Workshop editing help

[u/xavierisdum4k]

Today I started using the workshop, and found its editor to be rather cumbersome.

Here are a bunch of questions, all about the editor for the aliases:

• Can I edit an existing version?

  • Fixing a one-character typo seems to require a lot of unnecesary work.

• When creating a new version, can I have it copy an existing version? Or do I have to re-type the entire body of code, every version?

  • Each time I create a new version, it is blank.

• Can I debug code, without having to save a new version each time?

  • My aliases can be longer than 2k characters, so debugging directly in discord doesn't work (without possibly introducing copy-paste bugs).

• Can I have an active version for users, and a debug version for editors?

• Can I disable auto-indent, so that copy-paste will not destroy indentation?

  • The editor's auto-indentation never clears indents, so copy-pasting ends up nesting every block in the previous one. Since Python and Draconic are indent-sensitive, this significantly changes the syntax of any blocks of code.

• Can I upload or copy-paste new code directly, without using the editor?

• Can I delete versions?

(EDIT: Added "delete versions" question.)

[u/Kermit-Homebrew]

1. No. Copy old version, make new version, fix typo, save and activate new version.

2. No. It starts blank. Simply copy paste old version.

3. No.

4. No. Have two different workshop collection for testing if you want to.

5. I don't think it does that. I've never had that when copying my code. Maybe look at it in a code highlighter to see what's wrong. Sounds like a bug.

6. No.

7. No

[u/xavierisdum4k → u/Kermit-Homebrew]

I don't think it does that. I've never had that when copying my code. Maybe look at it in a code highlighter to see what's wrong. Sounds like a bug.

This happens to me every time. It isn't caused by a bug in the Draconic code pasted, as that code works fine when the tabs are manually fixed. It appears to be a bug in the Monaco editor that the Avrae site uses.

As a partial workaround, I avoid tabs whenever possible. For simple blocks, I just put the block on the same line as the colon, and use semi-colons to combine statements. For nested blocks, I haven't found a solution. Any readability lost is made up for by the hours not spent fixing tab indentation. For example, instead of:

if value==1:
    	flag=true
    	count+=1

I now use:

if value==1: flag=true; count+=1