Text editor for EpiData Analysis programs
Jens and I gave last week a course for operations research fellows in The Union's training program. One colleague pointed us to the excellent free Crimson text editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/). Jens wrote then the necessary key and language components that can be inserted into the editor to read and edit EpiData programs color-coded to reduce errors if you wish to edit your analysis programs outside the native EpiData Analysis text editor. I can strongly recommend it. Visit the EpiData website http://www.epidata.dk/download.php page and look at the bottom for utilities.
Hans
PS: Thank you, Zaw, for pointing us to the editor, and thank you Jens, to make it particularly useful for EpiData Analysis programs.
Strange, by coincidence I asked my IT coordinator for a good general text editor today for another purpose. He also recommended Crimson and it could do a lot of other useful things that I needed - convert uppper case to lower case, column editing and a lot of more. And at the same time it seems intuitive to use and not overloaded with features. One thing I've not solved yet - it does not seem to be available by right clicking on a file, eg. anyfile.txt, as an available program to use for 'open with...'. Kind regards Claus Holst
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Emne [EpiData-list] Text editor for EpiData Analysis programs
Jens and I gave last week a course for operations research fellows in The Union's training program. One colleague pointed us to the excellent free Crimson text editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/). Jens wrote then the necessary key and language components that can be inserted into the editor to read and edit EpiData programs color-coded to reduce errors if you wish to edit your analysis programs outside the native EpiData Analysis text editor. I can strongly recommend it. Visit the EpiData website http://www.epidata.dk/download.php page and look at the bottom for utilities.
Hans
PS: Thank you, Zaw, for pointing us to the editor, and thank you Jens, to make it particularly useful for EpiData Analysis programs.
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Sadly, Crimson/Emerald is not available for the MAC yet. I've stayed with jEdit, which is feature-rich, works on all platforms, but is still easy to use. I have a working syntax highlighting definition for EpiData Analysis programs in jEdit if anyone else is using it. It matches parentheses on screen as you type or review a line.
jEdit will automatically open your last project (i.e. set of files), which is useful for working on .qes, .chk or several .pgm
Any of these editors will be better to use if they can match END/ENDIF to the corresponding start of the block. That will be especially useful for .chk files.
Jamie Hockin
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