WE ARE SICK OF THIS .plist EDITOR NEEDED

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Re: WE ARE SICK OF THIS .plist EDITOR NEEDED

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You need to define "aballturret" somewhere...
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At college we used TECO. That made vi seem friendly. (Although, personally, I would rather pluck out my own eyeballs with a rusty fork than go back to using vi full time.)

Then one day The Good Lord looked down on us lowly programmers and gave us WordStar 3. A word processor that could be configured to be a COBOL editor. Life was Good for a few years, then the Devil saw what was going on and gave us WordStar 2000 and that was the end of that.

... many years and programming languages and many op/syses later ...
commanderxairon wrote:
we are utterly sick of gedit (notepad like) for editing plists
Ee, kids today, eh? Don't know they're ruddy born. Give t' ungrateful little beggars a WYSIWYG editor and they don't know what to do wi' it. When I were a lad, oor Dad give us DDT to bugger wi' saved game files, and we were 'appy. 'Appy, I tell thee.
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Re: WE ARE SICK OF THIS .plist EDITOR NEEDED

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SandJ wrote:
commanderxairon wrote:
we are utterly sick of gedit (notepad like) for editing plists
Ee, kids today, eh? Don't know they're ruddy born. Give t' ungrateful little beggars a WYSIWYG editor and they don't know what to do wi' it. When I were a lad, oor Dad give us DDT to bugger wi' saved game files, and we were 'appy. 'Appy, I tell thee.
TGHC isn't around, so please don't derail this thread with "when I was young, we had to (...) uphill - both ways" jokes.
You know those who, having been mugged and stabbed, fired, dog run over, house burned down, wife eloped with best friend, daughters becoming prostitutes and their countries invaded - still say that "all is well"?
I'm obviously not one of them.
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Cmdr. Maegil wrote:
TGHC isn't around, so please don't derail this thread with "when I was young, we had to (...) uphill - both ways" jokes.
It wasn't meant as a joke, just a roundabout way of saying gedit is a usable - if poor - editor.

TGHC?
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You know those who, having been mugged and stabbed, fired, dog run over, house burned down, wife eloped with best friend, daughters becoming prostitutes and their countries invaded - still say that "all is well"?
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SandJ wrote:
just a roundabout way of saying gedit is a usable - if poor - editor.
If it had regex matching and split panes it would do everything I want, but as is it's pretty good...
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Notepad ++ works really well for all my oxp editing/writing. And it's FREE! :D
Take an idea from one person and twist or modify it in a different way as a return suggestion so another person can see a part of it that can apply to the oxp they are working on.


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I tried editing plists in an XML editor... I didn't like it. :x
So, I'm back to Gedit, but I may need to try Notepad++
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commanderxairon wrote:
*** ****** can anyone tell me why this FU.. THING doesnt run?

[spoiler]
<dict>
<key>v4li4nt-pl4yer</key>
<dict>

.....

</dict>
</plist>[/code][/spoiler]
The bold part means the player (not pl4yer) version of the v4li4nt won't work. Don't know what else doesn't work..
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Now, if someone with the know-how could make an Openstep plugin for Notepad++, that would be good.
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SandJ wrote:
At college we used TECO. That made vi seem friendly. (Although, personally, I would rather pluck out my own eyeballs with a rusty fork than go back to using vi full time.)

Then one day The Good Lord looked down on us lowly programmers and gave us WordStar 3. A word processor that could be configured to be a COBOL editor. Life was Good for a few years, then the Devil saw what was going on and gave us WordStar 2000 and that was the end of that.
Joe can be invoked as /usr/local/bin/jstar, however I'm not sure if that's close enough for your use, but I've used joe, & joe is good.
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SandJ wrote:
When I were a lad, oor Dad give us DDT to bugger wi' saved game files, and we were 'appy. 'Appy, I tell thee.
Lol.

I just clicked on that link and found a site referring to the CP/M debugging tool. CP/M! Now that takes me back, way back to 1986 when I spent my first ever pay packet on a brand new Atari ST computer. It came with several floppy disks, one of which was for a CP/M Emulator. It was useless then too! :shock:
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drew wrote:
£4,500 though! :shock: <Faints>
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CP/M - wow! Ah, my Commodore 128 running in CP/M mode...

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