Favorite External Script Editors

[Laurie Seaside]

I wish some one could make an app for phones to continue doing Lslplus on the phones instead of being stuck to a computer.

[KT Kingsley]

Ew, coding on a six inch touch screen? Is that a thing? I must be getting too old for this lark.

(Necro, but so what?)

[Beggar Mayo]

Most of comments are between 2011 and 2012. Does somebody knows any actualization or new editors to work with them in 2020, viewers and computers x64, Windows 10, etc.? I ask this because I am learning scripting and saw this https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2018/03/new-lsl-editor-released/

Edited September 2, 2020 by Beggar Mayo
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[KT Kingsley]

I (sometimes) use Sublime Text, which has an LSL addon for it. It is a bit fiddly to install, but if you read through these forum threads:

and 

and the sublime text installation instructions, you should, eventually, get it going.

[Wulfie Reanimator]

5 hours ago, Beggar Mayo said:

Most of comments are between 2011 and 2012. Does somebody knows any actualization or new editors to work with them in 2020, viewers and computers x64, Windows 10, etc.? I ask this because I am learning scripting and saw this https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2018/03/new-lsl-editor-released/

I also use Sublime Text, but not the Builder's Brewery (=BB=) addon as it's too incomplete.

I'll copypaste what I said in the other thread linked by KT, slightly paraphrased:

I'm using Sublime Text 3. Last I checked, the BB addon isn't up to date with current LSL functions/constants. I would recommend a package called just "LSL", I have version 2.6.3 from github.com/Makopo/sublime-text-lsl (installed through Install Package, it works with Sublime Text 2 & 3).

Very short video: http://puu.sh/GoJGI/97730b2488.webm

Edited September 3, 2020 by Wulfie Reanimator

[animats]

I use "gedit" on Linux. It has a ".lsl" profile, and does some syntax coloring. I store the scripts locally, and do version control with git on github. The in-world scripts are just #include "filename.lsl" which is a Firestorm feature.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

The Context editor has an LSL syntax highlighter that is often updated by builders Brewery, it works well enough for me.

[Mollymews]

i typically use whichever code editor comes in the box

apart from things like Watch and Breakpoint, a thing I would quite like in the Linden viewer code editor is auto complete for API functions. events and reserved words. I can never remember the parameters and keep having to look them up on the wiki. The editor does have reserved word tool tips but the tooltip closes when we type

[DoteDote Edison]

I’m using Atom. It has all the qualities I need in a script editor.

Dark themes, syntax highlighting, find/replace, and autocomplete for LSL and - more importantly - my variable & custom function names.  Pleasant surprises are things like auto-quotes/brackets/parentheses; auto "", (), or [] a block-selection; block-selection indent in/out; {}, [], () pair highlight; and diff-pane; and the always-awesome mini-map overview to quickly scroll through code, show highlighted in-view/current line and highlight find/replace results.

For LSL:  Settings->Install->Search "LSL"->Install "language-lsl"... For other niceties, install: "minimap", "minimap-cursorline", "minimap-find-and-replace", and "split-diff"

Edited September 4, 2020 by DoteDote Edison
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