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Re: Re: Package development

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg62630] Re: Re: Package development
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:06:06 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

And I forgot to say that my ASCII text editor has syntax coloring for
Mathematica *and* can find matching brackets and so it is mutch more
helpfull than the FrontEnd.

Regards
  Jens

"Gerry Flanagan" <flanagan at materials-sciences.com> 
schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:dmh919$8r1$1 at smc.vnet.net...
| I'm surprised by the number of people that say 
they develop packages
| using the notebook interface as an editor. About 
once a year I give that
| a try and decide its hopeless. I'm a big fan of 
using line-breaks, tabs,
| and other pretty-print tricks to add some 
clarity to the functions. The
| automated features in the notebook are clever, 
but not good enough for
| something I want to release within the company. 
So I end up with
| developmental notebooks that feed (copy/paste) a 
text .m file over time.
| BTW, I like a product called UltraEdit for my 
programming. It allows me
| to set up a file of Mathematica keywords so that 
I can use color syntax
| highlighting while editing.
| Gerry F.
|
| >On 11/27/05 at 2:41 AM, tt at tt.com wrote:
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| >>Now the question. I have written a few 
packages in the past. More
| >>recently, I am always questioning myself to 
know if I should
| >>develop it directly in an ASCII .m file or use 
the notebook format
| >>and rely on the autosave package feature 
(initialization cells). I
| >>like the idea of  developing the package in 
the notebook format to
| >>have all the formatting features that ease 
reading, but at the same
| >>time, I hate to loose all the comments I put 
in when the *.m file
| >>is created. Of course I could put comments in 
the input lines of
| >>the notebook, but then I am better writing the 
ASCII file. Also, I
| >>could save the notebook as a package through 
"Save as Special"
| >>(that puts all the headers and text in 
comments, which is not done
| >>with the autosave package feature), but this 
is not an automated
| >>way of doing things. I am just seeking 
opinions from Mathematica
| >>power users. Which way do you develop 
packages?
| >>
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