Cooledit Programmer's Editor

fopetesl · 05-09-2007, 03:47 AM

I installed Cooledit 3.17.17. Looks real cool.
However the readme file has garbage? characters which seem to indicate a font/language mismatch. e.g.

Code:

>1m[DESCRIPTION>[0m

even looks a bit like html. Makes it very difficult to read.
I would very much like to patch in syntax highlighting for Assembler but cannot decipher the instructions as to how to do so

osor · 05-09-2007, 11:24 AM

Those are escape sequences to embolden text or such. If your text reader cannot display these correctly, I suggest you either use a different one (e.g., “less -R README.txt”) or redirect the output from a pager which ignores such sequences.

fopetesl · 05-09-2007, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by osor

Those are escape sequences to embolden text or such. If your text reader cannot display these correctly, I suggest you either use a different one (e.g., “less -R README.txt”) or redirect the output from a pager which ignores such sequences.

I can't argue with you there but it's odd that CoolEdit itself can't interpret correctly since it's the Help file

osor · 05-09-2007, 11:48 AM

It is odd. Perhaps there is a setting to enable ANSI color escape sequences or VT100 escape sequences to be interpreted (I’m not really sure as I don’t have any experience with CoolEdit itself). It seems like this help file is little more than a man page (which customarily have a “DESCRIPTION” heading in bold). Perhaps you can tweak the troff options in /etc/man.conf to suppress color output altogether.

osor · 05-09-2007, 11:51 AM

Also, did you look at the file through “less -R”?

fopetesl · 05-09-2007, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by osor

Also, did you look at the file through “less -R”?

Will try that but I note that it uses the same? code as Midnight Commander and that works just fine. Will read it through that methinks. More