I chatted a few nights ago with someone (Geert?) on irc about recommended environments for tinkering with GnuCash source, specifically the scheme report code and some things I want to experiment with regarding menus.
Geert recommended trying Eclipse but I had some trouble (as a very casual programmer) getting the environment working. Yesterday I made some progress, so I wanted to share. I had already found an existing wiki page (linked from nowhere in the wiki but indexed by Google) so I added a section with my hints about making it work in Ubuntu (and presumably Debian)... http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Eclipse Sadly, the Eclipse editor isn't quite as good as gedit for code-highlighting of .scm files, but it's not terrible. I'm probably missing a lot, though, being a raw beginner. Does Eclipse do code-folding when it knows how? Is that even possible for Scheme? Can it create jumps to notable places in the code to jump around easier? I haven't even started looking at the C sources... I also haven't played with the svn integration... ... if anyone else is interested please reply here or use that wiki page (and/or its talk page) to share suggestions. Thanks! _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
