faq

具有IDE功能的编辑器

   The latest development version can be obtained from
       http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/

2.1 Where can I get Python?

   The Python home page is http://www.python.org/
   There you will find a list of the many mirror sites
   around the world.
   Cooledit requires Python version 1.5

2.3 Does Cooledit have a mailing list?

   No. Correspondence to be addressed through the
   author. Please don't bug me with generic queries.
   There are newsgroups and local Linux User Groups
   for that.

2.4 Does Cooledit have a world wide web home-page?

   http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/

2.5 What other applications are called 'cooledit'?

   I havn't done a search myself, but users tell me that a program
   'cooledit', for editing sound files, exists for one non-unix
   operating system. Since this application has a complete different
   function to Cooledit, this should cause no problem.

3 COMMON PROBLEMS

3.1 How do I get the commands from the 'Scripts' menu to work?

   If a script doesn't function properly, try run it stand-alone from a
   terminal to see what happens. Some of the scripts are not standard
   Unix commands and require installation of other free-ware packages.
   You may need to install

      ispell
      indent
      latex
      xdvi
      rxvt
      ghostview
      dvips

   (Look on you local  sunsite  or  tsx  mirror for these and other
   free-ware packages.) You can edit the script from the Script menu.
   Look at the script's text and try run the script (make appropriate
   substitutions for the filenames) from a terminal. This will usually
   indicate the problem.

3.2 How do I get the man page browser to work?

    (As of version 3.3.3, the configure script automatically
     checks if man accepts '-a')
   Look in the file ~/cedit/.cooledit.ini
   Somewhere in the file is the line:
       option_man_cmdline = man -a %m
  
   You should try:
       Start cooledit from a terminal.
       See your man man-page (type  man man  at the terminal) to see if
           command-line options or environment variables are needed.
       See if the -a option is supported.

   Then see if the command-line needs changing.

3.3 The man page browser displays the man page, but gives a warning.

   This can safely be ignored.

3.4 In what ways does Cooledit behave differently to other X applications.

   Cooledit is more similar to applications from 'other' operating systems
   than to standard X applications.

   - Only two mouse buttons are supported. Mouse button 1 is recognised as
       the 'Left' button, while all other buttons are recognized as the
       'Right' button. Under the Options menu you can however set the middle
       mouse button to paste.
   - Double clicking is synonymous with acknowledgement or pressing Enter.
   - The Tab key is always used to cycle between items in a dialog box.
       The arrow keys can also be used where they are not bound to some
       other function. Shift-Tab or back-tab is used to cycle backward.
   - Shift-arrow text highlighting works along with its well known keys:
       Control-Ins and Shift-Ins. In addition Alt/Meta-Ins brings up
       a cut and paste history which is very useful.
   - Dragging and dropping bits of text poses the problem of how to
       tell if the user wants to copy or to move the text being highlighted:
       use the Left mouse button to copy and the right mouse button to move
       ('move' = 'copy and then delete the original'). Dragging always works
       by highlighting the text with the mouse or cursor keys, and then
       Clicking (with the appropriate button) and dragging from within
       the highlighted region.
   - Clicking with button 2 to copy text from another application doesn't
       work --- instead you must use Shift-Insert. If text is highlighted
       in another application it will then be inserted at the cursor.
       Under the Options menu you can however set the middle mouse button
       to paste. Cooledit also does not discriminate between different kinds
       of data, so any data being copied to Cooledit will be accepted and
       inserted.
   - Copying of text to another application works as usual: highlight it
       with the mouse and click the middle mouse button in the window of
       the application. You can also highlight it with the arrow keys and
       press Control-Ins, and then click the middle mouse button in the
       window of the application.
   - Regular expression substring replaces are not like other Unix editors.
       See under `How do I do regular expression substring replaces?'.

3.5 How do I get Emacs key-bindings, or bindings of other editors?

   The key learning dialog box is easy to use. Just go through the list,
   pressing the keys you would like. Double key combinations will not
   work however.

   Cooledit now contains a builtin Python interpretor which can be used
   to program double key combinations and effectively emulate any other
   editor. Anybody want to create a vi emulation?

3.6 How do I get function keys F13 and up with my keyboard?

   Shift with a function key is analogous to adding 10 to the function
   key. i.e. Shift-F3 is F13 etc.

3.7 How do I paste into an input widget like the file browser input line?

   Press Shift-Insert in the input line.

3.8 How do I get my Alt/Meta key to work?

   On some machines, what the system thinks is an Alt/Meta key is
   actually one of the other hyper keys (on my Sun I have to use the key
   with the diamond on it). Try using one of these other keys as a
   Alt/Meta. The header file  global.h  contains the definition of the
   Alt/Meta key which you can change if you know what you are doing.

3.9 Why do my other drag and drop applications not work with Cooledit?

   The freeware community is adopting a new drag and drop protocol
   called XDND. Cooledit now works with this protocol only. It supports
   version 0, 1 and 2 of the protocol, although I have not tested it
   with versions below 2. Just when I had it working with version 2 of
   this protocol, the XDND team adopted a new version 3, which I haven't
   been able to get working. When more XDND applications come out (Qt is
   said to be going XDND) then I will have a more thorough test-bed for
   version 3 of the protocol and will probably be able to get this
   working.

3.10 Where can I get more info on drag and drop?

   http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/

3.11 How do I get mail to work?

   If mail doesn't work, your mail command probably doesn't support one
   of the command line options (see the mail dialog). You will have to
   create a mail script that ignores these options. The command is not
   currently configurable. Watch cooledit's stdout when sending mail to
   see mail error messages.

3.12 How do I do regular expression substring replaces?

   Substrings are specified between ( and ) braces. Use \( to specify a
   literal (. %s can be used to insert a substring into the replacement
   string. Use %% for a literal %. Use the third field of the
   replacement dialog box to enter the order in which the substrings
   will be inserted, eg.
       3,4,1,3
   This is different to sed replacements which use \( \) for substrings
   and \1, \2 ... for replacements. Also see the man page for an example.

3.13 Why does Cooledit die occasionally for no reason?

   If you have bad RAM or some kind of hardware problem it will be
   noticeable when you do kernel compiles. It will also be noticeable when
   you use Cooledit because of the very weird way Cooledit shuffles memory
   around.

   I have noticed that Cooledit can crash after being up for several weeks
   non stop. If anyone can send me a backtrace it would be appreciated. I
   am not sure if this is a Cooledit problem though.

   I also noticed crashes when using paragraph formatting in
   combination with auto-spellcheck. I fixed some potential problem
   code with regard to this, but can't be sure its gone.

3.14 How can I print from Cooledit?

   (There may be a `Print...' menu item by the time you read
   this.)

   I have not built printing facilities into Cooledit because,
   when I do, I am going to use proper ascii-to-postscript
   conversion to do nice printing of plain text documents.

   At the moment, you can just print the way you normally do
   on UNIX (i.e. run

      lpr <filename>

   ). Also create a script to run this under the `Scripts' menu
   for convenience.

   Note that you can also drag and drop to the print icon of
   Coolicon.

3.15 When i try to edit a python file with cooledit, i have these errors?

   > When i try to edit a python file with cooledit, i have these errors :
   >   File "<string>", line 3, in ?
   >   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/traceback.py", line 6, in ?
   >     import types
   >   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/types.py", line 18, in ?
   >     BufferType = type(buffer(''))
   > NameError: buffer    

   buffer was a new type introduced in python 1.5.2.  It looks like you are
   running the python 1.5.1 binary against the 1.5.2 libraries.

   -Michel

3.16 How can I enable NeXT look in Cooledit?
   
   When building cooledit use --enable-NeXT-look option of
   configure script.

3.17 How do I change the background color?

   Edit your ~/.cedit/.cooledit.ini file and search for
      option_editor_bg_normal
   Colors are 1 through 26, but only 0 and 1 make any sense if you are
   using syntax highlighting.

4 INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS

4.1 How do I enable international character support?

   International character support has changed as of version 3.10, and
   now properly uses the libc6 locale functionality. Hence you should
   set the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables to reflect your locale,
   and install the appropriate locale files. Most distributions will
   have these locale files installed already in say
       /usr/share/i18n/locales/
   You can then type
       export LC_ALL=cs_CZ
       export LANG=cs_CZ
       cooledit

   A full list of locales on my system is: POSIX, cs_CZ, da_DK, de_AT,
   de_BE, de_CH, de_DE, de_LU, el_GR, en_AU, en_CA, en_DK, en_GB, en_IE,
   en_NZ, en_US, en_ZA, es_AR, es_BO, es_CL, es_CO, es_DO, es_EC, es_ES,
   es_GT, es_HN, es_MX, es_PA, es_PE, es_PY, es_SV, es_US, es_UY, es_VE,
   et_EE, eu_ES, fi_FI, fo_FO, fr_BE, fr_CA, fr_CH, fr_FR, fr_LU, ga_IE,
   he_IL, hr_HR, hu_HU, id_ID, in_ID, is_IS, it_CH, it_IT, iw_IL, ja_JP,
   kl_GL, lt_LT, lv_LV, nl_BE, nl_NL, no_NO, pl_PL, pt_BR, pt_PT, ro_RO,
   ru_RU, ru_SU, ru_UA, sk_SK, sl_SI, sr_YU, sv_FI, sv_SE, tr_TR, uk_UA,
   zh_CN.

   You should also choose an appropriate font for your locale if it
   requires other than the normal iso8859-1 character set, such as the
   koi8 fonts for Russian language support. For example,
       cooledit -font '-cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r'

4.2 How do I compose and insert international characters?

   Use Right-Control and the character that the international
   character most looks like. Then press a second character that
   would compose that character typographically.
       Eg. Ctrl-a o inserts a '