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| apalert Newbie  Joined: 06/07/2023 Location: AustraliaPosts: 31 |
Just loaded up my first picomite with MMBasic. Is there any recommended editor with features similar to MMEdit for Mac OS? Footnote added 2024-01-29 21:08 by apalert Thanks for your suggestions folks. Lots of searching, I don't think there is a solution native to Mac. MMBasic editor in the Mac Terminal is not useable...issues like brushing the trackpad sprinkles random characters all over the code, trying to paste code in from a text editor gives a message "Clipboard is empty"! MMEdit is so well matched to MMBasic and such a nice thing to work with, kudos Jim, maybe I'll put Parallels Desktop with Win 11 on my Mac and run MMEdit in there. |
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Mixtel90 Guru  Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7657 |
Hello, and welcome to the 'Shed. :) The "default" for programming a PicoMite in MMBasic is to use a terminal emulator on the Mac and use the MMBasic built-in editor. There are probably other ways but I've never investigated them as I've never owned a Mac. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3332 |
MMEdit is terrific, but I just use any editor on the PC (Notepad++ preferably) and then, to transfer, select all, copy, F10 in the terminal program (for a PC--for a Mac, set up a keyboard macro to insert the text, "AUTOSAVE"--or do what VegiPete does and have "AUTOSAVE" as the first line in your program), then paste in the code, and finish up with Ctrl-Z). The code is then able to be EDITed, SAVEd, or RUN. ~ Edited 2024-01-24 00:18 by lizby PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6232 |
If I get really bored, I might have a go at syntax for Visual Studio Code. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. The basic syntax highlighting etc should be relatively straight forward. Likewise automating file transfers to the 'mite. A file manager would be another problem. I don't think I will live long enough to get that bored. Someone might take up the challenge. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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| apalert Newbie Joined: 06/07/2023 Location: AustraliaPosts: 31 |
Running MMEdit on Mac computer An update on this issue, I did end up installing Parallels on both a Macbook Pro (2021 M1) and iMac 27" (2015). Choosing most basic Parallels version was AUD116 per machine. MMEdit runs perfectly on Parallels and connects to the USB socket on the Picomite without drama. UART was a diiferent matter. Getting Silabs drivers for their CP2102 UART-to-USB to install and then to work took hours and hours of faffing about. I almost gave it up as impossible several times. But cracked in the end and now have MMEdit on both Macs talking to Picomite via Maximite Control Centre. Which makes me very very happy  |
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| robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2415 |
please don't tell me you paid AU$116 to purchase Parallels?! VirtualBox is free for the Mac. or you could RDP (free in Apple's store) into a NUC running Linux, or you could buy a cheap netbook running XP to use as a dedicated terminal (and/or dedicated to running MMEdit). cheers, rob  Edited 2025-05-18 21:12 by robert.rozee |
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