From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-10-10T02:38:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Extension Language for a Text Editor

* gabriele renzi <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> [Oct, 09 2003 09:10]:
> the learning curve for casual user would be really less hard, and it
> won't collide with already existing lisp based editors ;)
True, but this isn't going to be an editor for the casual user either
;-)
> Well, given that tab expansion, string replacing/finding,
> byte/word/line count, justification and other stuff can be easily done
> with one line of ruby...
But remember that we're not going to operate on a File, or a String as
such.
> Anyway, I think the apis you make available from the core of the
> editor would be something really important in this analisys.
Yeah, but one could assume that they'd be the same for both languages.
> >* Is Ruby good enough for the task at the moment, performance wise?
> Sure :)
Heh, short and to the point ;-).
> >Also, is there any way of redefining the // operator for constructing
> >regular expression objects?  I'm planning on implementing a new regex
> >syntax for the editor (to make searches/substitutions easier to
> >describe).
> well, you have the soruce code, dig in it and change what you need, if
> you really need it :)
If I go with Ruby I don't want to alter the core of the language.
> Anyway, why would you do such a thing ? the regex language is quite
> standardized now, why would you change it?
Because the standardized regex language we have now sucks, like German,
or French.  (Only kidding, only kidding.  I love French.  German sucks
though. (Am I still kidding?) ;-)
Seriously, see the earlier reply I wrote.  I want simple, easy, yet
expressive.  I don't want (?:...) and "\\\\".
	nikolai

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