From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T03:21:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Document tools

On Sunday 08 September 2002 01:06 pm, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Albert Wagner <alwagner@tcac.net> writes:
> > > >   "Show me all the installed classes that have the Enumerable
> > > >    module."
> > >
> > > RDoc could do both of those once I have the 'ri' stuff integrated.
> >
> > Dave, do you realize that you have a great beginning towards a Ruby
> > Refactoring Browser?
>
> Well.. remember RDoc's analysis is static. However, ripping out RDocs
> parsers wouldn't be too painful: it's basically a single source file,
> made by combining and hacking the one that comes with irb.
>
I know :-)  I just spent several weeks doing just that as an exercise for 
myself.  I thought it would be cool to have an editor that was truely Ruby 
aware, but quickly got in over my head.  I don't have the background:  I stay 
confused about the distinctions between lexers and parsers.
>
> Dave