Hello,

I have a question about the default Character Set that Scite uses when it opens a text file w/o the Unicode BOM (or w/o any other indication, what the character encoding of the text file is).
There is a setting in File: Encoding, that is called "Code Page Property". I've found out that this option maps to the code.page setting in the SciTEGlobal.Properties file (Options: Open Global Properties). What I have set there is: code.page=0, which means that, to display the contents of the text file, a _single_-byte code page will be used.
On this newsgroup I've found the information that the code.page setting is actually only needed to determine, _how many bytes_ does each character in the text file translates to (I know there exist 'code pages' for which not every character maps to the same number of bytes), and not to set a particular character set. So, if code.page=0, then that means that each character in the text file is interpreted as a single byte.
The second setting is the character.set setting. This setting determines, what character set will be used to map the bytes (or byte sequences) in the file to the actual characters (characters that this character.set contains).
Now, the documentation tells me that the character.set=0 means the 'Default' character set. This is the part where I get stuck - how does Scite determine, what is this 'default' character set? Does Scite use some Windows API call to i.e. determine the default code page of the OS? I've actually sifted through the source code and I've found out that, if Scite uses GTK+ or Qt, then the SC_CHARSET_DEFAULT preprocessor directive (see Scintilla.h) maps to 0, which maps to ISO-8859-1 (see CharacterSetID() function in PlatGTK.cxx and PlatQt.cxx). But, I'm not sure if the same happens on Windows - I couldn't find the function that would tell me, how the default character set is determined if Scite uses Windows controls. In ScintillaWin.cxx I've found the CodePageFromCharset() function that takes the VisualStyle object that has the Style subobject and this Style subobject has the .characterset property defined, but I can't figure out, how is this property set (or this property is actually relevant to my original question) if Scite uses Windows controls.

So the questions I have:
1. What is the default Character Set if character.set=0? (if Scite uses Windows controls)
2. What is the function is the Scite source code that determines, what is the default Character Set? (is this just a fixed setting or does Scite use Windows API calls? (and if it uses those calls, where can I find them in the code) )
3. How is the .characterset property of the Style subobject of the VisualStyle object set by default (and is this at all relevant to what I'm asking about).

What I want to do is to roughly understand, how does the text editor use a given character encoding to read a text file / display the characters that it has read from the text file. Especially, to test this, I need to know exactly, what character set Scite used to encode characters to the file (characters -> byte sequences).

Cheers and sorry for the long post.

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Is there a good "Project Manager" plugin for SciTE?
Google found me three potential candidates:
- sciteproj which requires GTK and direct work with X11. I understand the use of glib in such project and (maybe) GTK, but the need for X11 functions prevent this from work on Windows.
- Scite Project Manager. Requires AutoIT and probably will work on Windows (did not try myself), but will not work on Linux.
- filerx. Saw several topics about it, with a "unfortunately not supported anymore" conclusions.

Did I miss any other promising project managers? I do need something which can live on both systems.
How do you work with multi-file projects?

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Often when I use the "Toggle all folds" command (from the View menu) I find that the caret is not visible anymore after unfolding. I need to press something like the down key to have Scite adjust the view and continue working...

Is this the intended behaviour? I find it a bit unfriendly...

I'm not sure if others are experiencing this too, but it looks quite easy to replicate: just open a largish file, move the caret somewhere near the end, perform the Toggle all folds command twice, and the caret is nowhere to be seen.

Perhaps something like a scroll caret action at the end of the FoldAll function could improve things?

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For quite a while Scite's MRU list has been bothering me. It seems to act erratically, with files I've closed first showing up in the list and then mysteriously disappearing later on. 

Oddly enough, each time new entries disappeared older entries would show up in their place. Often files I had worked on the day before... Weird (and quite annoying)!

Today, it finally annoyed me enough to drop my work and try and figure out what's going on. Fortunately, I think I've solved this little mystery:

It turns out the MRU list is *not* mangled if I simply open files using a File menu command. But, things *do* go wrong if I open a file by (directly or indirectly) starting a 2nd Scite instance.

My Scite setup has check.if.already.open=1 as well as save.recent=1. So, what happens is, the 2nd instance passes its commandline to the 1st (already running) instance and then stops. The original instance will process the commandline and open any files that are mentioned.

So far, so groovy, it seems. However, in ProcessCommandLine (in SciTEBase.cxx) there are 2 places where both InitialiseBuffers and RestoreRecentMenu are called...

The one close to the end of the function looks fine to me, since it's only called if the buffers aren't already initialised. But the first occurrance of RestoreRecentMenu seems odd. Is this the place that keeps resetting my MRU list to a previous state? I believe so.

So, my question is: should those 3 lines (4712-4714; version 3.3.1) really be there? Won't this logic be called during phase 1 (in the section below) anyway?

I'm not familiar enough with Scite's code base to say for certain. But it seems to me that if a running instance is processing new parameters passed to it, it should leave the MRU list alone...

What do you think?

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Hello Again ...

One point that I do not know if it's a limitation of autoit or SCITE but if possible would be very helpful ...

Imagine the situation:

After performing a listing, all was well when suddenly an error occurs.

Ok but if I knew the values of variables at the time of the error would be very useful for debugging.

1) Display the line that gave the error (OK)

2) Location of error (OK)

3) Values of Variables involved in Line (Tip)

4) Values in alphabetical order of the Local Variables in Function Location (Hint)

5) Amounts in alphabetical order of global variables (Tip)

PS when Matrix Display all data (Tip)

 

If so show me where I can post this suggestion

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