To the OP:
Eclipse + OcalIDE
Alain Frisch wrote:
On 05/01/2010 09:13, Jon Harrop wrote:
I think the best way to write a decent editor for OCaml would be to
write one
using LablGTK for the GUI and camlp4 to parse OCaml code.
It is indeed very tempting to reuse an existing OCaml parser in order to
support syntax-related features (indentation, coloring, and whatnot);
especially if you can then support syntax extension properly.
The problem is that the editor is supposed to work even with partial or
syntactically invalid code, which is not the case for the OCaml parsers
(built-in or Camlp4-based). It would be great to have a parser for OCaml
syntax, with robust error recovery. Has anyone worked on such a project?
This is indeed a thorny issue. The developer of OcalIDE is taking
another stab at this but this time using Camlp4 [1].
BTW the way the Haskell eclipse plug-in [2] also has to deal with such
issues. In their case they use a generic library and API [3] that should
be usable by any number of IDEs and editors (already used by emacs). May
be of interest to you also.
[1] http://ocaml.eclipse.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=226
[2] http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://code.google.com/p/scion-lib/
Hugo F.
Alain
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