BETA: SciTE v5x & lua Dynamic_include and "Smart" AutoComplete for Vars/UDFs/Abbrevs

[donnyh13]

Thanks Jos! The AutoComplete and Ctrl+Backspace work Great! 👍

Edited October 16, 2023 by donnyh13

[donnyh13]

Hi again Jos, not sure if you are done working in the autocomplete for multiple selections fix or not, but I hit a few hiccups.

When auto completing a Macro (@error) for multiple selections, the selections are lost, except the main cursor.

When the Auto Indenter does its thing, the multiple selections are lost also, such as after entering "Case" and pressing enter to go down a line. (This one may be too complex to fix? It's not a big deal.)

Thanks again!

[Jos]

10 hours ago, donnyh13 said:

When auto completing a Macro (@error) for multiple selections, the selections are lost, except the main cursor.

When the Auto Indenter does its thing, the multiple selections are lost also, such as after entering "Case" and pressing enter to go down a line. (This one may be too complex to fix? It's not a big deal.)

That indeed makes sense now and those separate sections need the same logic as the Dynamic include part. will have a look when time permits.   

EDIT: The @macro part is using the standard SciTE behavior, hence the issue. I will add and property (autocomplete.multi=0 / 1) to set the behavior as defined for LUA which then fixes the Macro part: 

int editor.AutoCMulti -- Change the effect of autocompleting when there are multiple selections.

Also send a proposal to the SciTE interest group to add this in the standard core of SciTE.

Edited October 17, 2023 by Jos

[donnyh13]

11 hours ago, Jos said:

will have a look when time permits

Thanks Jos.

[Jos]

On 10/17/2023 at 1:51 AM, donnyh13 said:

When the Auto Indenter does its thing, the multiple selections are lost also, such as after entering "Case" and pressing enter to go down a line. (This one may be too complex to fix? It's not a big deal.)

To check where this I started disabling our custom lua scripts and guess what: When they are all disables and I do an Enter on tabbed lines which are in multiselect mode, the second line gets also indented and multiselect is gone.   

Edited October 19, 2023 by Jos

[donnyh13]

48 minutes ago, Jos said:

the second line gets also indented and multiselect is gone.

Wow, a bug in Scite itself? or a purposeful feature do you think?

[Jos]

This settings on (1) will cause the issue in standard SciTE:

indent.automatic=0
### only when defined will override previous setting for this language
indent.maintain.????=0

 

[Jos]

I figured out how to disable the internal autoindent just for au3 and fully do the indentation in lua which then also works with multiselections..  will publish it when I've done some more testing in a couple of days.

Edited October 19, 2023 by Jos

[Andreik]

I just updated my SciTe to version 5.3.8 and there are so many changes. It's a little bit overwhelming but I will get used soon. However I have few question, maybe some are dumb questions but it's still better to ask in order to properly understand what's new. First of all I managed to disable dynamic includes because I like to control by myself what and where is included. I like the visual indicator for modified lines that are not yet saved but is there any chance to get rid of the orange underline of everything that it's not yet saved? I don't save very often and my eyes suffer to watch the entire code being underlined. And what about the red/orange arrow? Sometimes is at caret position but sometimes it's not so I am not really sure what indicates. Probably I will have more question after I use this version a little bit longer.

One more question. If I try to delete a character encoded as UTF8 using backspace it looks like one byte used to store the character is stripped and in the editor remains something like that. Is there a way to prevent this behavior?

 

Edited October 19, 2023 by Andreik

[paw]

5 hours ago, Andreik said:

If I try to delete a character encoded as UTF8 using backspace ...

 

Does SciTE say the file is encoded as UTF8 under File -> Encoding? Because I have issues with files having the wrong encoding with the new SciTE sometimes

[Jos]

9 hours ago, Andreik said:

First of all I managed to disable dynamic includes because I like to control by myself what and where is included.

Understood, but that means that you also disabled the smart AutoComplete part and all will work as before all changes. Maybe I need to consider making the auto add includes optional ?! 

 

9 hours ago, Andreik said:

I like the visual indicator for modified lines that are not yet saved but is there any chance to get rid of the orange underline of everything that it's not yet saved?

That is controlled by change.history. Set it to 3 for what you want and restart SciTE:

Quote

change.history marker.reverted.to.origin marker.saved marker.modified marker.reverted.to.modified indicator.reverted.to.origin.insertion indicator.reverted.to.origin.deletion indicator.saved.insertion indicator.saved.deletion indicator.modified.insertion indicator.modified.deletion indicator.reverted.to.modified.insertion indicator.reverted.to.modified.deletion

The change.history property controls whether changes to the document (insertions, deletions, saved changes, ...) are shown as margin markers or indicators within text. It is a set of bit flags (1=enable, 2=margin markers, 4=indicators in text) so the most likely settings are 0=disabled; 3=enabled with margin marks, or 7=enabled with margin markers and in-text indicators. There is a default set of visuals for this feature but they may be altered with the marker.* and indicator.* properties. As change history can only be enabled when the file is in its original state, this property only takes effect when a file is loaded.

 

9 hours ago, Andreik said:

One more question. If I try to delete a character encoded as UTF8 using backspace it looks like one byte used to store the character is stripped and in the editor remains something like that. Is there a way to prevent this behavior?

 

Pretty sure that is a glitch in the LUA code only removing one of the 2 characters of a Unicode character, so will have a look to check that... thanks for reporting!  

Edited October 20, 2023 by Jos

[Jos]

8 hours ago, Andreik said:

One more question. If I try to delete a character encoded as UTF8 using backspace it looks like one byte used to store the character is stripped and in the editor remains something like that. Is there a way to prevent this behavior?

I have tried this with the latest version of the LUA scripts and can't get it to go wrong yet. Do you have an example scriptfile for me so I can compare the result you get?
Also try the latest version of the LUA scripts which are regularly updated in SciTE_changes_Dynamic_Includes_LUA.zip

[mLipok]

3 hours ago, Jos said:

Understood, but that means that you also disabled the smart AutoComplete part and all will work as before all changes.

Including also suggesting constant names and enumerated values from INCLUDE, files which is really awesome feature.

3 hours ago, Jos said:

Many I need to consider making the auto add includes optional ?! 

sounds reasonable

Edited October 20, 2023 by mLipok

[Andreik]

1 hour ago, Jos said:

Maybe I need to consider making the auto add includes optional ?!

It would be awesome. I like the idea of AutoComplete and dynamic includes but I have some large projects with multiple files being included in a logical order and I don't want to mess anything when I have to modify something in the code by adding some automatic includes.

1 hour ago, Jos said:

Pretty sure that is a glitch in the LUA code only removing one of the 2 characters of a Unicode character, so will have a look to check that... thanks for reporting!  

It works as expected when the unicode characters are between quotes. I suppose this is by design since there is not reason to have such characters in AutoIt syntax if they are not part of a string.

$a = "ăăăăă"       ; <-- delete with backspace works good
ăăăăă              ; <-- this doesn't

Edited October 20, 2023 by Andreik

[Andreik]

4 hours ago, paw said:

Does SciTE say the file is encoded as UTF8 under File -> Encoding? Because I have issues with files having the wrong encoding with the new SciTE sometimes

Yes. The file is encoded as UTF8.

[mLipok]

35 minutes ago, Andreik said:

I have some large projects with multiple files being included in a logical order and I don't want to mess anything when I have to modify something in the code by adding some automatic includes.

I must to say I hit the same or at least similar problem at the begining of this "Dynamic LUA" project (June 5, 2022)
And I still have some inconveniences, but I noticed that it is worth dealing with them on an ongoing basis, with the goal of maintaining all other benefits.

And finally I was able to get through it and work more efficiently with the new Dynamic LUA features.
 

Currently, from time to time, I have added such fragments at the top of the script:

Quote

#Region ; *** Dynamically added Include files ***
#include <KK_PDNKW_Constants.au3>                            ; added:09/26/23 12:39:03
#include "z:\!!!_SVN_AU3\UDF_ML\_ML_RegExp.au3"              ; added:09/26/23 12:39:48
#include "z:\!!!_SVN_AU3\UDF_Forum\mLipok\ErrorLog.au3"      ; added:09/26/23 12:40:45
#EndRegion ; *** Dynamically added Include files ***
 

 

However, this only tells me that something is still wrong with my code. This forces me to reflect and fix the code.
Optionally, I remove this extra line of code and recheck with Au3Check.exe this particular INCLUDE and entire main program code.

Of course, I can see these redundant/unexpected changes thanks to the SVN version control system, which I use to check what has changed before compilation.
But this habit (checking changes before compilation) is not caused by Dynamic LUA in SciTE, but by generally understood good practices that I introduced much earlier.

Edited October 20, 2023 by mLipok

[Andreik]

For new projects dynamic features of SciTE it's like the bread from heaven but I have this mature project with thousands of lines of code split around twenty files and I don't really have to make any major updates just small changes and I don't want to break anything by adding things dynamically. I might organize this project better in the future but for now it is what it is. A fast way to toggle on/off dynamic includes would be greatly appreciated.

Edited October 20, 2023 by Andreik

[mLipok]

 

19 minutes ago, Andreik said:

For new projects dynamic features of SciTE it's like the bread from heaven

I agree.

19 minutes ago, Andreik said:

I have this mature project with thousands of lines of code split around twenty files 

just like me

19 minutes ago, Andreik said:

I don't really have to make any major updates just small changes 

  I do small changes in my old UDF's every day, and create new projects related to my old UDF every days.

19 minutes ago, Andreik said:

I might organize this project better in the future but for now it is what it is.

In my case: I start this project 3 years ago..... most huge jobs done, still a zillion small things to do.

19 minutes ago, Andreik said:

A fast way to toggle on/off dynamic includes would be greatly appreciated.

I agree.

EDIT:
by the way.
Thank you for all your comments, I hope my comments will not be perceived as aggressive, but as a case history for others.

Edited October 20, 2023 by mLipok

[mLipok]

14 minutes ago, mLipok said:

32 minutes ago, Andreik said:

I have this mature project with thousands of lines of code split around twenty files 

just like me

small correction I have 128 specific UDF's + about 30 my public available UDF's + I use UDF's like: WD, UIA, LibreOffice, .... 

So I think that this DYNAMIC LUA feature in SciTE4AutoIt3 are quite well tested practically every day for over a year.
This does not change the fact that there are still some things to do and new things will probably appear all the time.
It's just the nature of things.

note:

Please still treat my statement as a case story.
And of course, thanks from my side for reporting the problem.

Edited October 20, 2023 by mLipok

[mLipok]

@Jos another issue:
 

If 1 Then
    If 1 Then
    EndIf
EndIf

Please place cursor at [3,1] and press enter

I get this:
 

If 1 Then
    If 1 Then

    EndIf
    EndIf

instead expected:

If 1 Then
    If 1 Then

    EndIf
EndIf