to the 4DENDIF tags. This works, but it is >> tedious and time consuming and error prone. It would nice to have a tool >> that could format it automatically. >> >> I don’t know much about text editors, but I think what may be needed is a >> custom lexer. I use NotePad++, which seems to support adding lexers, but >> would be willing to consider changing to something else, if it could learn >> about 4D Tags. Is there an Text Editor which knows about 4D Tags? Does >> anyone know how to write a lexer for 4D Tags? >> >> Or maybe I’m making this too difficult? >> >> Tom Benedict >> > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
