The Flash Art of War

E Editor + AS 3 + PC = Progress

July 8th, 2007

If you are like me and forced to use a PC at your work or clients place but, you need to work on large AS 3 projects, I suggest the E editor for the PC. Here are some tips and work arounds I have for getting the most out of the E Editor.

For the past year I have been using Power Flashers excellent FDT Eclipse Plugin for all of my AS 2.0 projects¹. Now that I am making my move over to AS 3 in Flash CS 3 I am at a loss until they release the FDT 3.0 update. While I wait I picked up Textmate and the AS 3 Bundle to do my coding on the mac. At work, I have a PC so I use the next best thing, E! There is only one small problem. The AS 3 Bundle breaks when you use it in E so here is the work around I found:

After installing the AS 3 Bundle in E, you get this error.

After installing the AS 3 Bundle, you need to go through and manually comment out the large regular expressions in the Actionscript3.tmLanguage (C:\Program Files\e\Bundles\ActionScript 3.tmbundle\Syntaxes) file on lines 303 - 314. Since the file is xml, I just opened it up in E, add a html style comments to the above lines. Save the file, reload the bundles, and you should be good to go!

So what are those definition’s I had you comment out? I am not really sure. For the most part, code highlighting work perfect and I didn’t notice any major issues from the commented file. Its important to keep in mind that this is a temporary fix until the Developers from E can fix this issue. I have seen some post on it in their forum so hopefully in the next version you can go back to the normal file.

Here is my modified ActionScript 3.tmbundle incase you are lazy and don’t want to follow the above directions. ActionScript 3.tmbundle for E Editor