What system currently governs Syntax Highlighting in the editor?
By example:
If you start typing a number you get a certain colour.
If you type a letter you get another colour.
Also, how are Special Combinations currently triggered by the parser?
AO.
On Sun., Jul. 30, 2023, 11:51 Raul Miller, <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see two possible ways to implement this sort of functionality.
>
> (A) Create a duplicate copy of J's parser, which would run in the
> highlighting environment, to identify regions corresponding to
> "special code", or
>
> (B) Update J itself to provide a "dry run" mechanism to identify these
> regions in a potential sentence (if and only if the sentence was
> valid, though maybe that could be relaxed to "has a valid suffix").
>
> Neither task is trivial. Either approach would require creating a
> well-defined interface for this process.
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 1:41 PM Hauke Rehr <hauke.r...@uni-jena.de> wrote:
> >
> > my 2 cents
> >
> > I’m quite satisfied with the highlight I get when
> > writing J in Vim; and with the highlight I get when
> > typesetting J in TeX with minted. Neither do custom
> > handling of Special Combinations, though.
> >
> > IIRC, Michal rolled his own for his jprez stuff
> > (editor part).
> > @Michal: Did you consider highlighting SCs differently?
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > I’d be glad to have a visual indication that would
> > let me learn to use them without always having to
> > look them up (I still don’t grok even -:J).
> >
> > Hauke
> >
> >
> > Am 30.07.23 um 19:17 schrieb Henry Rich:
> > > What a great idea! I know nothing about Syntax Highlighting but I
> would
> > > love to see it in the display.
> > >
> > > There will be a problem keeping the highlighting up to date with the
> > > evolving support for special combinations.
> > >
> > > Henry Rich
> > >
> > > On 7/30/2023 12:59 PM, Ak O wrote:
> > >> Hi all, I hope you are all well.
> > >>
> > >> Two questions.
> > >>
> > >> 1. Is there a way to include Special Combinations in Syntax
> Highlighting?
> > >>
> > >> Meaning some visual indicator that an arrangement of Operators
> triggers a
> > >> Special Combination.
> > >>
> > >> 2. What page should I be looking up to understand the significance of
> > >> Syntax Highlights.
> > >> I am not sure what exactly that is called.
> > >>
> > >> For example:
> > >> Something(...) NB. Colour change to 'Something'
> > >> Vs.
> > >> Something (...) NB. No Colour changes to 'Something'
> > >>
> > >> Which page do I find that type of information?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thank you,
> > >>
> > >> AO.
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