Marlin: Advice needed on Marlin IDE

[BillStruve]

What editor or IDE is good for writing code for Marlin? Editing in Adruino IDE is a big step back for me, even UltraEdit is better. I've gotten spoiled with the C# IDE with its real time bug check and information being just a click away.

[emartinez167]

Johnny Linden has developed a Windows-based tool to help migrating
Configuration.h. Look him up in Google+ in the RigidBot or 3D printing
groups.
On Tue., 29 Nov. 2016 at 22:12, BillStruve [e-mail] wrote:

I'm very new to Marlin but not to software control of hardware (early
'70's) nor to programming (professional since the 80's, lost count at a
dozen languages and 0.5 M lines of code).

I've got a couple of Mini Metal Makers (50-100 exist) that extrude a metal
loaded paste via a stepper motor driven piston in a cartridge of paste. The
paste is dried, then fired in a kiln to produce a solid bronze or sterling
silver print. 3D printing metal for under $2K (printer + kiln) is cool,
n'est pas?

Anyhow, I wanted to upgrade the firmware supplied by the manufacturer, a
highly modified Marlin 1.02, to RC7. After seeing the changes to 11 of the
Marlin files, I decided to start (almost) over. So far, only 4 files need
modification in addition to Configuration.h, and adding my own
extrude_multiplier.h with a couple of variables and a class in it. Looking
forward to RC8 with the RCBugFix (and hopefully, UBL) in it! The fewer mods
to future versions of Marlin I need to make, the better.

I need advice on two things:
How do I get the Configuration.h and my own extrude_multiplier.h into the
release examples?
What editor or IDE is good? Editing in Adruino IDE is a big step back for
me, even UltraEdit is better.
(I've gotten spoiled with the C# IDE with its real time bug check and
information being just a click away.)

Any advice would be most welcome! Anything I write will be freely shared.

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[BillStruve]

@emartinez167 Looks like a cool tool for migrating the Configuration.h file to a new version of Marlin. I was looking for a good IDE to write Marlin code.

[emartinez167]

You will need to use git to submit a pull request with the changes.

Regards,

Ernesto

On 29 Nov. 2016, at 23:14, BillStruve [e-mail] wrote:

@emartinez167 Looks like a cool tool for migrating the Configuration.h file to a new version of Marlin. I was looking to have my Configruation.h incorporated into the examples section of a new release of Marlin.

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[thinkyhead]

Hi @BillStruve — Personally, I use Sublime Text 3 and I love it, even though it is not an IDE, just a "dumb" text editor. But it's very simple. There are plugins that are meant to integrate with Arduino, but I don't think they're very up-to-date, so I haven't been using them. Maybe one day I'll make my own.

I still use the Arduino IDE for building (and catching typos and syntax errors). You can enable the "Use External Editor" option in Arduino IDE preferences and it prevents being able to edit in the IDE.

Other people like TextMate, Eclipse, and Atom. Any good external text editor with plugin capability should do.

[shacal]

PlatformIO support?
I currently build with that and output is more optimized and fewer bugs (latest AVR compiler)
Visual Studio Code or PlatformIO IDE works well together.

[BillStruve]

Loving Sublime Text 3 so far, Thanks @thinkyhead

[petrzjunior]

For me, I started using Visual Studio Code or Atom (they are based on the same core). both work well, have some basic git integration and accept all line endings. ;)

[BillStruve]

@petrzjunior great to know since I'm familiar with Visual Studio - I'll give it a whirl when I get a round tuit.

[thinkyhead]

I'm suddenly very fond of Atom. I installed the PlatformIO plugin that turns it into an IDE. Building Marlin within Atom using PlatformIO takes only 13-17 seconds (!) (thanks to CLANG), and I don't have to leave the editor. It's pretty sweet. It also has LINT support, so it can catch syntax errors and highlight them right in the editor.

Then I installed the git-history plugin and that also blew my mind. I'm having way too much fun playing with this editor and trying different plugins and themes.

Of course it can open my BASH in an embedded pane (with a full-color TERM). Running JOE and EMACS inside of a pane inside of Atom made me ROTFL.

And, yes, you can fly an Asteroids ship and shoot up your text files when you feel the need.

I'm going to try using it exclusively for a while and see what else I can make it do.

[petrzjunior]

@thinkyhead I'm happy with Atom as well, just instaled all plugins recommended by you and especially PlatformIO just blew my mind! Coding speed doubled :)

[jbrazio]

I'm a license owner of Sublime but in the last month been having spinning Atom and I would say 100% replaces Sublime with no cost, there are some plugins you must install like minimap, highlight-line and highlight-selected.

[thinkyhead]

I'm kind of annoyed with Atom because multi-line find-and-replace is broken and has been for a long time with no resolution and no other option. I need to use that feature pretty frequently. And the editor is a little unstable (perhaps owing to the plugins). It's also rather sluggish. So I've gone back to Sublime for the time-being.

[shacal]

Visual Studio Code + PlatformIO command line build (task from VS Code) is best for cross platform develop. :)
Atom with plugin hell, is well... hell :D

[thinkyhead]

Visual Studio Code + PlatformIO command line build

I'll try that out next. Otherwise I'll end up having to learn CoffeeScript to fix Atom.