[MSH] Which editors do people prefer?

I was wondering which editors users of the MSH/Monad beta find best.

Notepad?

Something like PrimalScript?

Something else?

Is anyone aware of any editors with plans to provide Intellisense (or
similar) for Monad?

Thanks

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

For freeware, PSPad isn't too bad - http://www.pspad.com, as well as Crimson
Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com. They both have color syntax
highlighting, and pspad is updated pretty frequently (Crimson is not).

I still like UltraEdit32 (payware, but well worth it).

I've heard many folks really like PrimalScript - I suppose that's more of an
IDE, whereas the others are just text editors.

Rob

 

Did you get to invoke MSH from TextPad? I tried to set one up but
whenever I run it, it get this message:

A critical error has occurred.
mscorlib: System.IO.IOException: The handle is invalid.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.VerifyHandleIsSync()
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(SafeFileHandle handle, FileAccess
access, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean isAsync)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(SafeFileHandle handle, FileAccess access)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.InitializeStandardInputReader(IntPtr
stdHandle)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.IsStandardHandleRedirected(StandardHandleId
handleId, Boolean& isHandleRedirectionDetermined, Boolean&
isHandleRedirected, InitializeStandardHandleDelegate handleInit)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.get_IsStandardInputRedirected()
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.get_IsRunningAsync()
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.InitializeRunspaceHelper(String
command, Executor exec, ExecutionOptions options)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.InitializeRunspace(String
initialCommand, Boolean skipProfiles, Collection`1 initialCommandArgs)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.DoRunspaceLoop(String
initialCommand, Boolean skipProfiles, Collection`1 initialCommandArgs)


Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: The handle is invalid.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.VerifyHandleIsSync()
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(SafeFileHandle handle, FileAccess
access, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean isAsync)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(SafeFileHandle handle, FileAccess access)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.InitializeStandardInputReader(IntPtr
stdHandle)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.IsStandardHandleRedirected(StandardHandleId
handleId, Boolean& isHandleRedirectionDetermined, Boolean&
isHandleRedirected, InitializeStandardHandleDelegate handleInit)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.get_IsStandardInputRedirected()
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.get_IsRunningAsync()
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHostUserInterface.Write(String
value)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHostUserInterface.WriteLine(String
value)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.DoRunspaceLoop(String
initialCommand, Boolean skipProfiles, Collection`1 initialCommandArgs)
at Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.Run(String
bannerText, String helpText, String[] args)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.Internal.ConsoleHost.Start(RunspaceConfiguration
configuration, String bannerText, String helpText, String[] args)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.ConsoleShell.Start(RunspaceConfiguration
configuration, String bannerText, String helpText, String[] args)
at
Microsoft.Management.Automation.CustomRunspaceConfiguration.Main(String[]
args)

Tool completed with exit code -532459699


Any ideas? Thanks.

Yimin Wei

 

If i remember correctly, it just worked by default in some previous drop.
(But it's a long time since i last tried running MSH from TextPad.)

With the current MSH drop i had to check the "Suppress output until
completed" checkbox in the tool settings in TextPad to get it working.

 

Ok, I checked the "Suppress output until completed" checkbox and I got
this message.

'C:\Documents' is not recognized as a Cmdlet, function, operable
program, or sc
ript file.
At line:1 char:13
+ C:\Documents <<<< and Settings\user\My Documents\MSH\test.msh


It seems that it doesn't take the path with space in it pretty well. I
then moved my test script to a folder c:\bin which doesn't have space in
the path and it worked. In summary, for TextPad to invoke MSH, you need
to do the following:

1. Setup the MSH tool in TextPad with "Suppress output until completed"
checked.
2. Put the scripts in a folder which has no space in the path.

Yimin Wei

 

I got the folder with spaces working by changing the Parameters field in
TextPad tool settings into:

"&""$File"""

With file such as C:\Documents and Settings\test.msh it executes the
following in MSH:

&"C:\Documents and Settings\test.msh"

(I could have also used "&'$File'", but ' is a legal character in
filenames...)

 

Yes, this gets confusing since MSH itself needs to see the script path as a
block, and bare quotes are stripped on their way into MSH. Here's an
alternative way to set up the commandline parameters:
-NoLogo -NonInteractive "& '$File'"
Another one that should work is TextPad's $DOSFile macro, and in that case
you don't need the quotes or &:
--NoLogo -NonInteractive $DOSFile

 

Oops. I knew I was overlooking something in my version...

 

Textpad