ASCII based editor for BaCon

[Pjot]

All,

Last days I have been working on an ASCII based editor. The intention is to embed it into the BaCon binary, for example in such a way that the editor mode can be invoked with a new '-e' switch (the 'e' for editor).

The editor includes syntax highlighting and it can process the BACKSPACE, DEL, PGUP, PGDOWN, HOME, END and RETURN keys. The ESC key will provide a small menu on the bottom of the screen.

It is inspired by the TermUx Android app, which allows a native compilation of BaCon on your Android device without any complicated fiddling. If BaCon also includes its own editor then it is independent from any external software to create programs.

Please make sure to fetch the latest BaCon from the fossil repo because of a fixed bug in CHANGE$.

BR
Peter

EDIT: improved code further.

Attachments:

editor2.bac.gz (3.85 KB)

[vovchik]

Dear Peter,

Thanks. It looks very useful - and compiles and runs fine using the latest beta.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[Pjot]

Thanks for testing vovchik!

Attached the latest standalone version.

This code now is embedded into the beta version of BaCon also. Usage:

# bacon -e program.bac

Hope you like it, and as usual, any ideas or improvements are welcome

Best regards
Peter

Attachments:

editor2.bac.gz (4.27 KB)

[bigbass]

Hello Peter

Very nice !
a much needed addition having the terminal color and a simple menu
to compile also

very practical while testing snippets

and all built in
later I need to test this in android too

Joe

[Pjot]

Thanks Bigbass,

Here is a screenshot of the embedded ASCII editor running on my Samsung Tab S3 tablet in Android 8 using the TermUx shell.

Best regards
Peter

Attachments:

[pebau]

How could I customize the colors used in the editor ?

BR,
Peter Bauer

[Pjot]

There's no support for setting a theme yet, but I am looking into it.

Best regards
Peter

[pebau]

I added the (t) key to toggle switch between normal and intense colors.
BR,
Peter Bauer


editor2.tar.gz (4.47 KB)

[bigbass]

Hello pebau

I like your choice of colors very much
I have a hard time with darker colors on a dark background
I would only suggest a minor thing for my eyes the red on the dark background
I almost cant see it if it would be possible a lighter red

Thanks for your work on this !

PS update the screen shot was the problem
I can see the red fine running the program
all is perfect



Joe

[Pjot]

Thanks Peter,

That is a very nice addition. I will add it to the embedded editor in BaCon as well.

As a side note, the colors are already very bright when using the standard Xterm instead of Kterm or Gnome-terminal. Apparently, the appearance of terminal colors depends on the type of shell...

Best regards
Peter