By the way, version 6 of JMP does the parentheses matching - use ctrl-]
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From: jmp-l-owner@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
[mailto:jmp-l-owner@lists.biostat.wustl.edu]On Behalf Of Ronald Cross
Sent: Monday, 23 January 2006 11:27 AM
To: Ronald Cross
Cc: jmp-l@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
Subject: Re: { SPAM 1 }::Re: [jmp-l] Any ideas on how to match and
balance
Choices are a good thing. For Macs, use can use either Xcode or
BBedit lite for balancing parenthesis, bracelets, or brackets. Both
are free.
Cheers
RLC
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Ronald Cross wrote:
> I am aware of BBedit, but it cost money. For parenthesis matching,
> I didn't want to spend any money. Xcode is free and comes pre
> installed on my system. There is a BBedit lite version for free
> that I will download and try to see if it has advantages over Xcode
> for this task.
>
> thx
> RLC
> On Jan 22, 2006, at 3:47 PM, James H Gundlach wrote:
>
>> Ronald,
>> BBEdit is the programming editor of choice on the Mac.
>> Jim Gundlach
>> On Jan 22, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Ronald Cross wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the response. I am not a Windows user so I will not
>>> be able to incorporate any of these editors. I have looked
>>> around on my machine (An apple computer) for applications that
>>> can do parenthesis matchings and Xcode appears to do the job.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the other scripting advice in terms of making dynamic
>>> plots and graphs. Except for PREPEND, all the other commands are
>>> available for JMP 4.
>>>
>>> What a pity that JMP doesn't incorporate this simple feature into
>>> their script editor?
>>>
>>> thx
>>> RLC
>>> On Jan 22, 2006, at 8:15 AM, chem engineer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ron - best approach is to use a stand alone programming
>>>> editior ... like
>>>> WinEdit or Crimson Editor. I use crimson, and have set it up to
>>>> recognize
>>>> key words int he JMP scripting language. Matching parenths is
>>>> easy since
>>>> this editor highlites them.
>>>>
>>>> I have programmed 5000+ lines of JMP script in the last 2 years.
>>>> And know your
>>>> frustration, and believe me ... you are just scratching the
>>>> annoyance zone with
>>>> this initial complaint.
>>>>
>>>> Spend time learning the EXPR, NAME EXPR, SUBSTITUTE, PARSE, EVAL
>>>> commands ... when making complex dynamics scripts these are
>>>> important.
>>>>
>>>> For dynamic displays spend time learning the DELETE, APPEND,
>>>> PREPEND,
>>>> CHILD, SIB commands as these (JMP 5 and on) are key in making
>>>> dynamic
>>>> displays.
>>>>
>>>> While JMP JSL is not truly OOP a lot of the OOP design concepts
>>>> do play out,
>>>> yet the limit of not being able to perform class construction
>>>> and subsequent
>>>> instantiation is a true limitation.
>>>>
>>>> Best of luck ... and if you have a specific problems ... post em
>>>> at the mailing list,
>>>> This is the best place for answers.
>>>>
>>>> Don
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ronald Cross <roncross@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi all, I am using JMP 4.0.4 for mac running a G4 powerbook with
>>>> 1GByte of RAM with a 1GHz power pc processor on OS X 10.4.3.
>>>> However, this version of jmp runs under OS 9 (classic).
>>>>
>>>> I have been developing some scripts and the most frustrating thing
>>>> about JMP scripting is the matching and balancing of parenthesis. I
>>>> was wondering if the community has any ideas on how to easily
>>>> matc h
>>>> and balance parenthesis. Trying to balance these manually is very
>>>> time consuming.
>>>>
>>>> Is the script editor any more advance in JMP version 5 for Mac?
>>>>
>>>> thx
>>>> RLC
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
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