On Sunday 17 March 2019 13:49:33 Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Or maybe upon first use in LinuxCNC a box would pop up to allow the > choice of available editors. > Thats not a bad idea, but why limit it to first run. Its proably about the same amount of coding to add a "choose editor" to the file pulldown.
That way the new user could try whats available and settle on something that works for them. But since names are arbitrary, how do we limit the choices presented to "real" editors? That could be a conundrum. Could the file utility help to ID the candidates for the list shown? IDK, never tried it for that. But I think some effort should be made along that line just to protect the new bee from his own ineptitude until he's more familiar with linux. > On Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 11:18 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers 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
