Hi Rene,
the alpha version of thinAir definitely has stability issues, we are working on it. However - it is something not unusual for release rated as alpha/beta. I definitely want stable thinAir for stable thinBASIC release.
As for Search/Replace, it is available - Ctrl + R, am I missing something?
The editor will get better in 1.11.7.0, but we are currently a bit flooded with Eros at work, that is all.
Currently, the fixed issues we have implemented and you can look forward for next alpha release is (spoilers ahead):
- fixed temporary execution of scripts via Shift+F5
- right click context action for #includedir
- uncomment out missing the first selected line
- better reporting of missing files (not msgbox for each missing file, but one aggregated message)
- process monitoring mixed /\
- better tooltip for UDTs
- hopefully better version of confusing >>>> indicator
...and hopefully more. As you can see, we take issue solving seriously, and focus on stability a lot.
My personal opinion on Scintilla is - it is good, has good documentation. I think we just scratched the surface of possibilities. I think we will manage to improve its use a lot, Eros is of great help explaining how it works.
All we need is a free evening here and there, to keep improving it. With this tiny time dotation, doing a complete rewrite would halt the development completely - at this time. That does not mean we are not checking the alternatives.
In such situations the thing which makes sense is to open the development and that is exactly what Eros did, allowing me to help with thinAir. I am amazed how much work he did on it, and I hope to be of some help.
Petr
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