Re: Editor with syntax check

heinrich.hiemesch@online.de (Heinrich Hiemesch) writes:


> When started, the editor should read the grammar file so that one need
> only to change the grammar definitions to accomodate the editor to a
> new language. The parsers features should be:
> - minimum restrictions on the grammar
> - error tolerant on grammar
> - grammar syntax yacc/bison compatible
> - no need for any output other than
> - succeed or failed
> - cursor position at error
> - error type
> - small source ;-)
> - small memory usage


> Speed is not important as the text is scanned during input line by
> line.


You should take a look a some of the syntax-sensitive editor work done
in the 80s. In particular, I encourage you to look at Pan (a Berkeley
project I am familiar with), but there are also many others.


This paper discusses very important user-model issues of
syntax-sensitive editing.


Michael L. Van De Vanter. Practical Language-Based Editing for
Software Engineers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 896,
Springer-Verlag. 1995


(If you can't find this particular paper, there's a similar, albeit,
more general one called "Coherent user interfaces for language-based
editing systems" which is part of "Structure-based editors and
environments" book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0126818908/qid%3D937472412/002-5088209-9131823


if you can't find that either, you might peruse Michael's thesis which
is available here:


http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucb/CSD-93-726


however, because this is an older thesis it is only available as a
collection of scanned TIFF pages).


And last, but not least, all the modern technology needed to build such
an editor (including multi-language support) is described in Tim
Wagner's thesis (which I already mentioned in another post):


Tim A. Wagner. Practical Algorithms for Incremental Software Development
Environments Ph.D. Dissertation, Report No. UCB//CSD-97-946 =


http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucb/CSD-97-946


HTH,


Marat.

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