Torchmodders
Modding => Tips & Tools => Topic started by: Wolven on August 18, 2014, 03:47:58 pm
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Using a Text Editor in combination with GUTS is a good practice. Using plain old Notepad is not the best option. You're better off choosing a more powerful editor, which can search and replace text across multiple files, has syntax highlighting and other useful features.
In this post I'll make a list of suggested text editors to use. I'll write up a short description for each later. Please post links to other good editors you know.
Editor list:
Notepad ++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/)
Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/)
Geany (http://www.geany.org/)
Vim (http://www.vim.org/)
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A good text replacement tool is Rename Master (http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/).
Has a nifty UI for selecting files, groups of files and various actions to perform on them (remove, replace, etc.)
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Look how old this thread is!!! :D
Recently I've started messing with Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor (VS Code).
https://code.visualstudio.com/
VS Code works on the different platforms. I think it has some potential. I like the "side by side" window view when comparing files. I wish it had a tab view, but I'm hoping that will be implemented soon.
I decided it needed an Ogre3d syntax highlighter. Fortunately, VS Code uses the same tmLanguage definitions as sublime. After poking around a bit I got the highlighting working for the material files.
If anyone else wants to try it out, I've attached a zip of the Ogre 3d extension I put together.
I got the tmLanguage definition from here: https://github.com/TheSHEEEP/ST-OgreScripts
I was thinking I could make a syntax highlighting extension for the various torchlight ascii files if there is interest.
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Whoah this is impressive Vkoslak! Thanks for this!
and Welcome Back!