Managing large programs

[cicciocb]

Thank You Francesco.

Perhaps if this is introduced as a new firmware for modules with larger flash.
Worning provided to users upgrading to this new firmware that their old filesystem will be lost?
I would be totally happy with something like this.

The first approach is to use the internal flash memory as a storage place for the program; in this case I must see how to implement as this will also require a change on the online flasher.

Probably a much simpler way can be done using multiple files that the editor will just save on the module as a single file, completely transparent for the user. Must see what can be done with the actual editor or if is time to select another one (big work ).

In this case the update will require the use of multiple tabs on the editor and a kind of "import .....bas" command inside the main program. The module will simply import, at load time, the all the "imported" libraries as a unique program running in memory.
As the sum of the program plus the libraries risk to be huge, this explains why I would like to use the internal flash for the program recovering the RAM for other usages.

[Electroguard]

Probably a much simpler way can be done using multiple files that the editor will just save on the module as a single file, completely transparent for the user. Must see what can be done with the actual editor or if is time to select another one (big work ).

MMEDIT which peridot mentioned in this post... [Local Link Removed for Guests]
... is not web-based and does not directly edit scripts on the device, but having multiple tabs open on the same document was very nice.
It has a lot of features, so perhaps might offer some ideas.
There is evidently a linux version based on Mint, but I ran the Win exe version in WINE on MX Linux.
It already has syntax highlighting for MMbasic, which does help quite a bit.
I know it is not the solution, but was useful to peridot and myself, so was worth another mention.

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[ulli]

Just as an idea: What do you think of folding?
Folding in vim is nicely explained here: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Folding
Maybe some kind of folding, e.g. manual folding can be easily implemented into the RDS editor. It makes handling of large sources definitely a lot easier.

Cheers

Ulli