On 15-Aug-09, at 8:56 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Ah. I think I wasn't clear here. The goal is to provide syntax  
> highlighting hooks directly in SmalltalkEditor (see the earlier  
> discussion about the SmalltalkEditor/TextEditor distinction). These  
> hooks just happen to look a lot like the extension methods Shout  
> uses today ;-) But by the end of the day, all you will need from  
> Shout are the categories Shout-Parsing and Shout-Styling and you  
> will get highlighting without extra dependencies. If you happen to  
> write an alternative package that can be utilized with the same  
> protocol you will be able to hook this in seamlessly. And if you  
> think that syntax highlighting is a waste of memory, you can just  
> unload Shout.

Aha! In that case, thumbs up. I'm definitely happy about the  
TextEditor/SmalltalkEditor/MVC-removal work that's been happening, and  
this would make a fine addition to it.

> Great questions. I've been waiting for people to propose things  
> they'd like to see in Squeak (assuming that they are also willing to  
> work on them). And although I think we'd all like the image to get  
> smaller, more compact and simpler, I don't think we should exclude  
> anything before discussing it concretely. So yeah, I'd think that if  
> people have stuff that is broadly desirable, please do put it forward.

Ok, sounds good. "Let's discuss it" is usually a pretty good policy. :-)

Colin