---Raul Miller wrote: > It would be interesting if the session manager code which > colorizes text within the session were itself written in J. > > However, since this expression apparently colorizes every > displayed line and updates the display every time a > character is typed, there might be efficiency constraints. > > Also, the current mechanism seems to be based solely on > characteristics of > the raw text. For example, if you configure your system such > that adverbs display in green, and type example=:/ then the > word 'example' will not be displayed in green. So this > proposed change would be a major departure from > how the session manager currently works.
Thanks for investigating this idea further, I don't really have an idea of how easy it would be to implement such a scheme, which is why I asked if it would be possible in an earlier post in this thread. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
