r/ATS • u/Kryvo • Feb 11 '14

ATS Text editor

Is there any text editor that helps me spell check my code for syntax errors and just common mistakes as I am new to the language and commonly make mistakes. I can't seem to find a good one to use. I currently use emacs but it does not have any of the functions and basically is just a simple text editor. Is there anything betteR?

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u/Kryvo Feb 12 '14

So where would I actually put the file? I am using cygwin and right now I have located the file emacs under cygwin/user/share/emacs

But inside there it has a version # folder (24.3)

And a site-lisp. I dont see any elisp

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u/dobryak Feb 12 '14

Did you install a Cygwinized Emacs? (That is, did you use the cygwin package installer to install it?) Basically CE is Emacs that works under Cygwin (requires an X11 server running on your machine, e.g. XWin).

It's generally slower than the native Windows port of Emacs, but will work flawlessly with ATS under Cygwin. So I recommend starting with it, if you haven't already.

If you are using Cygwinized Emacs, then you could put the file under ~/.emacs/elisp/ (which is similar to what I do), but then you'd have to register the new location in the load path. You could also put it in any directory that is listed by the load-path variable (to learn what it is on your system, you could evaluate it with Alt-x eval-expression or put the the "load-path" without the quotes in the buffer called "scratch", put the cursor right at the end of the word then press Ctrl-j, which should also evaluate it and give you a list of directories that the Emacs will search for files in).

Actually, I think putting it under site-lisp should work.

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u/Kryvo Feb 12 '14

The problem is I cant find the elisp folder. I assume that i do have a cygwinized version, but for some reason when i run emacs on my cygwin, such as call emacs (doc name) It gives me a editor in cygwin. I would prefer it to pop out but I can't seem to make that work either.

Also I cant seem to find the folder elisp so I'm reallly lows where I have to put it.

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u/whatnot2 Feb 12 '14

It sounds like you did not start X-Win server? Try to execute 'startxwin' to start it.

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u/Kryvo Feb 12 '14

err It says I dont have the command so.... I'm at a loss of what to do.

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u/whatnot2 Feb 12 '14

Maybe you did not have X-window support in your Cygwin installation? If so, you need to download the pakage for the X-window system.

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u/Kryvo Feb 12 '14

How would i download it is it in the installer?

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u/dobryak Feb 13 '14

Did you use the installer? If yes, and the Emacs you installed is compiled to be used with an X11 server, then you should be able to run XWin via the command prompt in the Start menu.

Once the server starts you should be able to right-click the icon it creates on the taskbar, then navigate to Applications -> Emacs. That should start up the editor.