I use clion for quite a while now and in the past there was a dedicated window which shows all cmake variables/options for the current projet. Here you could see and change all variables/options. It was very convenient. I guess they changed this now and you have to open the CMakeCache.txt file and change the options in this file. But this file is so big it is very annoying to search for the option you want to change. It is even more annoying when you don't know the exact name of the option. So, my feeling is, there should be better way to list at least all options. So, is there a better way or do I have to go through the hassle and search for the options in the CMakeCache.txt?
As mentioned by #Maxim Banaev in the comments, there is a feature request on youtrack. Quoting from the discussion thread:
we hope to deliver this feature this year. Hopefully, in 2022.2 release
We've added the editor to CMake settings in EAP3 link and more updates for it are yet to come in EAP4 and EAP5.
See the interactive dialog applications that come bundled with CMake, ccmake (a curses-based terminal gui), and cmake-gui (a gui application). Both provide user-friendly interfaces to edit the CMake cache variables, including appropriate GUI inputs based on the cache variable's type (string, bool, path, filepath, etc.), and enable hide/show of variables that are marked as being for advanced usage scenarios. They also provide the option to group options by common prefixes of cache variable names and to visually expand and collapse those groups.
I've recently developed a domain-specific language using flex and bison. I would like to create a user interface for editing script files using this language. In particular I would like to have common functionalities such as file handling, menus, buttons, syntax highlighting, error checking and so on. Do you know any tool which can be used to develop such kind of application? I would prefer one which can give me a prototype rapidly.
such as file handling, menus, buttons, syntax highlighting, error
checking
I think that file handling, menus, buttons and highlighting are your least concerns. What you call "error checking" on the other hand. That can be a tough nut. I will try to give you some pointers to how you can (in a somewhat primitive manner) detect errors on the fly as the user inputs source code in the editor.
I assume you wish for something like Eclipses (for java at least) real time analysis of the written code in the editor? I'm not familiar with how Eclipse work internally but this is probably done by some pre-compilation process that processes all source code again and again as you change it.
One way to prototype this (and indeed build a non-prototype as well) would be to use Flex and Bison, and I notice you already is familiar with these tools. You can build you grammar and create action code for all interesting parts so you can find syntax deviations fairly easy. After this you make your editor run the flex and bison generated c-code as the user writes the source code in you IDE and have some way of displaying the output. Either in a terminal-like status window or directly in the text-editing field (as Eclipse does) (the latter case is probably a pain to build but by no means impossible and would give you IDE a professional touch).
Suppose you would like to build an IDE for ADA 95 the following Flex and Bison (Actually Lex and Yacc) code could help you do exactly this (it's a decent syntax analyzer that reports errors (what and where)):
http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95lrm/lexer9x.l
http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95lrm/grammar9x.y
Hope this helps.
Edit:
to have cool error highlighting and such in the text-editor field of your IDE you could let your bison generated syntax analyser generate something thats easy to parse, like XML, that contains the type of error and where it lies (row and column for example) and then use that to display the errors... you simply embed an XML parser in the IDE (lots of free one available) and extract the data you need and change the display accordingly... That shouldn't be rocket science when I think about it.
Does anyone know if there's an existing plugin / system for setting up hyperlink-style navigation inside a code file? I've been dealing with some overly large files recently, and I was thinking it'd be nice to set up a javadoc-style list of function names up top in a block comment, with some kind of editor plugin to jump to the appropriate line number.
What I don't know, is if that sort of behavior is already present in any popular IDE or available in any plugins. I think it'd be a fairly useful tool, but I don't want to go through the effort of writing a plugin if it's already been written.
Apologies if this is slightly off topic, it seems too specific for programmers.stackoverflow.com
IntelliJ IDEA (my favourite IDE) offers Ctrl+Click navigation since long ago.
You ctrl+click on a name of class or function or variable and IDEA takes you to its definition.
It also has "jump to file member" functionality, which, I think, is more than you're looking for (because you can invoke it from any place in a file).
I use shift + alt + f to do an Extract class in Java, and would like to use the same shortcut for Extract Module in Ruby, since conceptually they are similar refactorings and there is no chance for conflict.
But IntelliJ seems to ignore one of the two shortcuts, even though the action is context-specific. Is there a way around this or is there a reason IntelliJ does this? I will run out of shortcut keys if I can't "overload" shortcuts depending on the language I'm working in.
There is no way to deal with it, feel free to file an issue, at the moment shortcuts can't be shared between these actions.
I currently use Programmer's Notepad with the Rebol syntax scheme. It's not bad--does any insightful person have another suggestion?
For my Windows programming work I use the Zeus editor, but I'm not sure if it does Rebol?
Another windows option is TextPad. It is commercial but it is quite a useful editor.
There are 2 Rebol syntax files available from the official site
http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/synn2t.html
I also wrote a TextPad syntax file generator uploaded it to rebol.org
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=textpad-syngen.r
It is probably quite easy to modify this script to support other editors.
vim.
Especially with the following binding in your _vimrc/.vimrc:
nnoremap <Leader>fr :w<CR>:silent ! %<CR>
In normal mode, Leaderfr saves your current file and executes it: (fr is a memo for 'fast-run')
:wEnter save current file
:silent execute without messages: ! open shell % paste current file name Enter
Leader is usually \ key, I have this mapped to spacebar. In case anyone is interested on how to do that, post a comment.
Programmer’s Notepad better than Crimson Editor with Code Folding and Great Project Management
http://www.pnotepad.org/
It's opensource so you can even modify it in C++
For Windows, there is Crimson Editor or E with the REBOL bundle.
For Mac, there is TextMate.
Emacs, I believe has a REBOL syntax too.
Sublime Text is a really nice Windows editor (commercial, but reasonably priced) that supports TextMate configurations (well, at least for syntax and snippets) so if you manage to get a REBOL bundle from somewhere, you can use it with this.
SciTE also has REBOL syntax coloring support because the Scintilla editor component it's based on includes this.
Notepad++ should also support REBOL syntax coloring, being Scintilla based, but as it is currently distributed, the support is not compiled in. If you're so inclined, you could probably compile it yourself and add the support back in. It might be worth it because Notepad++ is quite a good editor too.
I can't include proper links because I don't have enough rep, but this should do:
www.sublimetext.com
www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
www.scintilla.org/index.html
notepad-plus-plus.org
http://rebol.wik.is/index.php?title=Notepad%2b%2b
which is a REBOL plugin for Notepad++
I use JEdit which not only has REBOL syntax highlighting but also auto-indenting. It has most of the features you'd expect from a text editor (e.g. block selection, configurable keyboard shortcuts).
There are versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux so if you choose to work cross-platform you won't need to learn a new editor. The web page is Jedit.org1
I use UltraEdit.
with its advanced project, syntax highlighting, macro, command-line control and total keyboard shortcut configuration, per language and project, you can program the editor to do just about all of what you need at a single click of the mouse, or keyboard.
my setup starts rebol on any file, and assigns a launch "default project script " to a shortcut, so wherever I am in the files, I still launch the project's relevant script. change project, it will run that new project's scripts. another key for unit tests, another key for "find in all opened files, etc, etc..
also, the actual text-exiting, when combined with a few macros which create functions, objects, and more using the clipboard and "currently highlighted" text makes it much faster than any Visual IDE including MSVC.
ultra edit itself has thousands of other advanced features, and they all work... really they do.
I've tried other editors and they always fall short when I start to push them.
yeah, you have to buy it... but its cheap (like one or two hours of your life salary ;-)
so considering you might use it for several months or years... its a cheap investment.
also, ultra edit is now released on linux and the mac port is just around the corner.
I use EditPlus for several years, it is not free but not expensive. It has Rebol syntax highlighting file (downloadable from its web site).
It is especially useful & very fast if you work with huge files (over 100 mb) or with lots of files (say 300 files.), find & replace takes a second.
For syntax highlighting and a simple autocomplete, you can use http://komodoide.com/komodo-edit/.
It's free and open source with several nice features, including folder browsing while editing, which I personally find very useful.
There is also a bunch of other languages supported in case you want to take a closer look and give this editor a chance.