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alex24
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 Posted - May 16 2018 : 08:02:20 AM
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Will there be a linux version or standalone editor
I've use VC6 and Visual Assist as an editor for a long time.
Yes, I just use it as an editor.
I use it with many other toolchains:
with samba and plink for linux.
with mingw for windows, (I just don't like cl.exe)
with gcc-arm-none-eabi for stm32.
with ndk for android.
and so on.
I wrote a script tool to switch among the above platforms, by modify some registry.
All works well, except some minimus issue, such as VC6 not understand utf-8 code, can not set to unix file format, Visual Assist does not understand some gcc extension syntax.
Recently, I tried to switch to linux, and Visual Assist is the only thing that I have to use on windows. I use wine for it. It can work with some versin of wine, but some version not.
I also tried some other solutions, clion and vim + YouCompleteMe, but they are not as good as Visual Assist for me. I even tried to modify notepad++ to a fake VC6 to make it work with Visual Assist, but seems too much work.
So will you guys have a plan to do some other work than just to stick to VC. Since MS has make its own VC more like a Visual Assist inside.
Clion is very similar to Visual Assist in many ways, but it's too complex.
I think a simple editor with Visual Assist is good enough for many C C++ programmer. Like earlier years people configured editplus to a simple ide to write java.
Maybe you guys can try to integrate Visual Assist with some open source editor such as notepad++ for the first step, hope its not too much work for you, then try linux, and even android.
Finally, thanks for making life a lot easier for me.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - May 16 2018 : 10:24:27 AM
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Unfortunately no, we don't have any plans to do any of this. Just keeping up with all of the versions of Visual Studio is a full time job for us. If you still have a Windows license, have you considered running Visual Studio inside a Virtual Machine, and then pointing the virtual machine at a shared / mapped directory that lives on your Linux machine? This would let you edit your Linux code directly, via the share.
Given the line endings problem I would not recormend doing this with VC6, but you can use the community version of Visual Studio, if the license conditions are suitable for your work:
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/community/ |
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