ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT:

This is the incomplete user's guide for an old code editor application I made in Python many years ago. I have posted it to share information on what it looked like and some of the things that it could do.

The document is not fully linked and is a bit broken.

-Lee

AIE Help

Introduction
Feature List
Using AIE
1. Menu Commands
2. Configuring AIE
3. Using Core Plugins
  1. Differ
  2. TimePilot Lite
Advanced Tweaking
1. Writing AIE Macros
2. Writing AIE Plugins
To-Do List

Introduction

AIE (Attack Integrated Envoronment) is a development envoronment for software engineers, although people in other fields may find this tool useful. It mainly provides advanced capabilities for editing text files, namely source code. It provides syntax highlighting for the major programming languages.

AIE provides strong support for Python code development. In fact, you can write plugins for AIE in Python!

AIE is one componement in Attack. Attack is a set of software development applications and libraries.

Feature List

syntax highlighting for common languages
auto-detection of syntax highlighting based on filenames
"Go to Line Number..." feature
lots of or unlimited undos and redos
can still undo after saving a file
bookmark lines in a file and jump to bookmarks
drag and drop files to open them
Python: Browse Tree for classes and functions within a file (plugin)
HTML: Browse Tree uses heading tags to create a table of contents. Also shows all hyperlinks, named anchors, and images in the file. (plugin)
file backup/restore capability with timestamped backups
basic Find features
basic Find and Replace features
UNICODE text support (utf-8 encoding)
UNICODE filename support (when supported by the OS)
jump-to-problem line - compile-time errors
a file completely "undone" is considered not changed
restore last window position on startup
Display line numbers
singleton application, but with ability to override and create multiple instances
built-in line evaluator (numeric and string computations)
python-scriptable macros
AIE Remote Control Library - Simple API and documentation (ZZZZ NOTE: STILL NEED ADD MORE COMMANDS AND TO DOCUMENT)
Easy-to-implement plugins for application
File Templates
Joystick support (plugin)
Invoke external diffing tool to compare file with its existing backups or basic_cm versions. (plugins)
Invoke external diffing tool to compare file with any other file. (plugin)
Invoke external diffing tool to compare file with an earlier version in archived build (i.e., gzipped/bzipped tarball backups). (plugin)
comment/uncomment highlighted lines
Integration with Time Pilot Lite (plugin)
Project Browser, where you can automatically load a list of related files and organize them in folders
Show/Hide whitespace and EOL characters
View in Browser (plugin)
Enable/disable word wrap
Save Window and Move Window - conveniently move and size your window to various preset locations that you can configure (plugin)
Pressing F1 on an import statement will attempt to open the documentation for that module if it is registered in the database. (Python Code only).
Pressing F1 on a highlighted text will attempt to open the documentation for it. (Python only)
Open nearby files
Windows: Show file in Explorer
Execute Document (Quick) [F7]
Execute Document... [Ctrl+F7]
Execute Project (Quick) [F8]
Execute Project... [Ctrl+F8]
Open Many [Ctrl+Shift+O] - list all files under a directory. You can then filter and select the set(s) you want to open.
Auto-detect file named 'SConstruct' as a Python file.

Using AIE

Menu Commands

Configuring AIE

Advanced Tweaking

Writing AIE Macros

The best way to start is by going to File -> New from Template... and creating a new AIE.Macro. This will generate most of the skeleton code that you need to start working on. You will then want to save the Python code file in the AIE's macros directory.

Writing AIE Plugins

The best way to start is by going to File -> New from Template... and creating a new AIE.Plugin. This will generate most of the skeleton code that you need to start working on. You will then want to save the Python code file in the AIE's plugins directory.

To-Do List

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