SlickEdit
I have SlickEdit open on my desk pretty much 100% of the time, and have tons of macros I've written. This looks like a good place to share.
Yep, it's been an entire week of SlickEdit 2009 here at my desk. The only time I opened version 7 was to compare a macro. And, I've not had to change a macro for 4 workdays. Things I've had to learn: Stop backspacing over things you want to remove... word left and nuke to end of line avoids whatever the template editing is doing. Jumping to a bookmark no longer takes an enter key. Ctrl-J followed by the number or name and you're there Make friends with the file open tab and the search tab. I actually...
This is all like deja-vu all over again with the exception that this time around I'm using the editor full time. That's not to say we've been totally enamored of each other for the last 24 hours, but we've made up and met half-way... The fix-ups Let me talk about the problems and workarounds first. When I said yesterday that my macros compiled, that was true... every one of them... and that was a huge improvement because last go-around I had to dork around with most of them. I may have also said...
Maybe I'm unusual with my relationship with my editor, or maybe it's because I'm old school. I started out with WordStar, and all the hacks. Then there was Brief with all the macro and double-key goodness that allowed me to build in all the stuff I liked from WordStar. I even built in some stuff from WordPerfect back in that day. Then Borland bought Brief and that was ok until I was trying to use it in beta Windows '98 and '98 did NOT like Brief as a DOS-based app. My boss at the time said to go...
SlickEdit - Is there anything in there than VS hasn't got? Last paragraph updated with feature demo info and 15-day trial not 30. This question came across my blog, and I put it aside to think about it a bit because it's a good question. In my opinion, a code editor is one of the more personal things a developer uses. Sure we all have Visual Studio, and in today's version you can do tons of stuff with that thing. And... if you're just starting out, and VS is all you've seen, you probably would wonder...
SlickEdit 2008 Week 2 Even though there's been no disposition on the macro issue -- and it IS a big issue to code up, I'm sure -- I'm trying to use SE2008 as much as possible to get a feel for it in general. There's differences, and there's goodness, some things you just find accidentally. For instance, just now I was deleting characters using the backspace key, and was getting ready to type something uppercase, and whoa... shift-backspace puts characters back... cool... not sure if V7 did that or...
If you never saw Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, you're obviously much younger than me, and you missed a great TV show. He did a bit with Doc Severinsen where he'd ask audience members to name a song that they didn't think the band would know. Of course, Doc and the band would always play *something*, making up words as they went, and that was the really fun part of the bit. Then they'd turn it over to the audience member to sing their song, which was generally unusual, but not nearly as entertaining...
In my last post I discussed how HTML was being completed weirdly, and I posted that to the SlickEdit forum. I got a response back that I needed to pick up a couple patches... so that was cool... I hadn't thought of that, I'm sensitized to checking for updates on something I buy that's shrink-wrapped, but sort of expect the D/L stuff to be the latest... need to make a note to myself about that :) I Installed all that, and all the HTML tags are now opening and closing correctly.. woohoo... good job!...
I tried to use SlickEdit 2008 this morning for formatting my SilverlightCream post, and had problems. The posts are formatted as html and then I paste them into the GeeksWithBlogs edit area. Works grreat, I've done it enough I don't have to think much about the mechanics of it. I've got a macro I run that formats out my content section. My toolbars were gone, so I hooked up a new toolbar with one button, and attached it to the macro for the blog content. It didn't work... it didn't just have a problem,...
This is somewhat mildly embarrasing, but I just went from version 7.02 of SlickEdit to SlickEdit 2008 which is version 13.0 -- wow...6 versions behind! I've been using SlickEdit since (I think) version 1.0 when Brief took a dump in Windows 98 Beta and my boss told me to order two copies of this new editor. So why haven't I upgraded? Well... SlickEdit is almost TOO good at what it does. SlickEdit is (for it's editing functions anyway) essentially a big macro editor. They ship it with a ton of macros,...