Which is why I asked a while ago where GTK Term lexer file was located in SVN...
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > You still have to define the rules. > > -- > Raul > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think lexical analysis (if I recall correctly form school days time) > > would help you with this. Which GTK terminal already does I think. This > is > > independent of J Engine. > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> The first thing to do, I think, would be to identify which character > >> sequences get replaced (and when and where). > >> > >> For example, does $ (without a trailing . or :) get replaced with a > >> rho? And, if so, is this universal (even in literal contexts?) > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> -- > >> Raul > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > What I have in mind is just a display thing. Say you Select All and > >> > Copy/Paste the content of the editor window, you still get ASCII chars > >> only. > >> > > >> > E.g: In GTK Term whenever you enter y as the verb argument it changes > >> color > >> > and becomes italic (at least under Windows). What if you were to > display > >> > the omega character instead? But behind the scenes you still hold y > ASCII > >> > char indeed. Maybe those who already worked on GTK editor could add > their > >> > feedback. > >> > > >> > And this could be an optional setting which one could turn on and off > as > >> > wanted. Just a display setting. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> >> I'm not sure this is really such a good idea. J is its own language > and > >> >> mapping some J symbols to APL ones could be misleading. Also, as > much > >> as I > >> >> like the look of APL, I'm happy not to deal with the continuing > hiccups > >> >> caused by the character set. > >> >> > >> >> At last year's APL Moot, I showed my fellow mooters that I could cut > and > >> >> paste Chinese characters into an emacs session with no apparent > problem > >> but > >> >> some of the APL characters from a website did not come over cleanly. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Greg Borota <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > I think it might be a quicker path to use ASCII behind the scenes > >> still > >> >> but > >> >> > have some editor/term software (Visual Studio in this case) display > >> words > >> >> > of interest as APL symbols. Like in MS Word where you type (c) and > >> it's > >> >> > automatically displayed as Copyright Symbol ©. > >> >> > > >> >> > This could even be an Options settings where one could turn it on > and > >> >> off. > >> >> > I think this is doable with reasonable effort with Visual Studio, > but > >> I > >> >> am > >> >> > thinking the idea could be used with Qt or GKT also. Unless I am > >> missing > >> >> > something which I might see only after starting the actual > >> implementation > >> >> > :-) > >> >> > > >> >> > I am very new to APL land, but I really liked the APL symbols. > When I > >> >> first > >> >> > started with computers I was puzzled why math symbols were not used > >> by C > >> >> (C > >> >> > was my first higher level language after Assembly)... > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM, PMA <[email protected]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > > What a wonderful idea! I wish I had > >> >> > > the competence & time to pursue it. > >> >> > > > >> >> > > Pete > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > J. Patrick Harrington wrote: > >> >> > > > >> >> > >> ... My dream would be to have J expressible in APL-like > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> characters (there isn't a one-to-one correspondance, though most > >> >> symbols > >> >> > >> could be carried over). Then J could have two > >> >> > >> forms, like hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian: ASCII J for use > >> >> > >> in emails & everywhere, and APL-like J for use on your main > >> >> > >> machine: more compact and beautiful to look at. I really hope > >> >> > >> that such a project gets under way. > >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > >> >> > > For information about J forums see > >> >> http://www.jsoftware.com/**forums.htm > >> >> > <http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm> > >> >> > > > >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >> > For information about J forums see > >> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Devon McCormick, CFA > >> >> ^me^ at acm. > >> >> org is my > >> >> preferred e-mail > >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
