<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">If by nano-scale you mean 'nano', then yes, that editor. I took a snapshot and put it here, I have no ida how long it remains alive:<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://pasteboard.co/37SlORCNzgln.png"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:228px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://pasteboard.co/37SlORCNzgln.png" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="228"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:228px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="228"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:228px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:268px;" width="228" height="268" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="37SlORCNzgln.png" src="cid:7627349C-7D8B-4411-8374-7A027484DF31"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="228" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://pasteboard.co/37SlORCNzgln.png" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">nano with mercury syntax highlighting - Image on Pasteboard</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://pasteboard.co/37SlORCNzgln.png" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">pasteboard.co</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br><div>I modified the Prolog mode to work a little better with Mercury, it's by no means perfect, there are some odd colouring issues when I have a string containing certain escape sequences, but bearing in mind nano uses simple regex filters to figure out what to colour, I am still very happy with the way it works.</div><div><br></div><div>I wrote a tool to use the 'formatter hook' in nano, so that, after a compile, if there are errors, I just do 'Meta-F' and it inserts the errors messages into the source file, as a comment, and the hook I wrote (in Mercury) adjusts the errors to work with my syntax highlighting, another small image:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://pasteboard.co/Uu5jsXV8YqEX.png"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://pasteboard.co/Uu5jsXV8YqEX.png" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:114px;" width="300" height="114" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="Uu5jsXV8YqEX.png" src="cid:C5862EB6-2AE4-43EF-87C4-27BE3F1CD74C"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://pasteboard.co/Uu5jsXV8YqEX.png" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Mercury with nano - Image on Pasteboard</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://pasteboard.co/Uu5jsXV8YqEX.png" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">pasteboard.co</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div><div></div><div>The custom formatter hook is here on github: <a href="https://github.com/emacstheviking/mercury-pberr">https://github.com/emacstheviking/mercury-pberr</a></div><div>I have some other stuff that's mercury related there, I think I've troubled this list with it before?! :D</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--- mercury nano configuration file, ~/.nano/mercury.nanorc ---</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--- BEGIN ---</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">## Mercury, ported and adjusted from Prolog mode.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">syntax "mercury" "\.m$"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">comment "%"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">## Written in Mercury for Nano+Mercury, this will interleave</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">## a FOO.err file when called from FOO.m via Meta-F (formatter)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">formatter pberr nanoformatter</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Integers and floats</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color yellow "(^| |=)[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Variables</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color magenta "(^|[[:blank:]]|$|,)[A-Z_!][a-zA-Z0-9_\.\:]*($|[[:blank:]]|,|$)"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Anonymous variable '_'</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color yellow "(^|[[:blank:]]|$|,)_($|[[:blank:]]|,|$)"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Functions</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color cyan "(^|[[:blank:]])\w+$"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color cyan "\(|$|\[|\]|,|=|\\="</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Comments</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color green "(^|[[:blank:]])%.*$"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Strings</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color yellow "\".*\""</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># compiler :-</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color cyan "^:- .*$"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># custom errors for pberr</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color red "^%E.*$"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Reminders</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color yellow "(BUG|DEBUG|FIXME|IDEA|NOTE|REVIEW|TEMP|TODO|WARNING|XXX|TOFU)"</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New"># Spaces in front of tabs</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">color ,red " +<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>+"</font></div></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--- END ---</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 18 Aug 2023, at 14:35, Volker Wysk <post@volker-wysk.de> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Am Freitag, dem 18.08.2023 um 14:25 +0100 schrieb Sean Charles</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">(emacstheviking):</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">LOL! I am a lapsed emacs user of 30 years... vscode stole my affections,<br>saying that, I use nano exclusivly for Mercury, I've written a few tools<br>to help me out, and all in all, nano is just fine!<br></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">You mean that nano-scale editor? For real? Does it even have a Mercury (or</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Prolog) mode with syntax highlighting, like Emacs does?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 18 Aug 2023, at 14:24, Mark Brown <mark@mercurylang.org> wrote:<br><br>On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 6:26 PM Sean Charles (emacstheviking)<br><objitsu@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">My question is simple this: is what I have done 'ok' or is it a diabolical insult to all that as beautiful and holy in the Mercury world?<br></blockquote><br>You mean the planet? :-P<br><br>To answer your question in general, the measure of what you write<br>depends on your intended audience. It's the same for programming as it<br>is for other kinds of writing. 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