On 8/29/18, Tim Johnson <digit at sonic.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have seen all the follow-up on this thread, so I understand that the
> preference was found and this commit was retracted.  However, I just want to
> register myself as someone who uses Workspaces for more than just code.  I
> keep TODOs there, notes, and snippets of external data formats.
>
> I did dig into making a more plaintext-only or styled-text-only editing
> space in Squeak a few months back and posted a long description of my
> experiences.

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The main takeaway (without specifics, meaning I will probably
> mis-state in this email) was that it seems there has been some …
> cross-pollination (?) … between general-purpose text editing classes and
> code-oriented text editing classes over Squeak’s lifetime.  To me, it looked
> like a number of code-oriented extensions were added to non-code-specific
> classes at one point, and this seemed to expose different philosophies and
> open deep questions on this mailing list.  :)
>
> Anyway, I fear I may be hijacking this thread a bit.  Maybe I should dig up
> that old message I wrote and turn it into a Swiki page.

+1

> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
>
>> On Aug 28, 2018, at 9:33 AM, commits at source.squeak.org wrote:
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>> A new version of Tools was added to project The Inbox:
>> http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Tools-LM.827.mcz
>>
>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>
>> Name: Tools-LM.827
>> Author: LM
>> Time: 28 August 2018, 6:33:04.08317 pm
>> UUID: 07abf38e-4d17-8744-bd3d-e65285f5fb8f
>> Ancestors: Tools-cmm.826
>>
>> I would like to propose a change to the Workspace that simply enables
>> syntax highlighting by default.
>>
>> Maybe there are reasons why syntax highlighting should be disabled, but in
>> my year of Squeak experience I didn't once write anything other than code
>> into the Workspace and it was very annoying to have to enable syntax
>> highlighting manually all the time.
>>
>> =============== Diff against Tools-cmm.826 ===============
>>
>> Item was changed:
>>  ----- Method: Workspace>>initialize (in category 'initialize-release')
>> -----
>>  initialize
>>  	
>>  	super initialize.
>>  	self initializeBindings.
>>  	acceptDroppedMorphs := false.
>>  	mustDeclareVariables := false.
>> + 	environment := Environment current.
>> + 	self shouldStyle: true!
>> - 	environment := Environment current.!
>>
>>
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