Subject Re: What is the best suitable editor besides the built-in editor From Eric Wu <ericwuu@hotmail.com> Date Tue, 17 Aug 2021 09:50:52 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Mervyn Bick wrote: > On 2021/08/13 22:30, Eric Wu wrote: > >Desktop Properties -> Files -> Editor > >   > > Are you really unhappy with the built in Source Code editor?  Just > because you can replace the editor doesn't mean you have to. :-) > > Many text editors have been adapted to suit specific programming > languages.  The problem with adapting an editor to a programming > language is that someone has to sit down and make the adaptation.  It > is an unfortunate fact of life that there are simply too few dBASE > programmers to make the effort of making the necessary add-on for > something like Notepad++ worthwhile. > > Mervyn. Mervyn Bick wrote: > On 2021/08/13 22:30, Eric Wu wrote: > >Desktop Properties -> Files -> Editor > >   > > Are you really unhappy with the built in Source Code editor?  Just > because you can replace the editor doesn't mean you have to. :-) > > Many text editors have been adapted to suit specific programming > languages.  The problem with adapting an editor to a programming > language is that someone has to sit down and make the adaptation.  It > is an unfortunate fact of life that there are simply too few dBASE > programmers to make the effort of making the necessary add-on for > something like Notepad++ worthwhile. > > Mervyn. I am really happy with the built-in. however, due to the fact that dBase does not support unicode. it has issues with language drivers. I found that a .wfm can be display correctly in Notepad++ but showing garbled text with in dBase.