Trevor has a clever little hack for Sublime Text that pings LC every time a file in a project is modified. In the Levure framework he then has a listener that handles the ping to unload and reload the .livecodescript file, giving us live editing from the external editor.

The top-level README file (which is also shown on the package page) needs to be more helpful. Specifically:

• Installation instructions need to be more prominent, and need to link to the Atom documentation for "how to install packages". Optional dependency packages need to be listed with links to the appropriate packages' pages.
• Add links to the package pages and/or documentation for Atom features that the package integrates with, including indentation, auto-completion, snippets, and linting.
• Provide very basic instructions for downloading/extracting LiveCode Server for LCS linting support.

Although there's no common extension, the scripts of LiveCode objects have similar but distinct grammars from the two you provide. Could you add their grammar as well? For now, it would probably be the job of the user to specify a custom file extension for this grammar, or else to manually select it, but it would be a huge improvement over just using the "AppleScript" grammar for editing LiveCode scripts that have been saved outside of stacks.

For example, when defining a handler, it can be "public" or "private". Perhaps the private keyword could have a hilite color, or be a different shade so it stands out when I'm staring at code.

The BBEdit language files recognize // as an LCB comment, but the Atom lcb.cson file does not.
I tried to modify the lcb.cson file to add this feature - hoping to make a useful contribution. But I haven't been successful - maybe I need to add some escaping?

Here is the code I tried:
Lines 13-15
{
'include': '#comment.double-slash'
}

Lines 101-107:
'comment-double-slash':
'begin': '//'
'beginCaptures':
'0':
'name': 'punctuation.definition.comment.double-slash.lcb'
'end': '\n'
'name': 'comment.line.lcb'

For LiveCode Builder source code, the "Edit->Auto Indent" command ("Editor: Auto Indent" via the command palette) properly re-indents source code, including if/repeat/handler etc.

This doesn't seem to work properly for LiveCode Script source code (.livecodescript files).

Currently, if there's no livecode-server in the $PATH and the user hasn't configured package, opening a .livecodescript file triggers a scary uncaught exception error.

The exception should be caught and an informational warning should be shown, directing users to the settings.

Probably another one for @montegoulding?

Trevor has the linter in Sublime Text working. As part of that, I can look up handler and function names, or symbols. It seems that even though Atom supports symbols, we aren't able to get them. The shortcuts in Atom are command-R or command-shift-R.

LCB linting reporting wrong errors line numbers on windows

In LiveCode Script mode, the autocomplete settings don't result in useful suggestions.

In LiveCode Builder mode:

handler TestHandler()
    variable tTempVar

end handler

Put the cursor on the blank line and type tte. The first suggestion is tTempVar.

In LiveCode Script mode:

on mouseUp
   local tTempVar

end mouseUp

Put the cursor on the blank line and type tte. The first suggestion is templateEPS and tTempVar doesn't appear anywhere in the suggested completions.

The standalone engine can be run with a script-only stack as its argument. If we could use the standalone engine for linting instead of the server engine, it would make it easier to set up linting without having to download and install the LiveCode server (which most users probably won't be familiar with).

In a file opened with Emacs, having -*-Makefile-*- in the first line of the file will select Makefile editing mode. There's no need to have a mode: specifier, so it would be nice not to have to include mode: in language-livecode's detection regexp.

Also, we don't currently have any options for how to specify LiveCode Builder vs LiveCode Script mode.

What about case-insensitively using -*-livecode-*- or -*-livecode[script]-*- for LCS mode, -*-livecode[server]-*- for LiveCode Server / revIgniter mode, and -*-livecode[builder]-*- for LCB mode?

https://github.com/atom/tree-view#api

LCB doc comment blocks are distinguished from normal comment blocks by an extra initial star, i.e. /** ... */.

It would be good to highlight doc comment blocks in a distinctive way to show that they're not just normal comments.

Suggested by @macMikey.

1. Create a new file and put it in LiveCode Script mode

2. Type local tVar

3. Atom fills in some rubbish relating to traversalOn

This makes the Atom mode pretty unusable without perpetual -mashing.

When opening an LCB file without setting a valid path to lc-compile, an error pop-up appears recommending to install and set up LiveCode Server (which won't actually solve the problem!)

Since we don't have named blocks in LCS, it would be nice to be able to perhaps use comments to mark a block, and then be able to fold that block.

For example, I've taken to marking blocks with a commented hashtag

#<parse the list>
...
#</parse the list>

Hi,

I can not get the linter to work with Livecode (.lc file). I have installed the LiveCode server 8.02 on MAC OSX 10.11.6 (15G31).
If I type any errors it always displays no issues in the status bar.

Can anyone confirm which version do work?

Regards

Andy

• both "List" and "list" render as variable types
• As an aside, "Number" and "Numbert" both render as variable types

With #7 merged in, opening atom causes an error message:

Failed to activate the language-livecode package

Cannot find module 'atom-linter'

This is despite installing the linter package. So, either our README is wrong (and I need to install something else) or there's some other problem...

@montegoulding: any ideas?

If you type "end handler", you will get the Handler macro.

I'm having a autocomplete error after typing 3 letters while using .livecode files. Everything seems to work. I just get a wall of error messages every time I type anything. Other then that, it's pretty great. Is there anything I can do to stop these messages?

Stack Trace for error.

/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/symbol-store.js:228
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TypeError: Cannot read property 'toLowerCase' of undefined
at SymbolStore.fuzzyMatchScore (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/symbol-store.js:228:68)
at SymbolStore.scoreSymbol (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/symbol-store.js:214:27)
at SymbolStore.symbolsForConfig (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/symbol-store.js:91:41)
at SymbolProvider.getSuggestions (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/symbol-provider.js:364:47)
at providers.forEach.provider (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/autocomplete-manager.js:286:58)
at Array.forEach (native)
at AutocompleteManager.getSuggestionsFromProviders (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/autocomplete-manager.js:262:21)
at AutocompleteManager.findSuggestions (/Users/myName/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/autocomplete-plus/lib/autocomplete-manager.js:254:23)