Ultraedit as external text editor

On 14.08.2016 18:57, Glenn Jones wrote:

Hi, is anyone else successfully using "UltraEdit" as an eagle external

text editor?

I do use ultraedit as my main text editor, but I rarely need it for

eagle work. What need do you have for text editor in Eagle?

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

On 14.08.2016 18:57, Glenn Jones wrote:

Hi, is anyone else successfully using "UltraEdit" as an eagle external

text editor?

 

I do use ultraedit as my main text editor, but I rarely need it for

eagle work. What need do you have for text editor in Eagle?

 

 

I imagine the OP would be using it for writing ULP. Ideally it would have ULP language syntax set up and it would integrate with the tool such that when a ULP generated an error it would open UltraEdit at the right file with the cursor on the right line/column. I don't have UltraEdit so can't add anything on it's suitability for EAGLE ULP but if there is a syntax file available or it's easy to create your own language syntax, and if you can launch it via a command line and pass it parameters for the file, line number and optionally column then it should work.

Best Regards,

Rachael

On 15.08.2016 10:27, rachaelp wrote:

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

On 14.08.2016 18:57, Glenn Jones wrote:

Hi, is anyone else successfully using "UltraEdit" as an eagle external

text editor?

 

I do use ultraedit as my main text editor, but I rarely need it for

eagle work. What need do you have for text editor in Eagle?

 

 

I imagine the OP would be using it for writing ULP. Ideally it would have ULP language syntax set up and it would integrate with the tool such that when a ULP generated an error it would open UltraEdit at the right file with the cursor on the right line/column. I don't have UltraEdit so can't add anything on it's suitability for EAGLE ULP but if there is a syntax file available or it's easy to create your own language syntax, and if you can launch it via a command line and pass it parameters for the file, line number and optionally column then it should work.

Ah, of course. I do write ULP's in ultraedit but never bothered enter it

as external editor, simply because I didn't find the magic parameter to

pass line and col number. Now I found it and tested it.

The command line field works with:

uedit64 %F -l%L -c%C

If you use the 32 bit version, you should use uedit32 of course.

Thanks for bumping this functionality

On 15.08.2016 11:05, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

On 15.08.2016 10:27, rachaelp wrote:

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

On 14.08.2016 18:57, Glenn Jones wrote:

Hi, is anyone else successfully using "UltraEdit" as an eagle external

text editor?

 

I do use ultraedit as my main text editor, but I rarely need it for

eagle work. What need do you have for text editor in Eagle?

 

 

I imagine the OP would be using it for writing ULP. Ideally it would

have ULP language syntax set up and it would integrate with the tool

such that when a ULP generated an error it would open UltraEdit at the

right file with the cursor on the right line/column. I don't have

UltraEdit so can't add anything on it's suitability for EAGLE ULP but

if there is a syntax file available or it's easy to create your own

language syntax, and if you can launch it via a command line and pass

it parameters for the file, line number and optionally column then it

should work.

 

Ah, of course. I do write ULP's in ultraedit but never bothered enter it

as external editor, simply because I didn't find the magic parameter to

pass line and col number. Now I found it and tested it.

 

The command line field works with:

uedit64 %F -l%L -c%C

 

If you use the 32 bit version, you should use uedit32 of course.

 

Thanks for bumping this functionality

 

I forgot to mention that you can also tell ultraedit ro use "c" style

highlighting for .ulp files in the configuration window.

Add *.ulp to "'C'Files under" under "File types".

Hi Morten,

Do you have the ULP language syntax set up properly for UltraEdit so you

get all keyword highlighting etc?

I've still not found an editor I am 100% happy with for ULP, currently

using Atom but I haven't spent the time to get the language syntax set up

so it colours everything nicely.

Best Regards,

Rachael

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Morten Leikvoll wrote on Mon, 15 August 2016 10:08

I forgot to mention that you can also tell ultraedit ro use "c" style

highlighting for .ulp files in the configuration window.

Add *.ulp to "'C'Files under" under "File types".

Ok you just answered my question before I asked it Thanks!

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Morten Leikvoll wrote on Mon, 15 August 2016 10:08

I forgot to mention that you can also tell ultraedit ro use "c" style

highlighting for .ulp files in the configuration window.

Add *.ulp to "'C'Files under" under "File types".

Ok you just answered my question before I asked it Thanks!

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