On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:03 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
sorry to chime in so late, but:
Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
I have just a minor suggestion for an improvement. What if it were possible to edit a Pd patch as text from within Pd? I often open a patch in a text editor in order to mass copy sends and receives or GUI elements or whatever. The syntax is straightforward enough that sometimes this is quicker than clicking, for a whole
bunch of items. It would be cool if I could do that from within Pd,
without closing the patch...wouldn't it be way cooler to be able to copy a (part of a) pd-patch (Ctrl-A Ctrl-C) and paste it into your favourite text-editor? and then do the reverse to get the patch back into pd?
any text-editor widget i could imagine would never be as powerful as a _real_ editor (like emacs or vi)...
i think desiredata has something like this (at least you could Ctrl-V the text-form of a patch from an email into dd)
(of course you could copy the text from the "text-editor view"
within pd to your favourite editor and vice-versa; which would give a fast (and always available) editor (e.g. for simple edits); but it might be
easier to implement just the global clipboard)
I think there is room for both, plus Kzrysztof already has a built-in
editor implemented. I think the built-in editor would be good for
quick, small edits.
.hc
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