> > > generalization of modal user interfaces that has a "language-oriented > > programming" flavor. > Applying traditionally-sexp structural-based editing to non-sexp > languages seems relevant to non-sexp Racket2 syntax (e.g., Honu), and > other non-sexp languages.
The generalization I'm referring to there is actually about Vim-style modal interfaces -- a totally separate idea unrelated to language syntax. The generalization you're talking about is intriguing as well, and I recently learned about this library <https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter> which could probably be leveraged to get language-agnostic structural editing. There was also some work on DrRacket (nee DrScheme): > http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/plt/software/divascheme/ Divascheme looks great! The interface in symex.el is really similar to it, as a matter of fact (which may be because they are both similar to Vim...). If there are any features here that you miss and would like to see in Emacs, I'm happy to look into adding it to symex since it seems like they have a similar conceptual approach. In addition to deriving structural editing from language descriptions, > there's also opportunity for DSL/macros/learning additional > language-sensitive structural transformations (I couldn't see whether > symex.el tackles these). Not at the moment. Symex operates at the syntactic level of the code and not the semantic level, so only syntactic transformations are possible for now. Xah Lee (a prolific and occasionally iconoclastic Emacs blogger) also talks about some semantic-level transformations here <http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/why_i_despise_paredit.html> -- it would be great to have such functionality at some point, and again, maybe tree-sitter or LSP <https://langserver.org/> can help with this. On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:37 AM Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 06:40:05PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > > > For structured editing related work in sexp, of course there's Emacs > > structural operations that have been in there forever (not well-known, > > Certainly not well known. > I've been using emacs for decades, and I never heard of them. > What are they? Do you have a ilnk to their documentation? > > -- hendrik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/20190801103655.3cwjoqc3ahdqj4ci%40topoi.pooq.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CACQBWF%3DkwvQ2Mqeq%2B9k9t3mf9ZUKk-oshoCS%3DgaeTZYiq3A5GQ%40mail.gmail.com.
