[Gretl-devel] remarks on the script editor

Hello all, futurdorko has made some good suggestions in regard to gretl's built-in script editor lately, and I've made some changes in CVS. If people could beat on the new stuff and expose any bugs that would be great. The main thing is new handling of Tab and Enter. I've tried to make these keys behave pretty much as they do in, say, Emacs' C mode. Tab: when the Tab key is pressed at the beginning of a line (or in white space to the left of any non-space characters on a given line), instead of simply entering a Tab character, try to determine what the logical indent is for the current line, and enter enough space characters to go to that indent. Enter: when Enter is pressed, check the indentation of the line being completed, and if it's not correct, adjust it. So, for example, if you type loop 100<Enter> <Tab>if x > 3<Enter> <Tab>print "x > 3"<Enter> <Tab>else<Enter> <Tab>print "x <= 3"<Enter> endif<Enter> endloop<Enter> you get loop 100 if x > 3 print "x > 3" else print "x <= 3" endif endloop This assumes the default of 4 spaces per "Tab", but if you right-click in the editor window you get a configure option in the popup menu that lets you set this value from 2 to 8 spaces. You also get the option of turning off the "smart" Tab behavior if you don't like it; and if you have an existing script open in the editor you get the option of applying "canonical" indentation to the whole thing. Allin.