On Sunday 17 March 2019 11:39:05 Jon Elson wrote: > On 03/17/2019 09:15 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 13:51, Nicklas Karlsson > > > > <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do not know if I like emacs but it seems to stick forever. > > Emacs is a "heavyweight" editor. It pulls in so many > language support libraries that it takes a long time to > load. It used to take a whole minute on my CNC computer a > long time ago. That one was very short on memory, but was > good enough for the old EMC2. Much better now, but still a > few seconds delay to start. > > > Doesn't appear on the LiveCD as far as I can see. vi is there... > > > > This isn't about editors. This is about changes we can make in the > > LinuxCNC sample configs _only_ to make the user experience a bit > > better.
I think it IS about editors, making sure the experience of using it impresses the user that this IS a professional cnc even if its free. > > > > And clicking "Edit G-code" and having nothing happen is not good. Agree 100%. > Hmm, maybe during install the script could look for what > editors are actually installed and select one of them to be > used by the Edit button. > > Jon Thats a great idea, Jon. And making the script smart enough to know the difference between a good editor and a potential disaster is an exercise for the script author. Probably better to give it a list of known good editors, best to safely usable, with nano at the bottom of the list, not because its dangerous but because of its ugly face, its otherwise a good editor. Heck, you can even train it to scroll a line at a time. That half a screen jump bothers my concentration. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
