Allin et al,

In my playing around with various scripts in Julia, octave and now python, I’ve come up with a sort of “wish list” for gretl’s script editor. All of these refer to editing a script in one of those languages (e.g., via “script files > New script > Python script”), not via use of a “foreign” block in the main gretl script editor. In no particular order:

1. Currently it seems that only one foreign script can be open at once. Could subsequent scripts open in a new tab like what happen in the gretl script editor?
2. Related to this, if I’m editing a Python script and want to open another one, the file search dialogue defaults to looking for *.inp files. It’s easy enough to change that, but could that default to the type of script currently being edited?
3. It seems that only gretl scripts support smart indenting. Can that be generalized?

I realize that these things may all have different degrees of difficulty, and none are critical IMO. However it occurred to me that one potential way to expose more people to gretl could be as a front-end to one or more of these other languages. In my own case, as I was going through the process of setting up Atom/Juno for Julila, I thought “hey, why can’t I just use gretl’s Julia editor?”.

Cheers,

Peter

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