I started mIRC scripting using the mIRC internal editor under WINE, but it's slow, and has this tendency to randomly delete a line of code once in a while (Typically just a brace, sometimes something more important!) and leave me searching for what it deleted. (Anyone else ever experience this?)
Anyways. I do all my editing now with .mrc files (so there is no n1= line numbers in the file, as .ini's do) and an external editor of choice (KDevelop). My bot has a .reload command which calls "/reload -rs" on the script, actively updating changes to the file.
This is also ideal for larger scripts. My bot for the SocialGamer network is roughly 4,500 lines of code and would take ages to scroll through using mIRC's internal editor.
Just something to think about.
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