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[kdulcimer]

I'm interested in getting ahold of the latest NicoEdit source code for another Linux distribution. Could somebody be so kind as to point my nose in the right direction?

Is there anywhere the NicoEdit source code is stored outside this forum?

[James C]

I believe you can get it here
http://bkhome.org/sources/alphabetical/n/nicoedit-2.5.tar.gz

His blog post concerning NicoEdit is here

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01270

I checked out your Beta release the other day, looks like a good base to build with.

HTH.

[kdulcimer]

Thanks for the link, but I get asked for a username and password.

You may have picked up a Beta release that wasn't quite ready yet.

[James C]

user - puppy

password - linux

HTH.

[kdulcimer]

Thank you very much, sir!

[BarryK]

Nicolas, the developer of NicoEdit, is busy with other things right now, so not currently keen to work on NicoEdit.

Version 2.5 fixed a problem, the PPLOG script did not open. It does not fix the shebang line '#!/bin/ash' that I had requested. Also, 2.5 does not have the menu option to manually choose color highlighting -- which 2.4 does have.

So, is anyone interested in examining 2.4 and 2.5 source and put the menu entry for syntax highlighting back in? -- because NicoEdit does not always autodetect the type of file.

Also, figure out how to add '#!/bin/ash' to the other shebang lines '#!/bin/sh', '#!/bin/bash'.

Then we will have say version 2.5.1.

[ttuuxxx]

[MU]

yes, ttuuxx is right concerning the comment, but you also must delete the closing */ lateron.

That comment removed the whole highlight-submenu.

And another function had to be uncommented:
def check_correct_lang (value : string)

This one will set the togglebutton in that menu, to show which language is currently active.

Then this function also must be called, after the correct language was detected.
I marked that part with a "//MU" comment.

At that place, I also added a "manual" check for "#!/bin/ash".
It will analyse the first line of the text.
By default, nicoedit uses a glib function to check the mimetype, but that one does not detect ash as shellscript.

I attach the patched source.

Note: to update also the version number in the about dialog to 2.5.1, you must edit in addition the file "wscript".

My attached arcive contains only nicoedit.gs, no other files.
So you need the original 2.5 source to compile it.

Mark

[ttuuxxx]

thanks mark I didn't try what I posted, I just posted what I found.

ttuuxxx

[MU]

I just see in comparison with 2.4, that also in the "tools" menu, the option to change the text and backgroundcolor was removed.

I attach a patched version based on my first patch, where it is reenabled again.

Mark

[MU]

thats was great ttuuxx, it encouraged me to have a look.
I think without your hint, I would have preferred to take some sleep instead

It is always easier, if people share the work, and you have brought me on the right track

thanks, Mark

[ttuuxxx]

Great mark I repacked it and changed the version number
ttuuxxx