From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-10-11T09:05:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Project suggestion: Ruby code indenter

* Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> [Oct, 11 2003 01:50]:
>
[me asking if it would be like indent(1)]
>
> Precisely like indent.  Say it were called 'rindent', then from within
> Vim (or any editor; that's the point) you can run
>
>   :%!rindent
>
> and have it done nicely.  Obviously you're still going to use your
> editor's indenting features as you type and want to correct small
> blocks.
>
OK.  The good thing with Ruby, over C, for this kind of thing is that
most people seem to keep to a rather similar way of 'type-setting' their
programs.  We could perhaps use this to our advantage somehow.
>
> Also, Nikolai, I thought this would be perfect for you, as you have
> already done it in VimL :-* and are gearing up to do it in pcpEdit in
> Ruby ;)
>
Haha, OK.  I'll see what I can do.  I've always wondered if it would be
possible to do this kind of thing with a yacc/racc or such similar.
pcpEdit heh.  That will not be the official name ;-).  I'm thinking of
'ned', for Nikolai EDitor, or simply the name Ned (as in Flanders) in
tribute of editors such as Sam, Wily, and family.  Other, more
silly/stupid names were scamacs (emacs spelled backwards prepended to
emacs, with e's removed) and scam-e (emacs spelled backwards).  And
also, I haven't decided on Ruby yet, but yes, it will probably be Ruby
actually.  I think it can work rather well.
	nikolai

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