[Hugs-users] Opening text editor

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

WinHugs actually supports a few TextEditors - Textpad, Notepad and
another I can't remember (Jot rings a bell...). However, it won't
offer to use TextPad unless you have TextPad installed, and similarly
with the other editor. It's not too hard to add more editors to
WinHugs, if you have a basic knowledge of C.

You should be able to use any editor using the Custom facility.

Thanks

Neil

2009/10/13 Irfon-Kim Ahmad <irfon at ambienautica.com>:
> Daniel Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Am Sonntag 27 September 2009 01:16:12 schrieb John Vitale:
>>
>>>
>>> I have downloaded and installed... and reinstalled winhugs to my computer..
>>> it works fine but the text editor that opens up by default is notepad...
>>> does winhugs come with a text editor of it's own?  If so what is it?  if
>>> not what would you suggest?  My university has a completely different text
>>> editor when i use it there and i would love to have that same thing for
>>> here.
>>>
>>
>> There must be a way to set the default editor. I don't know how WinHugs behaves, though it's probably the same as Hugs. The default default-editor there is what your EDITOR environment variable says (may be called slightly differently on Windows).
>> You can change that by
>>
>> :set -E/usr/bin/myeditor
>>
>> (on Windows, more likely
>> :set -E"C:\Programs and Applications\ed")
>>
>> in (win)hugs.
>> That isn't permanent, however, so you'd want to put that line into your ~/.hugs (~/.winhugs) file so that the editor is set on every startup.
>> Or change the environment variable to your preferred editor (a reasonable thing to do anyway).
>>
>>
>
> In WinHugs, you set the editor by going to File | Options and on the "WinHugs" tab, there's a section called "Editor".  It's actually really hard to miss.
>
> Given that the only built-in options it offers are "Notepad" and "Custom", it's safe to conclude that it doesn't ship with any other editor.  I use Programmer's Notepad 2, which is available as freeware.
>
> Someone has posted a syntax highlighting definition set for PN2 here:
>
> http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=14630
>
> I have not tried it myself.
>
>
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