On Sunday 22 May 2005 22:35, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote: > Mads Lindstrøm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But we do not have to leave out ASCII based editors - atleast to > > begin with. You can be showing functions like sqrt using real math > > symbol and at the same time store your documents as ordinary > > Haskell sources, which can be read by any editor. This would of > > cause require the editor to have a faily big understanding of the > > Haskell language. And it can only go so far, some math stuff will > > require richer formats that cannot be translated nicely to ordinary > > Haskell sources. > > This has been done, Luke Gorrie wrote pretty-lambda.el: > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PrettyLambda > > Jorge Adriano did something similar for Haskell with x-symbol: > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-August/003237.html > > Pugs is doing this directly: > http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/24762 > > For more exciting possibilities, the plan for the Yi editor is to > have parser-based modes. That would allow you to do much more than > what's mentioned above.
Sébastien Carlier also made an preprocessor for Haskell code using UTF-8 mathematical symbols: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~sebc/unicode/ Cheers, Jérémy.
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