+1

I've always wondered why people tried to put so much code in a workspace 
where it remains anonymous and is so easily misplaced.

Cheers,
Bob

On 9/30/13 4:44 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> Why not just define a class called MyWorkspace and you'll have a
> "workspace tool" that can have multiple "named" workspaces (the
> class-side method names) and even let you Compose Methods (call those
> workspaces, by name, from other workspaces).  Syntax highlighting is
> on by default in said browser.  Did I mention these workspaces can be
> verisoned with full SCM capability?  :)
>
> Workspace is not a CodeHolder.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Jeff Gonis <jeff.gonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:45 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> And I will agree to pretend that it was morally justified. Which in this
>>> case might actually be so ;-)
>>>
>>> I use workspaces for all sorts of things unrelated to "coding". But
>>> perhaps some creative
>>> person could come up with a convenient way to apply syntax highlighting to
>>> specific portions
>>> of a workspace? It might be nice if I could have a workspace that contains
>>> my grocery shopping
>>> list and does syntax highlighting on only the portions of the shopping
>>> list that I actually
>>> intended to be interpreted as Smalltalk expressions. But I would be very
>>> annoyed if some of
>>> my workspaces started giving syntax errors related to toothpaste, toilet
>>> paper, and six-packs
>>> of beer.
>>>
>>> Or perhaps a smart workspace could distinguish the difference between
>>> sections of text
>>> that were probably intended as Smalltalk, versus text that was more likely
>>> intended as
>>> a shopping list?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Note that my tone is somewhat provocative here, deliberately so, but hey you
>> guys started it, what with your drone strikes and all!
>>
>>
>>
>

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