My work would be usable only by those who can run Visual Studio binaries, either the paid ones (preferably and easier) or the free Visual Studio Shell.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > What Greg was describing would be optional (and out of scope for many > users). > > FYI, > > -- > Raul > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Peter B. Kessler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I hope you can make this kind of change uniform, so that if I were > debugging > > or tracing, etc., I saw my program in the same character set that I used > to > > write my program. Otherwise I can't use the powerful parallel processor > > that is my vision system to match things up. > > > > ... peter > > > > > > On 04/04/13 12:44, Greg Borota 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
