[Gambas-user] Ouch, TextEditor just ruined my script :(

[Bruce Steers]

I mean completely changing LOTS of text,

I've attached a zip.
I contains 2 files.
One is a working bash script.
the other has been RUINED by simply selecting the "gambas" highlight option.

it does WAY more than just indent.
is capitalised all the If , then, else, while, etc commands, moved
text/spaces around a lot , added quotes on strings split over various lines.
changed for example cat /home/user/myfile.txt to cat / home / user /
myfile.txt

Scrunched stuff like  if [ $spacin = "matters" ]; then
to if [$spacin = "matters"]; then
moved EVERY dash arg like echo -e "text" became echo - e "text" (dash moved)

the list goes on.
The attached file is the one that took me over 4 hours to re-do and debug
after the Text editor i made saved my changes on exit.

Look at the 2 files to see what i'm saying.
one is messed right up and all i did was view gambas highlight mode.
Waaaay more than indenting.
BruceS


On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 19:47, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not sure I understand what you mean by re-formatting. Just adding
> indentations..? But that shouldn't ruin anything..?
>
>
> Jussi
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:23 PM Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've added a warning on the wiki about it.
>>
>> Benoít rejected it as a bug, asked why would i set highlighting to gambas
>> and expect no gambas highlighting?
>> Simple answer being that i *did* expect gambas highlighting but didn't
>> expect "highlighting" to do "text re-formatting"
>> I didn't expect to spend 4.5 hours fixing a bash script that the so
>> called "highlighting" ruined either.
>>
>> as far as i'm concerned for my Text Editor app the "Highlight" option
>> "gambas" has to be removed as it's dangerous.
>>
>> BruceS
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 17:50, Christof Thalhofer <chrisml at deganius.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 22.10.20 um 18:14 schrieb Bruce Steers:
>>>
>>> > Then it suddenly became horribly "BAD" for scripting :'(
>>> > Horribly, terribly, awfully bad.
>>> >
>>> > I may have even cussed ;) lol
>>>
>>> Yes sure such shit happens sometimes. Maybe you should implement also a
>>> Ctrl-Z/Ctrl-Y function into your editor.
>>>
>>> Alles Gute
>>>
>>> Christof Thalhofer
>>>
>>> --
>>> [x] nail here for new monitor
>>>
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>>>
>>
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>>
>
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