Clouds wrote:I've given ZBS a try for a week or so, coming from jEdit and wishing for LÖVE/Lua code and variable autocomplete, and a "run" button.
@clouds, thank you for the feedback!
> - When you have side-by-side documents/tab collections, the position of the dividing line (put another way, the size of each view) doesn't seem to save between closing/reopening ZBS. It resets.
Indeed; this is a
wxwidgets defect/limitation, but I may have a workaround for it. It if works, it should be available in a day or two.
> - I wish the autodelimiter package was smarter. Dreamweaver has the behavior I'm used to - only auto-typing the closing delimiter when its matching closer doesn't exist further on in the code. For example, using autodelimiter.lua, if I have "{ true }" and I first edit it to "{ true )" and then change the opening delimiter, it creates "() true )" instead of "( true )".
I considered that, but it makes things more difficult and non-obvious; for example, when you're typing "string.sub" inside parentheses in "print()", do I need to add the delimiter after "string.sub(" or not? There is already a closing one, but it's for "print", so you'd probably expect one more added; this requires tracking of balanced parentheses, but becomes even more difficult if you consider that the statement can span multiple lines. So, I opted for a simple and straightforward solution that covers majority of cases.
> You might suggest I improve it myself and submit a pull request, but I make no claims to be an expert programmer.
It wouldn't be the first response on my mind, but it's always welcome
. In this particular case, I can implement it myself if someone can come up with a proper logic that handles these situations (and is not too cumbersome).
> - Well, there's a "run+debug" button, but only a menu item+hotkey for plain "run". A GUI button for plain "run" - reasonable? Superfluous?
Reasonable. The main reason not to have it now is that I couldn't come up with a good icon for both running and debugging, so I decided to stick with one. I didn't really like the "bug" icon you can see in other IDEs. I'm experimenting with different icons, but if you can come up with a good one, let me know.
> - Although I've specified editor.usetabs = true and editor.autotabs = true, it still inserts spaces instead of a tab character when I indent.
This is because autotabs takes precedence and your file probably didn't have any tabs. You probably don't need autotabs; it's useful when you are editing someone else's code and want to preserve whatever indentation they are using (spaces or tabs). usetabs is useful when you need to force tabs for new files (or all files if no autotabs is specified). I think my mistake was that when both are specified and the file doesn't have any indentation, the value was set to "no tabs", whereas you'd expect it to be "use tabs". I just pushed a fix for this issue. If I misunderstood the situation, let me know.
Note that in either case these settings don't change anything for the current formatting/indentation. If you want that changed, just have "editor.usetabs = true" and then use Ctrl-I to re-indent the file.
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