Re: Syntax highlighting in Acme?

Could be what we really want is an acme-like editor for programmers
who want syntax highlighting.  Maybe we should fork it.

I say we lightly, I have almost no time for anything fun anymore.

Dave

On 2/28/06, Digby Tarvin <digbyt@...> wrote:
> I think I would concur with these conculsions..
>
> It is not something I have particularly wanted, but then I have never gotten
> used to those IDEs that are so popular on some systems.
>
> I definately do not like those dedicated IDEs that require learning a
> new editor for each language. In my experience, one powerful editor learned
> well is much more powerful than a host of language specific editors that are
> known less intimately.
>
> Fortunately I don't think anyone is suggesting that in this case.
>
> Another thing which makes me hesitate is that I have on occasion been irritated
> by Linux colour xterms and the like, which because I am not using the 'default'
> foreground and background colours decide to make certain text invisible.
> (I know it can be turned off, but having to type 'ls --color=none' is a pain,
> especially if I have to read a man page first to work out how to do it...)
>
> My priority is that an editor be powerful and (at least by default) content
> neutral and hence equally usable on any text.
>
> I don't like the thought of my language of choice being a second class citizen

Re: New images

ext ems wrote:

>So whats new in 20060227? 
>  
>
Where is the new version available? I can only see the old 20050720 
image on the Vitanuova website.

Jani

Re: New images

sorry, i withdrew it temporarily to work out how cursor changing
causes the collapse of X11 under Linux (only).  it did work when i
tested it before release but that's because it apparently works fine once you've done a few
other things first, and i had indeed tested several other things before that.
skittish software; my favourite.

From: Jani H. Lahtinen <jani.h.lahtinen@...>
Subject: Re: [inferno-list] New images
Date: 2006-03-01 07:16:39 GMT

ext ems wrote:

>So whats new in 20060227? 
>  
>
Where is the new version available? I can only see the old 20050720 
image on the Vitanuova website.

Jani

Re: New images

>>sorry, i withdrew it temporarily to work out how cursor changing
>>causes the collapse of X11 under Linux (only). ...

it turns out that X11 provokes the collapse of X11.
i think i'll disable the relevant code until i can
fix it properly (i need to have a special
x11-cursor-creating process with a big stack).
i don't want big stacks on all kprocs if i can avoid it.
because they use shared libraries i can't always
override the unpleasant functions (which we don't need but
are called anyway).

Syntax highlighting in OS X's Xcode?

Has anyone worked out a Limbo syntax description file (.pblangspec)  
for Xcode in OS X?  I've got the Xcode spec's in front of me and am  
about to dive in, but would be pleased to discover someone else  
already has one available to share!

(And please, no rekindling of the religious dimensions of why it  
would be a Bad Thing™ for me to want or have such a thing, nor why I  
shouldn't have it in acme instead.  On my past engagement (1997-2003)  
pretending to be a software developer, I wrote all my code in  
brutus.  This time, I'd like an editor that was a bit, um, more  
polished.)

Thanks,
	Paul
	plus@...

Re: New images

> it turns out that X11 provokes the collapse of X11.
> i think i'll disable the relevant code until i can
> fix it properly (i need to have a special
> x11-cursor-creating process with a big stack).
> i don't want big stacks on all kprocs if i can avoid it.
> because they use shared libraries i can't always
> override the unpleasant functions (which we don't need but
> are called anyway).

You might be better off having a separate stack for
all X cursor-related operations.  I found that a handful
of cursor-related calls were triggering the loss of lots
of stack in Plan 9 from User Space.

Russ

Re: Syntax highlighting in OS X's Xcode?

> Has anyone worked out a Limbo syntax description file (.pblangspec)  
> for Xcode in OS X?  I've got the Xcode spec's in front of me and am  
> about to dive in, but would be pleased to discover someone else  
> already has one available to share!

i don't, but here's one quickly put together with no documentation
based on examples from the net. i suppose the keyword list might
be useful to you.

// Limbo language specification.
// untried - just a starting point.
(
{
	Identifier = limbo;
	Name = Limbo;
	Description = "Limbo source code";
	BasedOn = "shell";				// ???
	UnicodeSymbols=YES
	SyntaxColoring = {
		IdentifierStartChars = "_";		// do we really have to enumerate \u0080-\uffff here?
		IdentifierChars = "_";
		CommentsCanBeNested = NO;
		SingleLineComment = ("#");
		String = (( "\"", "\"" ));
		Character = (("'", "'"));
		EscapeCharacter = "\\";
		Keywords = (
			"adt",
			"alt",

Re: New images

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:15:49PM +0000, C H Forsyth wrote:
> >>sorry, i withdrew it temporarily to work out how cursor changing
> >>causes the collapse of X11 under Linux (only). ...
> 
> it turns out that X11 provokes the collapse of X11.

(Under its own gravitational field, perhaps?  It's already a black hole!)

	- Dan C.

Re: New images

i believe for the moment that 20060303, freshly on the web site,
has successfully compensated for x11 stack space profligacy.

Re: New images

On 3 Mar 2006, at 16:12, C H Forsyth wrote:

> i believe for the moment that 20060303, freshly on the web site,
> has successfully compensated for x11 stack space profligacy.

I'm reading /CHANGES now, and there are some nice things in there.  
However, I think I've found a bug: auth/createsignerkey hangs forever.

I just copied over my old /keydb directory as a workaround, so it's not 
really affecting me.

Thanks.