Here’s the first taste of some of the new features and improvements to PrimalScript 2007.
I’ve been writing scripts for a long time and have a pretty unorganized library, despite my best efforts. Often when developing a new script I’ll remember I have a snippet of code but not remember where I used it. I’m getting better at using PrimalScript’s Snippet feature to save new snippets going forward, but this only gets me so far.
PrimalScript has always been able to search within files. You specify something to find, what types of files to search, starting from what directory and whether you want to recurse though subfolders. All the results in displayed in a tabbed view. In PrimalScript 2007 you’ll see a + sign next to each file name. If you click it, the file name will expand showing you the matched line and line number. Now I have a faster way to see if this is what I need. But it gets better.
I can double-click the search result and the script will open in PrimalScript as well as jump to the matched line. With only a few keystrokes I can quickly find something and retrieve it. This certainly makes my scripting more efficient.
We’ll be back with more peeks into PrimalScript 2007.