Komodo Edit 8.5

NogDog

I just realized that my Komodo Edit installs were all 7.x versions, while the latest version is now 8.5.3. Apparently their 7.x auto update does not look for new major versions? Anyway, installing it on my PCs that were running 7.x resulted in both versions co-existing, the good news being that 8.5 picked up my settings (colors, projects, and so forth). And I see that 8.5 now has a scrolling code "minimap" as a view option, for those of you who dig that.

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Derokorian

I personally hate the minimap, although I don't remember specifically upgrading to 8.x I'm apparently on the latest.

traq

I'm happy with it as long as the editing window is big enough (meaning, I don't like it on my laptop).

NogDog

Yeah, I expect I'll turn it off for my default mode, as I often like to split my edit window horizontally, such as to view an action file on one side while displaying the model on the other -- not much room left for a minimap (I usually close the right-side toolbar just for the purpose of giving me a bit more horizontal room).

Bonesnap

Is your code intelligence/auto-complete/etc. screwed up? Every time I have used 8.5.x (any minor version) it's literally stopped working, or will work once and that's it. I've gone back to 8.0.2 and it works like a dream.

traq

No; code intel works fine (version 8.5.3).

Did you manually tell Komodo where your PHP install and/or user files are (Edit->Preferences->"Default PHP Interpreter" and/or "PHP Directories")?

NogDog

Code completion is not working for me, either. I did poke around a bit, setting it to point to PHP (I thought). For now I'm back on my version 7 install so I can work done, then will play around with it more over the weekend.

Derokorian

I'm having no problems with completion, using 8.5.3 and I didn't have to muck with anything in settings. Though I don't work on large projects in it any more, I really only use it for one off scripts.

Bonesnap

traq;11039581 wrote:
No; code intel works fine (version 8.5.3).

Did you manually tell Komodo where your PHP install and/or user files are (Edit->Preferences->"Default PHP Interpreter" and/or "PHP Directories")?

No, but native PHP functions seem to be okay (most of the time - sometimes they don't work either). My issue is when scanning projects/custom stuff that doesn't work. Works in one version, updated, stopped working. Went back, worked fine. A few people have reported this bug in their report system when they made the jump to 8.5, though they claim it should be fine now in later updates (8.5.3). It's not (for me, anyway). One of the other comments in their bug system was to completely uninstall the software and reinstall it and it should be okay (something to do with a botched update). That didn't work either.

Additionally, in my office there are four of us who use Komodo Edit. Everyone has installed 8.5.3 on a clean Windows install except me, and I am the only one who has full code intelligence working (disparaging the claim a new install should fix it). We all have clean Windows installs but I was the only one who installed 8.0.2. The other three are very complacent and just kind of shrug their shoulders, but it severely reduces my productivity and just plain annoys me, which is why I went back a version.

NogDog;11039585 wrote:
Code completion is not working for me, either. I did poke around a bit, setting it to point to PHP (I thought). For now I'm back on my version 7 install so I can work done, then will play around with it more over the weekend.

Version 8.0.2 is the latest version before they moved to the 8.5.x branch, if you're looking to use Komodo 8 instead of 7 (code intelligence works great in 8.0.2).

Derokorian;11039611 wrote:
I'm having no problems with completion, using 8.5.3 and I didn't have to muck with anything in settings. Though I don't work on large projects in it any more, I really only use it for one off scripts.

That may be why you haven't noticed any problems; it seems to appear when working with projects that have custom functions and large APIs (native PHP functions seem to work most of the time, but not always).

traq

We talked about this once in another thread, right?

Edit->Preferences->"PHP Directories" is what I had to change to get custom stuff recognized. I typically only have my current project root listed there, though; I used to let them just "pile up" and things started to slow down (Komodo even warned me about it, something like "scanning x,xxx files, may lead to poor performance.").

The only other difference I can see is that I'm on Linux.

NogDog

I don't know: it seems to work on my home computer (Win 7 Professional) but not on my work computer (same OS). I'll have to compare settings, though their project/WAMP environments are quite different.

NogDog

So I downloaded the latest 8.5.4 build from http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/nightly/komodoedit/latest-8.5.4/ , uninstalled 8.5.3, and installed the latest -- now things seem to be working fine. Go figure....

Bonesnap

traq;11039723 wrote:
We talked about this once in another thread, right?

Edit->Preferences->"PHP Directories" is what I had to change to get custom stuff recognized. I typically only have my current project root listed there, though; I used to let them just "pile up" and things started to slow down (Komodo even warned me about it, something like "scanning x,xxx files, may lead to poor performance.").

The only other difference I can see is that I'm on Linux.

We have, but it still bugs me that this functionality worked fine in the previous version but now it requires the user to make it work. Furthermore, I may work on 10 different projects throughout the week, even several per day. Going back and forth between stuff daily. It would become very annoying having to constantly update which PHP folders to scan when with previous versions all I had to do was open the project and it would scan the structure properly and everything would work just fine.

NogDog;11039733 wrote:
So I downloaded the latest 8.5.4 build from http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/nightly/komodoedit/latest-8.5.4/ , uninstalled 8.5.3, and installed the latest -- now things seem to be working fine. Go figure....

Oh, I didn't know there was a new version. Mine keeps bugging me to download 8.5.3. It doesn't seem to be an official release (if you try to download from their site you get 8.5.3), but hopefully this fixes the issue. I'll give it a shot at home and see what happens.

NogDog

Bonesnap;11039751 wrote:
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Oh, I didn't know there was a new version. Mine keeps bugging me to download 8.5.3. It doesn't seem to be an official release (if you try to download from their site you get 8.5.3), but hopefully this fixes the issue. I'll give it a shot at home and see what happens.

You're basically pulling in a beta version with 8.5.4, so I suppose there's the possibility of other bugs, but in my case it's working better that 8.5.3 did on my work notebook.