Of course, even if people on the list don't, you know the answer is 'yes' :-) I haven't talked about it much in public, but that's the eventual goal.
Along the way, couple of design issues will need to be solved: - We need a way to run the parser without side-effecting the dictionary; it should just produce a pure syntax tree instead. The editor would use this for syntax highlighting, auto indent, and so on. - We need an on-disk cross-referencing database so that 'usages.' and so on can work with unloaded vocabularies -- of course this would rely on the above parser capability. As for editing online help, I think a 'WYSIWYG' structure editor will make more sense here. Rarely do you care about indentation in the help markup, and editing it by hand can be quite painful. Anyway, I don't want to start discussing specifics too much, because there is still a lot that must be done before we can start planning for 'Factor Edit'... but it has been a goal for a long time, except recently I realized that I want something more like a super-smart text editor, rather than a structure editor. Slava On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Eduardo Cavazos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds cool! > > So are you saying that you're planning on building a text editor in Factor > that's designed specificially for editing Factor? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
