[squeak-dev] Re: Shout

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Aug 16 13:11:25 UTC 2009


On 16.08.2009, at 13:34, Colin Putney wrote:

>
> 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.

I'm for having decent syntax highlighting in by default, too.

When it's in, the "colorPrint" browse option should go. What about the  
"prettyPrint" option?

>> 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. :-)


Though only if the majority of discussion is driven by Doers, not  
Bystanders.

- Bert -





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