[Edu-sig] re: Where mathematics comes from

[Kirby Urner]

At 10:08 AM 1/27/2003 -0500, Arthur wrote:
> >As a cross language guy it should be up your ally.  Designed to work with
>many, many languages - that is as to basic editor functionality like keyword
>syntaxing etx.  >Highly customizable. Create and play with the
>local.properties file, which overrides the global.properties file.

Yes.  I use gVim for that now -- has lexers for over a 100 languages
and markups.


>In fact, I'll give *you* an assignment.  How about adding a J Langauge lexer
>to scintilla.  Shouldn't be too hard - particularly as, from my little
>expereince with J, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to lex.
>
>Art

Yeah not a whole lot to do.  If I use the color coding of the J IDE,
then there's green for comments, blue for quoted strings, and red for
the few control words (end. do. while. etc.).  And that's it. Most of
the 100+ primitives are things like [: @: +: ^ % etc., and they stand
out without any color coding.

So far though, I don't see a need for an external editor, given J
comes with one of its own that's well integrated.

Kirby