Before the version 3.4, UniSciTE was working fine with JavaScript, but in 3.4 it isn’t auto completing Unity keywords.
So I tried MonoDevelop, the new default script editor, but it doesn’t auto complete JavaScript either. However, it does auto complete cs.
I tried install notepad++ but it says that the language helper is incompatible.
Please, someone knows a solution?
All that I want is a quick and simple way to edit javascript like I was doing with UniSciTE until 3.4.
The completion in MonoDevelop is so slow I turned it off anyway. It stupidly tries to complete when you’ve only typed one letter, which of course produces too many results. It also doesn’t abort/restart the completion analysis when another key is entered. I sometimes typed 20 characters before anything appeared on screen.
Hopefully Unity will fix one of these ASAP.
This threat is quiet old but I’m just replacing the slow-mono-editor and stumbled over this question:
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The wikie-threat about
mono-editor-replacements is here:
Other Script-Editors - Unify
Community Wiki. It lists several
script-editors being a lot better and
quicker than mono (e.g.
Notepad++ or Unity Script
Editor). -
The Uniscite-Editor, included in
unity, is not doing autocompletion
for some reason, even when I tried
turning it on (manually in the
SciteGlobal.properties-file). Help
for the mysteriously missing
auto-completion is missing on the
homepage, since Scite seems to be
discontinued and Geany shall
become the editor of the future
(unfortunately without official
unity-support).
However, I got notepad++ running well with unity and the mentioned tutorial.
- The language helper-plugin needs
to be downloaded manually. It’s a
zip-file containing two dll-files.
Extract it into the plugins-directory
in the notepad+±folder and remove
one of the two files not needed
(depending on your notpad+±version).
Otherwise notepad++ will complain
about one of the two files on
startup, since one is for Unicode-
and the other for the ANSI-version of
notepad++.
Once installed,
-
configure the plugin with click on
Plugins >> Language Help >> Options >> Add and fill the three fields (as mentioned in the tutorial):Name:
UnityExtension list:
js csExtended help file path:
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/30_search.html?q=$word$Afterwards, enable the checkbox “Enable
showing this entry in notepad++ help
menu” below.
To test it, doubleclick on a keyword in a script and right-click then. The context menu
will show the entry “Help”. This entry will open the unity-documentation in the web-browser with an explanation of the selected keyword. Since the Language Helper also
supports CHM-helpfiles, such a solution would be a lot more elegant. Unfortunately I don’t know of any offline-helpfile-version of the unity-documentation. If there should be one, maybe someone can post a link here.
The notepad+±tutorial however, has one minor issue:
- The linked tool “Unity External
Script Editor Helper” is not working
with the newest unity-version
anymore. The file shall get renamed
to MonoDevelop.exe to replace the
original Mono-Startup-Program. This way, a script’s line-number (on a compilation-error in unity) shall get forwarded to notepad++ instead of starting mono. This is not working anymore since Unity starts mono with calling some dll-file, in the newest version.
Hence, jumping to an error’s line in the script-editor is not possible anymore with some other editor than mono. Since notepad++ supports line-jumping with the “-n”-switch on the command-line, this is a real feature-lack in unity: The settings allow usage of another editor but no command-line-arguments.
Sorry for my late response… A lot of time has passed and MonoDevelop turned a lot better for java than was before, thus, I got used to it.
As I told before, I tried to install many script editors in vain, but I didn’t tried again since then because as I said, I got used to MonoDevelop. However, I think that following the steps that Spacepilot mentioned it would probably work, and I sure will try someday.