Re: A radical idea: a new XyWrite

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> 2) Given the speed
> of modern processors, would it be feasible to write an XPL
> interpreter in a language accessible to or hooked into (if that's
> the right phrase) existing text or 'programming'
> editors?


Can you explain that a little? Would the input be XPL and the output be,
say Python? Or are you talking about going the other way around? Or some
third alternative.



> And a related
> question:
>
> In text/programming editors such as TextMate, how difficult would it be
> to mimic the format-coding-hiding-and-revealing behaviour of XyWrite? Is
> there an editor that would make this easy to
> accomplish?     I rarely want anything approaching
> WYSIWYG, but it is much easier to write in XyWrite if the codes
> are hidden in the triangles. 


In Notepad++, what I do is set a very small font-size and very light
color for things I don't want to see most of the time. Since N++ has only
monospaced fonts, this is not a great solution. (You could hide them
totally by selecting white on white as the color of the text to hide, but
the "hidden" stuff would still take up spaces.)


When I want to see the codes, I specify "Normal Text" under the
"language" menu item.


Here are screenshots of HTML tags minimized and not minimized:



http://harrybinswanger.com/N++_screenshots.htm; eudora="autourl">
http://harrybinswanger.com/N++_screenshots.htm


> Myron