From: Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt>
To: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
Cc: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Favorite OCaml editor?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:14:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B434947.6060406@inescporto.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4313FB.6070808@frisch.fr>
To the OP:
Eclipse + OcalIDE
Alain Frisch wrote:
> On 05/01/2010 09:13, Jon Harrop wrote:
>> I think the best way to write a decent editor for OCaml would be to
>> write one
>> using LablGTK for the GUI and camlp4 to parse OCaml code.
>
> It is indeed very tempting to reuse an existing OCaml parser in order to
> support syntax-related features (indentation, coloring, and whatnot);
> especially if you can then support syntax extension properly.
>
> The problem is that the editor is supposed to work even with partial or
> syntactically invalid code, which is not the case for the OCaml parsers
> (built-in or Camlp4-based). It would be great to have a parser for OCaml
> syntax, with robust error recovery. Has anyone worked on such a project?
>
>
This is indeed a thorny issue. The developer of OcalIDE is taking
another stab at this but this time using Camlp4 [1].
BTW the way the Haskell eclipse plug-in [2] also has to deal with such
issues. In their case they use a generic library and API [3] that should
be usable by any number of IDEs and editors (already used by emacs). May
be of interest to you also.
[1] http://ocaml.eclipse.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=226
[2] http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://code.google.com/p/scion-lib/
Hugo F.
> Alain
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 6:03 Grant Rettke
2010-01-05 6:08 ` [Caml-list] " Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2010-01-05 6:22 ` Mike Lin
2010-01-05 6:36 ` Alexander Voinov
2010-01-05 7:01 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2010-01-05 7:31 ` Daniel Bünzli
2010-01-05 11:28 ` Jon Harrop
2010-01-05 16:55 ` Laurent Le Brun
2010-01-05 8:13 ` Jon Harrop
2010-01-05 10:27 ` Alain Frisch
2010-01-05 10:44 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2010-01-05 13:00 ` Alain Frisch
2010-01-05 13:11 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2010-01-05 14:14 ` Hugo Ferreira [this message]
2010-01-05 8:45 ` Maxence Guesdon
2010-01-05 11:23 ` Jon Harrop
2010-01-05 10:50 ` Maxence Guesdon
2010-01-05 10:24 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2010-01-05 11:02 ` Richard Jones
2010-01-05 10:58 ` Richard Jones
2010-01-05 12:21 ` Florent Ouchet
2010-01-05 17:32 ` Tim Hanson
2010-01-05 13:09 ` Martin DeMello
2010-01-05 6:21 Gaius Hammond
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