BETA: SciTE v5x & lua Dynamic_include and "Smart" AutoComplete for Vars/UDFs/Abbrevs

[Jos]

8 hours ago, donnyh13 said:

So far, with minimum testing, I don’t see any problems. But I look forward to your input.

Thanks, I'll have a look later to see what your change does. 🙂

[Jos]

On 9/20/2025 at 3:47 AM, rcmaehl said:

Props for detecting VSC and allowing it as the default editor! 

Right...  but not sure what you expect next after this elaborate info?
One stab-in-the-dark: Did you ever manually fixed the Open-With setting?  You can check this in SciTEConfig/Other Tools/Run AutoIt3/SciTE check 

Edited September 21 by Jos

[Jos]

13 hours ago, donnyh13 said:

Good morning Jos,

I did some tinkering with your indenter, and came up with the following. I fixed a couple typo’s, and added a couple of extra checks, etc. I didn’t mark the changes, I’m supposing you can do a comparison? But if you want, I can mark them and repost. So far, this seems to work good? If “\n” is enabled for auto-complete with enter, it was still breaking the positioning of the cursor. So to fix that, I had to do the following modification to AutoItAutoComplete.lua, line 718, after

AutoItIndentFix:OnUpdateUI()

Add the following:

-- Update to new indented position.

ncarretpos = editor.SelectionNCaret[editor.MainSelection]

So far, with minimum testing, I don’t see any problems. But I look forward to your input.

Best regards,

AutoItIndentFix.lua 17.86 kB · 1 download

Thanks for the extensive update of the AutoItIndentFix.lua! I have merged your changes into my version and had a quick play, which looks good.
Also did the update in AutoItAutoComplete.lua .
They will be part of the next upload unless any issues are found.

Cheers Jos 

[donnyh13]

No problem Jos. Glad to be able to hopefully repay you a bit for all your work you've done on this.

I look forward to hearing further on any of your findings.

Best regards.

On 9/20/2025 at 1:12 AM, Jos said:

Right...  but not sure what you expect next after this elaborate info?

I think they are saying thanks/kudos on allowing VSC to be the default editor in the install?

Quote

Props can mean compliment / respect / credit,

 

Edited September 21 by donnyh13

[Jos]

33 minutes ago, donnyh13 said:

I think they are saying thanks/kudos on allowing VSC to be the default editor in the install?

Quote

Props can mean compliment / respect / credit,

 

So that means I am really getting too old for all of this.    
Sorry @rcmaehl for not staying up-to-date on the "street lingo".

[donnyh13]

5 minutes ago, Jos said:

too old for all of this

😂

Don't feel bad Jos, I had to google what it meant too

I've heard it used a few times before though.

[donnyh13]

Hi Jos,

A small update. The indenter is adding indents inside of #Regions, I fixed this by changing line 216 from

elseif Curr_firstword == "" and Curr_lastword == "" and Parent_line ~= -1 then

To

elseif Curr_firstword == "" and Curr_lastword == "" and Parent_line ~= -1 and
                string.find(',if,do,while,with,for,select,switch,func,volatile,', ',' .. fold_firstword .. ',', nil, true) ~= nil then

Sorry for the oversight.

Edited September 21 by donnyh13

[Jos]

Updated my version with this change. thanks.

[rcmaehl]

9 hours ago, Jos said:

So that means I am really getting too old for all of this.    
Sorry @rcmaehl for not staying up-to-date on the "street lingo".

It's no problem. I'm starting to fall behind with street lingo myself. Kids these days with their "sigmas" and "mewing" and such

 

[donnyh13]

Hi Jos,

I have a question regarding the Indenter.

In the following example:

Func _Test1()
;~  Local $123
;#
    ;#

        ; A Comment
        ;#
    ;#
EndFunc

Func _Test2()
;~  Local $123
    ;#

        ; An inline Comment
    ;#
EndFunc

Which function do you think demonstrates what you consider proper behaviour? _Test1 or _Test2? Each ";#" indicates where the caret is placed after pressing enter. _Test1 indicates the current behaviour which makes it convenient to write multiline comments in a neat row. _Test2 would keep things more strictly indented based on the current fold.

Or perhaps a third option of:

Func _Test3()
;~  Local $123
    ;#
    ;#

        ; A Comment
        ;#
    ;#
EndFunc

Where the indent is corrected on the next line to proper indentation only after comments with ";~", and not ";".

Or perhaps its fine as it stands?
Thanks,

Best regards,

[Jos]

I've tried to simply follow the rules that Tidy uses when it comes to indentation. In that case neither is perfect as this is the result with my tidy settings:

Func _Test1()
;~  Local $123
    ;#
    ;#

    ; A Comment
    ;#
    ;#
EndFunc   ;==>_Test1

Func _Test2()
;~  Local $123
    ;#

    ; An inline Comment
    ;#
EndFunc   ;==>_Test2

 

[donnyh13]

Hi Jos,

Not sure if you are wishing for a fix to the comments. But if so:

I added to ~Line  105:

if string.find(editor:GetLine(Parent_line), "^%s*;") then
                self:DebugPrint('! Parent Line is a Comment, finding real parent.', "Old Parent line: " .. Parent_line, "New Parent Line: " .. editor.FoldParent[Parent_line])
                Parent_line = editor.FoldParent[Parent_line]

            end

And to ~line 228, after:

elseif Curr_firstword == "" and Curr_lastword == "" and Parent_line ~= -1 and
                        string.find(',if,do,while,with,for,select,switch,func,volatile,', ',' .. fold_firstword .. ',', nil, true) ~= nil then
                    -- Empty line in a fold, update indent to appropriate parent fold level.
                    editor.LineIndentation[line + 1] = editor.LineIndentation[Parent_line] + editor.Indent
                    self:DebugPrint('- Empty line in a keyword, update indent to Parent + 1 --', editor.LineIndentation[line + 1])

Added the following:

elseif (string.find(Curr_firstword, "^;") ~= nil) and Curr_lastword == "" then
                    -- Correct Indent after a comment which may be in the wrong indentation position.
                    if (Parent_line ~= -1) and
                        string.find(',if,do,while,with,for,select,switch,func,volatile,', ',' .. fold_firstword .. ',', nil, true) ~= nil then
                    editor.LineIndentation[line + 1] = editor.LineIndentation[Parent_line] + editor.Indent
                    self:DebugPrint('- New line after a comment, update indent to Parent + 1 --', "New Indent Level: " .. editor.LineIndentation[line + 1])
                    else
                    editor.LineIndentation[line + 1] = 0
                    self:DebugPrint('- New line after a comment outside of a fold, update indent to 0 --', "New Indent Level: " .. editor.LineIndentation[line + 1])
                    end

If you're not concerned. You can ignore this.

Best regards,

[Jos]

8 hours ago, donnyh13 said:

Hi Jos,

Not sure if you are wishing for a fix to the comments. But if so:

I added to ~Line  105:

if string.find(editor:GetLine(Parent_line), "^%s*;") then
                self:DebugPrint('! Parent Line is a Comment, finding real parent.', "Old Parent line: " .. Parent_line, "New Parent Line: " .. editor.FoldParent[Parent_line])
                Parent_line = editor.FoldParent[Parent_line]

            end

And to ~line 228, after:

elseif Curr_firstword == "" and Curr_lastword == "" and Parent_line ~= -1 and
                        string.find(',if,do,while,with,for,select,switch,func,volatile,', ',' .. fold_firstword .. ',', nil, true) ~= nil then
                    -- Empty line in a fold, update indent to appropriate parent fold level.
                    editor.LineIndentation[line + 1] = editor.LineIndentation[Parent_line] + editor.Indent
                    self:DebugPrint('- Empty line in a keyword, update indent to Parent + 1 --', editor.LineIndentation[line + 1])

Added the following:

elseif (string.find(Curr_firstword, "^;") ~= nil) and Curr_lastword == "" then
                    -- Correct Indent after a comment which may be in the wrong indentation position.
                    if (Parent_line ~= -1) and
                        string.find(',if,do,while,with,for,select,switch,func,volatile,', ',' .. fold_firstword .. ',', nil, true) ~= nil then
                    editor.LineIndentation[line + 1] = editor.LineIndentation[Parent_line] + editor.Indent
                    self:DebugPrint('- New line after a comment, update indent to Parent + 1 --', "New Indent Level: " .. editor.LineIndentation[line + 1])
                    else
                    editor.LineIndentation[line + 1] = 0
                    self:DebugPrint('- New line after a comment outside of a fold, update indent to 0 --', "New Indent Level: " .. editor.LineIndentation[line + 1])
                    end

If you're not concerned. You can ignore this.

Best regards,

Just PM me or attach the updated LUA file when you have fixes, and I will merge them into my local version for the next upload. 🙂