[mercury-users] language sensitive editors (was: Lisp-like syntax for Mercury)

[Tom Howland]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

>...
>
>There was a vogue for language-sensitive editors.  What happened to them?
>
The latest IDE's for Java come pretty close. Although the automatic 
indentation for Java that comes with recent versions of XEmacs is better 
than any I've seen from a Java IDE, current Java IDE's such as JBuilder 
are constantly parsing your source as you are typing it in, attempting 
to give you reasonable auto-completion and enumerating syntactic errors 
unobstrusively in a tree view separate from your editor pane. Unresolved 
symbols are underlined like a typo would be indicated by MS Word.

There are other things happening with Java that harken back to LISP 
machine days. There is BeanShell ( http://www.beanshell.org/ ) that is 
essentially a Java command line interpretor which reminds me of the 
Rational Ada Machine.


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