For editing XML, I just use Eclipse. It's default HTML editor will color hi light XML. But if you are not doing software development then Eclipse will not be something you already have. But other editors have language plug-ins will certainly have one for XML that will do colored syntax hi lighting and flags errors as you type.
As for not loosing work. Are you using any kind of version control system? You should be committing changes after some new improvement works, commit the change and write a note. Then you have a record of every file version and why you changed it. Put the data on Github of some other cloud service and if an asteroid lands on your house the data is still there. Onto of thatchy not set up abackupsystemthat runs every hound save the changes. There are any number that run on Linux. I keep filesI can't re-create on at least three redundant back backup locations. That is the minimum of the data is to survive some kind ofacizent like a lightening strike or a house fire or theft of the equipment. The version control stuff protects yo against yourself accidentally saving file after electing every line and then not noticing the error until the backup system have overwritten you good copies. and 1,000 other common user errors. I think almost all people doing software have moved housing Git from other version control systems. On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 4:47 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Greetings all; > > In search of something, anything that might give me a clue as to why > about a months work on custompanel.xml was killing linuxcnc, I installed > xmlindent, and xmlcopyeditor. > > Thinking I might find a clue in the re-indented code, I checked the man > page for xmlindent. But it has only a -option for an output file. So I > ran it. Never came back, so I added the -w option. Never came back. > > Opps, now I have a zero length file where it was 130+ LOC with an error > of some sort that let it load up to the final </pyvcp> before it puked > at column 2. I can get most of it back by dragging it in from another > machine with a similar setup but to restore what I had 20 minutes ago > will take a hell of a lot longer than I have left in me for tonight. So > then I tried xmlcopyeditor, thinking I could copy/paste into that. But > its apparently only for new creation as it does not accept a paste. > WTF?? > > So where can I find an xml editor that will let me copy/paste from the > Document.pdf, most of the stuff from pages 392 on to get an rpm meter, > on, fwd, rev leds, and append align.xml stuffs to that with added status > leds to show the current machine alignment state, and which will also > show any errors (cuz the Doc.pdf has quite a few errors of its own). > > And preferably not capable of destroying several weeks worth of work over > the last 5 years? > > I know this isn't your fault, none of you wrote this stuff, but this xml > bs needs warning labels because it can destroy anybodies sanity. > > Thanks everybody. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
