HI all-

I've been working on Forth syntax coloring support for the editor
TextMate:

<http://macromates.com/>

and my initial version of a bundle has been accepted into the Review
section of the TextMate SVN.

The bundle builds heavily off the work already done by Goran Rydqvist,
David Kühling and
Anton Ertl with the gforth.el file for Emacs, but any errors and/or
omissions are solely my own.

The bundle supports the Gforth extensions found in gforth.el, and also
many of iForth's (my favorite Forth for the Mac) extensions. It
currently omits support for objects/OOF, and does not color Forth word
definitions, but these items will be added in the next week.

If you try it out, please let me know what your experience was like,
either positive or negative.

Best, Charles

Charles Turner wrote:

Charles,

Textmate looks like an excellent editor with a lot of features.

QuickEdit is a truly lean editor in comparison, but with far fewer
features (though it does support end-user-configurable color syntax
including bold and underline, no programming required). All times are
on an iMac G3 500 mhz OS X 10.3.9:

Item Textmate QuickEdit
---- -------- ---------

size 30 meg 0.9 meg (0.6 meg wo/ 3 pict resources)

time to Open 20 seconds < 1 second
5 meg text file

time to search 15 seconds < 1 second
for a word at
end of 5 meg
text file

-Doug

On Sep 5, 9:23 am, Doug Hoffman talkamerica.net> wrote:

QuickEdit crashes when I try to run it; PowerBook G4, OS 10.5.4. Do I
need to go back to 10.4?

Henry

Henry wrote:

I believe there are other users running OS 10.5.4. Does QE simply not
run at all or does the crash happen only during a specific operation?

-Doug

On Sep 7, 3:19 am, Doug Hoffman talkamerica.net> wrote:

QE won"t start up at all. I reverted to OS 10.4.11 where QE 6.5d4
works fine.

Interestingly, an older version of QE, 6.3, (which came with a
PowerMops distribution) works fine under 10.5.4.

Henry

Henry wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, Henry.