Luke Rowley Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Hey So I just got a new PC and I wanted to install an external editor for LSL. I've been using Atom for the past years with an outdated extension and since the editor is now dead and won't be updated in the future, I started to look for alternatives. Sadly, it seems that I couldn't find something up to date with the current LSL functions. For VSCode for example, the extension were last updated 2021. Do you know an editor that has a up to date extension to code LSL? Otherwise, how hard would it be to fork one of the extension and try to update them? I never did such thing in the past, but I feel like this is something missing deeply for the community. Thank you! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfie Reanimator Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I've been using Sublime Text and the LSL extension by Makopo for years. It gets updated pretty frequently, it has the new Linkset Data functions in it, but not the Link Sound ones. It's pretty easy to update that extension by hand when feeling desperate, since it's format is simple. Sublime Text is a commerical product though, its trial will occasionally show you a "pls buy" popup when saving a file, about once every 1-2 days. It has no "buy forever" option. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Sublime Text is up to date. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 9 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said: It has no "buy forever" option. Does that mean you have to pay a new licensing fee every so often to make the "nagging" go away? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfie Reanimator Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 6 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said: Does that mean you have to pay a new licensing fee every so often to make the "nagging" go away? Yeah, it's an annual license if I recall. Pretty expensive if you just want a text/LSL editor. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love Zhaoying Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 10 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said: Yeah, it's an annual license if I recall. Pretty expensive if you just want a text/LSL editor. The in-viewer editor has worked for me for 16 years so.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primerib1 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 5 hours ago, Luke Rowley said: Hey So I just got a new PC and I wanted to install an external editor for LSL. I've been using Atom for the past years with an outdated extension and since the editor is now dead and won't be updated in the future, I started to look for alternatives. Sadly, it seems that I couldn't find something up to date with the current LSL functions. For VSCode for example, the extension were last updated 2021. Do you know an editor that has a up to date extension to code LSL? Otherwise, how hard would it be to fork one of the extension and try to update them? I never did such thing in the past, but I feel like this is something missing deeply for the community. Thank you! You can use any IDE from JetBrains, then install the LSL Highlighting / autocomplete plugin from here: https://github.com/clairem-sl/jetbrains-lsl-support 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primerib1 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 4 hours ago, Wulfie Reanimator said: I've been using Sublime Text and the LSL extension by Makopo for years. It gets updated pretty frequently, it has the new Linkset Data functions in it, but not the Link Sound ones. I think Makopo's extension for ST is auto-generated from Sei Lisa's kwdb, so as long as kwdb is not yet updated then Makopo's extension won't be updated as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rowley Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 Thanks everyone for the answers! I'm gonna try out Sublime Text then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Be Holder Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Another package for Sublime Text 4: https://github.com/TedHankey/LSL-Plus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Nozaki Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Sorry, all!! I haven't been SL for long time. I recently brought the latest kwdb list into sublime plugin and lslint binaries. Just search plugin for "LSL" and re-install it if you have already disposed it. Binaries are bundled in the plugin. I'll look around similar plugins and try to catch up to recent chenges in sublime. Thank you. Makopo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CossetteAlarie Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 I made an inexpensive Scintilla based editor that has a Chromium panel to link to LSL wiki pages. Like you can easily get the associated LSL wiki page for a function in your code. It's on my MP. It's current as of today. Currently troubleshooting an issue with spaces in script names.. I think at least Firestorm isn't properly quoting arguments, but i need to go the source code to see. Is that a known issue? Click "edit" button on script editor doesn't seem to work if there's a space in the script name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 12 minutes ago, CossetteAlarie said: Click "edit" button on script editor doesn't seem to work if there's a space in the script name. That's an issue with how the editor variable is set-up in your configuration. TL;DR, the 'ExternalEditor' debug setting needs to have double-quotes around the %s to avoid the issue, for example: /usr/bin/st vim "%s" on my linux setup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CossetteAlarie Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 7 minutes ago, Quistess Alpha said: That's an issue with how the editor variable is set-up in your configuration. TL;DR, the 'ExternalEditor' debug setting needs to have double-quotes around the %s to avoid the issue, for example: /usr/bin/st vim "%s" on my linux setup Thank you for that, I appreciate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CossetteAlarie Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 (edited) On M$ Windows the "easy" way to tell users is to put "C:\Windows\explorer.exe" "%s" (presuming they installed the OS on the C drive and .lsl is associated with the editor, otherwise it can be complicated to explain to a user on these systems. My installer doesn't need admin for the install so the program ends up in AppData in the user account. Trying to explain to a user to find AppData is a nightmare waiting to happen lol.) Edited July 17, 2023 by CossetteAlarie installer not installed 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexx Ohmai Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) LSL Tools extension for VSCode is also pretty up to date, I haven't had any issues using linksetdata ect through it.https://github.com/Minuit-Ferina/vscode-lsl though you don't really need the repo link cause you can search and install it through VSCode's extension panel also lol. (edit: i have pre-release version installed so there's also that lol.) Edited July 18, 2023 by alexx Ohmai 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CossetteAlarie Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 1 hour ago, alexx Ohmai said: LSL Tools extension for VSCode is also pretty up to date, I haven't had any issues using linksetdata ect through it.https://github.com/Minuit-Ferina/vscode-lsl though you don't really need the repo link cause you can search and install it through VSCode's extension panel also lol. (edit: i have pre-release version installed so there's also that lol.) I'll try it again. I searched for LSL in extensions in VSC and it showed no results. It's free but for like 10 bucks you can link functions, etc to the LSL wiki pages. It's just convenient though, you can do it manually too. ATM It seems the quote bug only exists in Firestorm. Users with SL viewer don't noticed that issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primerib1 Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 On 7/18/2023 at 8:41 AM, alexx Ohmai said: LSL Tools extension for VSCode is also pretty up to date, I haven't had any issues using linksetdata ect through it.https://github.com/Minuit-Ferina/vscode-lsl though you don't really need the repo link cause you can search and install it through VSCode's extension panel also lol. (edit: i have pre-release version installed so there's also that lol.) Oooo Minuit Ferina, I know her! She's an amazing scripter. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasterscan Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 On 7/17/2023 at 1:12 AM, CossetteAlarie said: I made an inexpensive Scintilla based editor that has a Chromium panel to link to LSL wiki pages. Like you can easily get the associated LSL wiki page for a function in your code. It's on my MP. It's current as of today. Currently troubleshooting an issue with spaces in script names.. I think at least Firestorm isn't properly quoting arguments, but i need to go the source code to see. Is that a known issue? Click "edit" button on script editor doesn't seem to work if there's a space in the script name. Even in sl scripts sometimes I have to insert %20 where a space would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primerib1 Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 On 7/17/2023 at 8:06 AM, CossetteAlarie said: On M$ Windows the "easy" way to tell users is to put "C:\Windows\explorer.exe" "%s" (presuming they installed the OS on the C drive and .lsl is associated with the editor, otherwise it can be complicated to explain to a user on these systems. My installer doesn't need admin for the install so the program ends up in AppData in the user account. Trying to explain to a user to find AppData is a nightmare waiting to happen lol.) Finding AppData is easy. 1) Open Explorer 2) Browse to %APPDATA% And if a user ever install Windows to something other than C:, I'd assume they're tech-savvy enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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