<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:45 PM, David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com" target="_blank">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>And I will agree to pretend that it was morally justified. Which in this case might actually be so ;-)<br>
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I use workspaces for all sorts of things unrelated to "coding". But perhaps some creative<br>
person could come up with a convenient way to apply syntax highlighting to specific portions<br>
of a workspace? It might be nice if I could have a workspace that contains my grocery shopping<br>
list and does syntax highlighting on only the portions of the shopping list that I actually<br>
intended to be interpreted as Smalltalk expressions. But I would be very annoyed if some of<br>
my workspaces started giving syntax errors related to toothpaste, toilet paper, and six-packs<br>
of beer.<br>
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Or perhaps a smart workspace could distinguish the difference between sections of text<br>
that were probably intended as Smalltalk, versus text that was more likely intended as<br>
a shopping list?<br>
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Dave<br>
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<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>It seems to me like Squeak just needs some different tools. A workspace strikes me as specifically related to code. I mean the right click menu mentions inspecting, debugging, printing, etc. All things that have as little relevance to your grocery list as syntax highlighting would.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you need a quick grocery list, why don't we knock up a "Todo" list app, throw it on Squeakmap, and have install a menu entry when you load it. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
We could grab Cuis' text editor project, and throw it up on Squeakmap, and now people who wanted to write up a quick message or blog post wouldn't have to abuse what is clearly a code tool.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br>Rather than trying to overload what a workspace recognizes as text or code, we could just add tools more suited to the work you want while making the workspace more suited to the job it was designed for. Coding.<br><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Note that my tone is somewhat provocative here, deliberately so, but hey you guys started it, what with your drone strikes and all!<br></div></div>