IDE for ConTeXt on linux

IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Uwe Koloska]

Hello happy contextuals,

is there someone out there knowing about a nice ide for ConTeXt?  I mostly 
need some syntax highligthing so an AucTeX with ConTeXt mode will be 
enough.  Unfortunately the context.el is not able to run on (my?) XEmacs 
(it looks like it is bound to Emacs).

If there is nothing like XEmacs + AucTeX + refTeX + speedbar I will think 
about some other editors.  Or is someone there who can point me to some 
information necessary to incorporate ConTeXt mode to AucTeX?

Thank you,
Uwe

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Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Berend de Boer]

Uwe Koloska wrote:

> is there someone out there knowing about a nice ide for ConTeXt?  I mostly 
> need some syntax highligthing so an AucTeX with ConTeXt mode will be 
> enough.  Unfortunately the context.el is not able to run on (my?) XEmacs 
> (it looks like it is bound to Emacs).

I don't know xemacs. Did you use the latest context.el? What kind of 
errors do you get?

> If there is nothing like XEmacs + AucTeX + refTeX + speedbar I will think 
> about some other editors.  Or is someone there who can point me to some 
> information necessary to incorporate ConTeXt mode to AucTeX?

reftex + speedbar is very, very latex specific.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Hraban]

Uwe Koloska wrote:
> is there someone out there knowing about a nice ide for ConTeXt?  I mostly
> need some syntax highligthing so an AucTeX with ConTeXt mode will be

I'm working with N-Edit on Linux; but it does only general TeX highlighting,
no more help.
On MacOS I'm using Alpha -- it's great with OzTeX, but does only LaTeX.
But Alpha is a capable editor, based on TCL/TK, and also available for 
Linux. (I was just to lazy to look after it, since N-Edit does fit most
of my needs.)

I tried some TeX helper apps, but they had too much "hard coded" (.dvi etc.)

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Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Uwe Koloska]

Berend wrote on Samstag,  2. Dezember 2000 19:53:
>Uwe Koloska wrote:
>> is there someone out there knowing about a nice ide for ConTeXt?  I
>> mostly need some syntax highligthing so an AucTeX with ConTeXt mode will
>> be enough.  Unfortunately the context.el is not able to run on (my?)
>> XEmacs (it looks like it is bound to Emacs).
>
>I don't know xemacs. Did you use the latest context.el?

$Header: /emacs/context.el 11    00-03-07 21:11 Berend $

> What kind of errors do you get?

AFAICS highlighting and commands like M-q, C-c C-o and C-c C-e ar working
but
- imenu (maybe because XEmacs has a different menu package)
- outline-minor-mode

and because I mostly need the menu, the conclusion was "it doesn't work for 
me".  I have looked into it, but I am not a great lisp hacker, so ...

BTW: is it possible to go from an error in the log directly to the right 
place in the document?

>> If there is nothing like XEmacs + AucTeX + refTeX + speedbar I will
>> think about some other editors.  Or is someone there who can point me to
>> some information necessary to incorporate ConTeXt mode to AucTeX?
>
>reftex + speedbar is very, very latex specific.

Uuuuh, really?  I didn't looked into it, but a structured listing of the 
current document and some help by setting references (buttons and so on!) 
would be very nice.

Anyway, if there is no other system out there in the wilderness, I will 
start looking deeper into the problems I found and maybe some day there 
will be some answer to the question ;-))

Uwe

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Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Berend de Boer]

Uwe Koloska wrote:

> $Header: /emacs/context.el 11    00-03-07 21:11 Berend $

Hmm, perhaps try:

	http://www.pobox.com/~berend

again. I've uploaded a slightly newer version.

> BTW: is it possible to go from an error in the log directly to the right 
> place in the document?

No, this is a wish :-)

>> reftex + speedbar is very, very latex specific.
> 
> 
> Uuuuh, really?  I didn't looked into it, but a structured listing of the 
> current document and some help by setting references (buttons and so on!) 
> would be very nice.

It is. reftex is code that has grown, but like a tree that someone had 
forgotten to cut, at least that's the way it looked to me. I've looked 
into it a few years ago. But I agree, something like reftex would be nice.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:39 AM 12/4/00 +0100, Berend de Boer wrote:

>> BTW: is it possible to go from an error in the log directly to the right 
>> place in the document?
>
>No, this is a wish :-)

Not that hard, since I let context spit out file info. I must have some
parsing code somewhere [since our editor supports is], but i must admit
that i never use it -) 

Hans
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Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Berend de Boer]

Hans Hagen wrote:

>>> BTW: is it possible to go from an error in the log directly to the right 
>>> place in the document?
>> 
>> No, this is a wish :-)
> 
> 
> Not that hard, since I let context spit out file info. I must have some
> parsing code somewhere [since our editor supports is], but i must admit
> that i never use it -) 

Uwe probably meant clicking on the error and going to the source 
document. This is almost standard functionality in emacs, but I've never 
looked into it.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Uwe Koloska]

You wrote on Montag,  4. Dezember 2000 10:48:
>> [Jump to an error with context.el is a wish]

>Not that hard, since I let context spit out file info. I must have some
>parsing code somewhere [since our editor supports is], but i must admit
>that i never use it -)

What editor did you use?  And do you know of some context awave editors 
(unix based) out there?

Uwe

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Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Uwe Koloska]

You wrote on Montag,  4. Dezember 2000 07:39:
>Uwe Koloska wrote:
>> $Header: /emacs/context.el 11    00-03-07 21:11 Berend $
>
>Hmm, perhaps try:
>
>	http://www.pobox.com/~berend
>
>again. I've uploaded a slightly newer version.

Tried it, but still no menu.

And even worse:
Auctex is disturbed after loading context.el.  So this was the main reason 
I stated context.el as "not of use for me".  And this interaction between 
(load "context") and AucTeX lies behind my possibilities as a lisp 
programmer ...

Uwe

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Re: IDE for ConTeXt on linux

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:25 PM 12/4/00 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>You wrote on Montag,  4. Dezember 2000 10:48:
>>> [Jump to an error with context.el is a wish]
>
>>Not that hard, since I let context spit out file info. I must have some
>>parsing code somewhere [since our editor supports is], but i must admit
>>that i never use it -)
>
>What editor did you use?  And do you know of some context awave editors 
>(unix based) out there?

We use an editor that we wrote ourselves long ago [in spite is what is
around today, we still use it because it provides us fast file browsing, it
understands the context project structure, it can handle [think of old dos
days] many huge files, does syntax highlighting, real time spell checking,
etc.]. It's written in modula 2 but i made a perl tk version too. Will be
available some day [actually it is but yet unfinished]. 

Hans   
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