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The application seems like a very good place to do Lisp-everywhere. In particular and because of the ability to modify the interpreter, it would be awesome to be able to use pretty-lisp client to edit the server-side code and see immediate changes.
Something I'd be curious to hear from the pretty lisp designers: what advantages do you feel this offers over an Emacs which just highlights the symbol of interest or region between the matched parens for a particular code block? By way of context, I was a test subject for a perhaps related project called Code Bubbles http://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp a while ago. Since it was for Java, a language whi…
This already exists: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/mwe-color-box.el
(you can see a screenie in http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png)
I've been wanting this sort of thing for ages. Considering how sophisticated we think we are, how the hell are we still using tools like emacs, or even VS on a daily basis? We should be indistinguishable from magic by now. This is a (small) step in the right direction. Can we please live in the future already?
Emacs is already indistinguishable from magic :). Seriously though, I actually prefer working with text, even here. Also, I think this could be improved by making "meta" symbols like defun into different shapes rather than just including them as words. So a definition would look like a different box than a normal statement. Probably the same for &optional. Of course, this wouldn't work for user-defined macros or func…
Looking sweet. The future is in structural editors. The client-server separation is a nice bonus. Unfortunately this is running up against the UI problem. How do you make this intuitive and powerful? A lot of hard work on usability is needed to get up to par with text editors. Very glad to see it being tackled.
I liked CodeBubbles, but do you have any other examples of structural editors for generic programming? Obviously, UI-centric editors and LabView are structural editors, but for very specific domains.
I've been wanting this sort of thing for ages. Considering how sophisticated we think we are, how the hell are we still using tools like emacs, or even VS on a daily basis? We should be indistinguishable from magic by now. This is a (small) step in the right direction. Can we please live in the future already?
Seconded. I made some designs for a graphical IDE like this years ago, but only on paper. I'm very happy to see someone else has done the hard work for me! I hope they'll support other languages too.
Something I'd be curious to hear from the pretty lisp designers: what advantages do you feel this offers over an Emacs which just highlights the symbol of interest or region between the matched parens for a particular code block? By way of context, I was a test subject for a perhaps related project called Code Bubbles http://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp a while ago. Since it was for Java, a language whi…
> what advantages do you feel this offers over an Emacs which just highlights the symbol of interest or region between the matched parens for a particular code block? This already exists: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/mwe-color-box.el (you can see a screenie in http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png )
Looking sweet. The future is in structural editors. The client-server separation is a nice bonus. Unfortunately this is running up against the UI problem. How do you make this intuitive and powerful? A lot of hard work on usability is needed to get up to par with text editors. Very glad to see it being tackled.
> The future is in structural editors. I liked CodeBubbles, but do you have any other examples of structural editors for generic programming? Obviously, UI-centric editors and LabView are structural editors, but for very specific domains.
I aim to write one, but that's a long time coming.
Looking sweet. The future is in structural editors. The client-server separation is a nice bonus. Unfortunately this is running up against the UI problem. How do you make this intuitive and powerful? A lot of hard work on usability is needed to get up to par with text editors. Very glad to see it being tackled.
Something I'd be curious to hear from the pretty lisp designers: what advantages do you feel this offers over an Emacs which just highlights the symbol of interest or region between the matched parens for a particular code block? By way of context, I was a test subject for a perhaps related project called Code Bubbles http://www.andrewbragdon.com/codebubbles_site.asp a while ago. Since it was for Java, a language whi…
> what advantages do you feel this offers over an Emacs which just highlights the symbol of interest or region between the matched parens for a particular code block? This already exists: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/mwe-color-box.el (you can see a screenie in http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/color-box.png )
