[sc-users] Re: top five sclang pet peeves

[jamshark70@xxxxxx]

I'll add a couple of environmental concerns:

- IDE autocompletion includes only classes and methods. "thisProcess" and
"currentEnvironment"... nope, you're on your own.

- Lack of IDE extensibility. Full credit to Jakob and Tim -- it was a
massive job, and they did it beautifully, and probably part of the reason
why they were able to finish it was controlling the scope of the project to
(paraphrase from them) "a minimal but functional editor." But I think we
also knew that the IDE would reduce the level of support for scel, sced and
scvim -- the IDE is /de facto/ the only officially supported editor,* which
is at odds with the goal to avoid "unnecessary" features.

* That's a bold statement, but let's not kid ourselves. sced hasn't been
updated in a few years. Maybe 1 or 2 people have raised issues with scel,
but nobody is there to fix them. scvim might be faring better, but... wasn't
that the one that got moved out into a submodule? There's also Chris
Sattinger's sc-atom module.

My IDE wish list:

- Keyword autocompletion.

- Proper snippets, with multiple parameters.

- Git integration.

- The ability to extend the tokenizer / colorizing -- my live-coding dialect
looks awful in a standard code window, and there's nothing I can do about it
except go to scel and hack the styling regexes (and I don't have time).

hjh



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