Heh Heh - QnD means 'Quick and Dirty' ;-), ie. it's a format of my own
making. It's just an informal format I have used for my 'daily development
journal' entries for a long time. It's based on the '{{{' and '}}}'
markings that the TDS(*) folding editor Origami used to use.
(*) TDS == Transputer Development System
On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 7:14:34 PM UTC [email protected] wrote:
> What is QnD note-taking format? I couldn't find it with the obvious
> online searches.
>
> On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 1:50:48 PM UTC-5 jkn wrote:
>
>> Hi Edward
>> IIRC my main stumbling block was understanding the gap between
>> 'concrete' uses of the importer subclasses (sorry, haven't got the exact
>> name to hand) and the possibilities given by the more abstract superclass.
>> I was able to make a start by basing my work on a similar subclass, but
>> when that was not quite right it was a bit tricky to work out where to
>> look, whether there was an as-yet unused facility provided by the
>> superclass, etc.
>>
>> I'm not complaining, I didn't spend long on it and in part I was reminded
>> that I need to be clear in my own mind about what I wanted the output to
>> be!...
>>
>> Regards, J^n
>>
>> On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 4:20:53 PM UTC Edward K. Ream wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 8:17 AM jkn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll watch this with interest, if only because one project for my
>>>> 'copious free time' is adding an importer for a QnD note-taking format I
>>>> use myself.
>>>>
>>>> I started on this a while ago but got a bit bogged down in the details
>>>> of the current mechanism, and have never got back to it (typical!)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this note. There was a serious bug in the base Importer
>>> class, in the undent method. Other than that, all changes should be to the
>>> Py_Importer subclass.
>>>
>>> All importers use the same basic strategy. Each importer handles the
>>> input line-by-line. The tokenizer subclasses know all about tokens such as
>>> strings and multi-line comments. Tokenizing each line is essential to avoid
>>> mistaking strings for syntactic entities.
>>>
>>> The main line of each importer is the gen_lines method. Many importers
>>> use the base Importer.gen_lines method. The python importer does not,
>>> because indentation matters so much.
>>>
>>> I am starting to get an inkling that the python version of gen_lines
>>> method might be simplified. I am also wondering how much processing to do
>>> in gen_lines and how much in the post pass. We shall see.
>>>
>>> Feel free to ask questions about your importer. Leo's importers are part
>>> of its crown jewels.
>>>
>>> Edward
>>>
>>
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