[Cuis] Overriding the text styler

[H. Hirzel]

I think this is a great start to play with.

- elegant
- force-fit

job. Easy to understand.

--Hannes

On 6/17/15, Phil (list) <pbpublist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 14:12 -0400, Phil (list) wrote:
>> Juan,
>>
>> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 09:10 -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> > Hi Phil,
>> >
>> > I think we should properly support your use case, and the possibility of
>> >
>> > DSL workspaces with specific stylers.
>> >
>> > Do you have a working OMeta Styler?
>> >
>>
>> Not yet...
>>
>> > If you have at least a barely working one, we'll work out the proper
>> > styler selection for each code editor. Please don't work too much on the
>> >
>> > styler selection, Once we have more than one styler, I'd like to
>> > experiment with this a bit, and I don't want to risk you wasting too
>> > much effort before we agree on how to do it.
>> >
>>
>> That's all I needed to hear.  I will get an OMeta styler working ASAP so
>> that we have something to play around with.  Initially I'll take the
>> same approach that it uses for the compiler: use the same API as the
>> existing Smalltalk styler.
>>
>
> OK, I now have a minimally functioning styler for OMeta (at least in the
> code browser).  It's an elegant yet manual, force-fit, hack-and-slash
> job: I've overridden the handful of methods that reference
> SHTextStylerST80 to use a global variable containing the styler to use
> and can alternate between the two stylers before opening a code browser
> window.  It's one or the other right now: either you're using the
> existing styler and only Smalltalk code gets styled or you're using my
> new styler and only the OMeta code gets styled.  Is this far enough
> along that you'd want to start playing with it?  If so, I'll mop up a
> bit and push out to github.
>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Juan Vuletich
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phil
>
>
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