Edit G-Code with code folding

Hi all,

Since gedit does not support folding, I searched a g-code editor that could do it but did not find anything interesting.

However I found that KDE Kate supports folding, snippets, etc. So I wrote syntax highlighting and snippets specific to LinuxCNC and made them available for download at github.com/FernV/Gcode-highlight-for-Kate

Everything you write has a style : g code, m code, o code, params (local and global), operators, etc. Colors are easily modified in Settings->Configure Kate and you can also easily edit snippets.

Installation instructions is in README.md
Screenshots are available here : forum.linuxcnc.org/forum/40-subroutines-...cgui?start=300#70985

Best regards
Fernand

Hi John,

You are right. I should have mentionned that the directories are created by Kate when you first create a snippet Repository. If not you can create them yourself and it should work.

Kate5 for Windows I installed on Windows 10 is an alpha version and was downloaded at www.anvianet.fi/sars/

I still have 1 XP computer on the floor and I just installed Kate5 on it.

I opened Kate, selected "Settings->Configure Kate...", selected "Plugins" and checked "View code snippets tools" (or the like). Click "Apply" then "OK". The tab for the snippets is on the right. Right-click on it and select "Left Sidebar" then click on it to open the sidebar.

Clicked "Add Repository" button, gave it a simple name and clicked "OK". The directory is the one I mentionned : C:\Users\%name%\AppData\Local\ktexteditor_snippets\data

Closed Kate, downloaded a zip of Gcode-highlight-for-Kate and extracted gcodeHL.xml to
C:\Users\%name%\AppData\Local\katepart5\syntax (after I created it)
then extracted G-Code-snippets.xml to
C:\Users\%name%\AppData\Local\ktexteditor_snippets\data (already created)
and I also extracted *.ngc to desktop.

Restarted Kate, selected "Tools->Highlighting->Other" and found "G-Code" in the list.

Then I selected "Settings->Configure Kate...", selected "Open/Save" then the tab "Modes & Filetypes", clicked on "New"

Then I filled the blanks like this :
Name = G-Code
Section = Other (or leave blank)
Highlighting = Other/G-Code (in the combo)
Indentation Mode = Use Default (or Normal)
File extensions = *.ngc (or a list separated by ; )
MIME types = text/ngc
Priority = 0 (or higher if other Modes use the same File extensions)

Clicked "Apply" (better do it cause this version may crash and you have to start over) then "OK"

Then opened the demo files.
(Re-open "Configure Kate..." to change Font size)
The steps are the same as with Windows 10

For Linux, I use Wheezy and Kate version is 3.8.4 and the steps are very similar.
It is possible that for older versions the Configure Kate option is under the Help menu ?

NOTE : Kate(MDI) and KWrite(SDI) are both based on katepart and the highlighting will work on both but KWrite does not support plugins. However, changing settings for KWrite will erase some settings for Kate. Configure Kate only.

Maybe I should create a short video on doing this, what do you think ?

Best regards
Fernand

Can this be implemented in the INI as the G-code editor for programs?

Rick

Hi Rick,

There are maybe more than 100 syntax highlighting mode in Kate and maybe the one you need is there. If not, could you be more specific on your needs ?

Regards
Fernand

What I was wondering was, in the INI you can specify "EDITOR = gedit", could I put "EDITOR = kate" and it would work when editing programs at the machine.

Rick

That is what I did

Fern

Aaaaahhh,

I was thinking that this was being used offline for program editing.

Looks like I have some updating to then on the machines.

Looks Good, Nice work!!!

Rick

Im on Linux mint 17.3 and after installing kate I also had to install the packages to get the "configure Kate" dialogue working. It would also crash on file/open.

EDIT: Package manager did not automatically install these: