From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA03171; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:51:29 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA03164 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:51:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g42BpED19935; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:51:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from santenay.inria.fr (santenay.inria.fr [128.93.8.59]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03150; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:51:14 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 13:51:14 +0200 From: Maxence Guesdon To: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Cc: bcpierce@saul.cis.upenn.edu, warplayer@free.fr, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml IDEs for beginners? Message-Id: <20020502135114.6cc70ad1.maxence.guesdon@inria.fr> In-Reply-To: <26857.1020269383@saul.cis.upenn.edu> References: <008201c1f067$e890b560$5000a8c0@warp> <26857.1020269383@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Organization: INRIA X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 01 May 2002 12:09:43 EDT "Benjamin C. Pierce" wrote: > > About this subject, I would like to make a public Request for Features, in > > order to gather many opinions and tips about that IDE . ( which will be at > > the same time for beginners AND for experienced people ). > > My own main request for a beginner IDE is that it be (or have a switch > that makes it) _absolutely_ as simple as possible. It should provide a > few standard cursor movement and editing keybindings, standard > mouse-based selection, standard "Open" and "Save as" dialogs, a way of > taking the editing buffer and running it through OCaml, and ideally an > OCaml top level for direct interaction. Maybe a documentation browser. > Nothing else. When starting Cameleon i was told that emacs (or xemacs) would remain THE editor. So i did not try to create another one and i chose to inteface with them. But if you need a simple editor, interfacing with toplevel, then one idea could be to take efuns (the simple emacs clone developed by Fabrice Le Fessant) and add some functionnalities to it. By making it a part of Cameleon, i think the result could be what you're looking for. BTW, Cameleon includes a doc browser which lets you access source code from the doc. -- Maxence Guesdon ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners