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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
      last edited by

      @favdish @Ekopalypse

      I also am a big fan of changed-line indications, due to some editors I used before Notepad++ having that.
      LocationNavigate is not perfect with its marking but it is way better than nothing.
      I would have a hard time dealing with it if it were suddenly taken away from me somehow.
      It sure seems like the big question is, why isn’t this feature built into Scintilla?

      I think someone attempted to write a script before to do the changed-lines marking.
      It is not a hard algorithm…until you consider undo/redo; then it all goes out the window.

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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
        last edited by

        @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

        It is not a hard algorithm…until you consider undo/redo; then it all goes out the window.

        :-D Challenge accepted :-)

        Just to be sure what needs to be done.

        • Mark each line that has been changed since the last save.
        • Once saved, mark them differently.
        • Make sure that Undo/Redo changes the marker accordingly
        • Reload document resets everything
        • No persistence, i.e. at Npp startup there is a clean document aka no markers.

        Anything else?

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
          last edited by

          @Ekopalypse

          I think that covers everything.

          Don’t you have enough on your plate right now; thinking of:

          • themes stuff
          • PySnack
          • column mode prefix / suffix
          • other stuff I’ve forgotten… perhaps something regarding bookmarks… memory fails me
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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones
            last edited by

            @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

            other stuff I’ve forgotten

            • updating the MESSAGE and NOTIFICATION documentation

            :-)

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
              last edited by

              @Ekopalypse

              Yea! What Peter said too!

              But, seriously, if you could make a changed-lines thingy, and have time to, THAT would be an extremely cool and useful thing. And I’ve got to believe others would fall in love with it too.

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse
                last edited by

                Don’t you have enough on your plate right now; thinking of:

                :-D you are right and I should stop doing such thing :-)
                but this one is interesting

                themes stuff
                PySnack
                column mode prefix / suffix
                other stuff I’ve forgotten… perhaps something regarding bookmarks… memory fails me
                You’re right, and I should stop doing that :-), but this is interesting.

                PySnack dies before it’s born. PythonScript
                with Python3 has its first alpha release and it looks very promising.

                Bookmarks … hmm … what did I forget … wait … aren’t we
                waiting for someone else? :-D

                Themes - yes - I am not finished with the theory yet. :-(

                MESSAGE and NOTIFICATION documentation - will certainly be finished this week, and if it means I have to do it on Father’s Day, I will do it.

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse said in Two suggestions:

                  Bookmarks … hmm … what did I forget … wait … aren’t we
                  waiting for someone else? :-D

                  Me?
                  I thought I only promised something for THIS and I am still working on it.

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

                    Me?

                    No, waiting for the OP. :-)

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                    • dailD
                      dail @Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      It is not a hard algorithm…until you consider undo/redo; then it all goes out the window.

                      I too once tried to create a plugin to do this. It was several years ago and gave up because of this exact reason.

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse @dail
                        last edited by

                        C’mon @dail , I haven’t even started and you’re already taking the wind out of my sails. :-D
                        I thought memento pattern + deque list = solution.
                        Phew - I guess I’m screwed now. ;-)

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                        • dailD
                          dail @Ekopalypse
                          last edited by

                          @Ekopalypse My naive approach was keep a counter per line. Increment when a change is made or a redo. Decrement when undo.

                          This partially worked but once you start having to keep track of deleted lines, what to do when lines get merged, split, etc.

                          My next attempt was to use the git diff core code to compute diffs in near real time but I didnt ever finish it.

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse
                            last edited by

                            Hmm … I see, what started to be a nice project while waiting on firmware compilation/update is becoming a “don’t walk alone in the dark and do not go into that lonely woodden cabin”

                            Yes, I have also thought about Python’s difflib and using it together with the stored history of the document to avoid comparing large documents.
                            Hmm… I will try and probably report in two days that I failed miserably. :-)

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                            • Alan KilbornA
                              Alan Kilborn
                              last edited by

                              Any chance to have a look at LocationNavigate source and see how it handles it (undo/redo)?

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                              • EkopalypseE
                                Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                                last edited by

                                @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

                                LocationNavigate

                                :-D - I’m currently doing this but there are a lot of ???
                                Author seems to use a different encoding.

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                                • Michael VincentM
                                  Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
                                  last edited by Michael Vincent

                                  @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

                                  Any chance to have a look at LocationNavigate source and see how it handles it (undo/redo)?

                                  What’s wrong with just using Location Navigate? I didn’t see that was a problem above (except lack of 64-bit version). I this just an attempt to implement with a script, or legitimately fix a problem with Location Navigate implementation?

                                  Just curious before I potentially throw my hat in the ring …

                                  Cheers.

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                                  • Alan KilbornA
                                    Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                                    last edited by Alan Kilborn

                                    @Michael-Vincent

                                    What’s wrong with just using Location Navigate?

                                    Nothing, except:

                                    • It’s overkill for just the changed-lines functionality (I’ve never found any use for the other things – really the advertised main things – that LocationNavigate does)

                                    • It might be easier (says the guy that isn’t doing it) to recreate it than to understand the mass of what is there

                                    • It feels maybe wrong to “take over” someone else’s work (this is a very minor reason)

                                    Your hat is definitely welcome in the ring!

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                                    • Michael VincentM
                                      Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
                                      last edited by

                                      @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

                                      It’s overkill for just the changed-lines functionality

                                      Agreed. And it’s not 64-bit. And even on 32-bit, it always made N++ crash on exit. So I “extracted” the line marker only parts and made it 64/32-bit in a more simple change lines marker plugin.

                                      @Alan-Kilborn said in Two suggestions:

                                      Your hat is definitely welcome in the ring!

                                      See Changed Lines. Again, it’s pretty much lifted right out of Location Navigate code so I do undo / redo they was Location Navigate does it. It’s not perfect, but works fine for me. One of the many reasons I’m reluctant to “announce” / “release” “my” plugins to the wild - they’re not my original work, they’re just tweaks to others’ and I don’t have the skill to support / fix bugs beyond really simple stuff.

                                      Cheers.

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                                      • EkopalypseE
                                        Ekopalypse @Michael Vincent
                                        last edited by

                                        Well, that means @Michael-Vincentsaved me the embarrassment then, fine, thank you. :-)

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                                        • favdishF
                                          favdish
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks to all for a lively discussion. I’ll have a look at @Michael-Vincent’s plugin. LocationNavigate seems to do the job, after a quick test, but a plugin for both 32/64 is of course better.

                                          I’ve also discovered another contender, called cudatext. Looks also pretty good, this one, and has the added advantage to work natively with Linux (haven’t tested yet, just from the website blurb). What are the experiences with that one (if I can ask that in an NPP forum :-) )?

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                                          • EkopalypseE
                                            Ekopalypse @favdish
                                            last edited by Ekopalypse

                                            @favdish said in Two suggestions:

                                            What are the experiences with that one (if I can ask that in an NPP forum :-)

                                            There are tons of editors out there.
                                            VSCode, sublime, atom, geany, notepad2, pspad, eclipse… just to name a few
                                            and they all have their strengths and weaknesses, but in the end it all comes down to one simple question?
                                            Does it offer what YOU need, functionally and design-wise?

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