Topic: Autolisp IDE Poll

[BIGAL]

Maybe this one.

[kirby]

Missed the poll

I use a combination of:
- TextPad for general text file editting (with MP's syntax file)
- VLIDE to catch syntax errors, and to help identify variable names for localization
- extinct 'Ally - A Lisp Analyzer' by Steve Wasco (shareware version) for variable and function reporting and finding parentheses matching errors

Ally has the best parenteses matching I've seen (and I've been using AutoLisp since inception with Acad v2.18 c 1985).  Uses a different colour to display parentheses at each nesting level, and blinking parentheses to show a mismatch.  See screen grab.  Also has a simple 'single line' editor to make quick fixes.   I think that Ally evolved into another product named 'Cadet'.

Disadvantages of Ally is that it is a DOS program with limited window size and works best if DOS compliant 8.3 filenames are used.  I run it using DosBox (accessed via batch files called from an AutoLisp file).

[danAllen]

...Anyone know where to find Al's Steel Mill lol?

https://cadtips.cadalyst.com/standard-blocks/steel-shapes-all-types-and-sizes

[BIGAL]

An oldy like 30 years ago.

I use notepad++ has bracket check built will check dcl as well for brackets.

[VovKa]

i easily recognize the people who do not use vlide by their badly formatted code

for me vlide is almost perfect
the only thing i would add is a visual tool to navigate through long lisps, table of contents of some sort

[ScottMC]

Agree BIGAL N++ works quite well. One day the long.form comment glitch will be resolved but still do like the many additional apps to make things easier. Y'all use Ditto [clipboard mgmt] ? sure helps remember for me! Thanks for what y'all do. theSwamp really has help'd me see the gold after all that rinsing [time I wasted]...

[rayakmal]

I have learned that AutoDesk is going to discontinue VLIDE in favor of Visual Studio. What are your preferences and why?

I'm trying out Visual Studio. So far it looks pretty good. I don't have much of an opinion on it yet.

Too bad, VS Code won't work on Windows 7 (One of my laptop still runs Windows 7)

[donnieworld]

Ultraedit is very good. There are specific language syntax files for Autolisp.

[kdub_nz]

I noticed this couple days ago.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0915CCQYS

AutoCAD 2021 VS Code Update: for AutoCAD Expert’s Visual LISP (AutoCAD expert's Visual LISP Book 5)  release 2022 edition

 Reinaldo Togores writes excellent books
@togores pops in here occasionally.