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 TAA23428; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:06:31 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA18298 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:06:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mz2.forethought.net (mzpi4.forethought.net [216.241.36.13]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h6BH6TT13602 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:06:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [216.241.35.41] (helo=swordfish) by mz2.forethought.net with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19b1Lo-0008Hz-KT for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:06:28 -0600 Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19b1Lt-0003n0-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:06:33 -0600 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:06:33 -0600 From: Matt Gushee To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Seeking feedback on a project Message-ID: <20030711170632.GD4031@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr References: <20030711004706.GB4031@swordfish> <001401c34788$19f1b0a0$9600a8c0@maison> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <001401c34788$19f1b0a0$9600a8c0@maison> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; gushee:01 mgushee:01 havenrock:01 caml-list:01 type-:01 camlp:01 englewood:01 manure:01 ignores:01 --lao:01 merel:01 ocaml:01 0200,:01 wrote:03 lex:04 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Uh-oh! Scope creep! Glad I'm not obligated to do this :-) On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:40:36AM +0200, Benoît de boursetty wrote: > One thing you should not forget if you start with this is support for > autocompletion on tab... which is a primordial feature of today's CLIs. Ouch. That had occurred to me too, but I wouldn't know how to do it. As far as I know, OCaml has no built-in mechanism for processing raw keystrokes. > One of the things I would be tremendously looking forward to having is > "typed autocompletion". Yes, that would be nice. I think the hard part is implementing tab-completion in the first place. If I can do that, it shouldn't be much extra work to make it type- (or context-) sensitive. > One random thought, please make it easy to use with Ocaml yacc/lex > and or Camlp4. -D That sounds like a good idea, but could you be more specific about what you mean? -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee@havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.) ------------------- 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