On 10 April 2015 at 07:26, Lee F. <REMOVED_UPON_REQUEST_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> A little off topic, but food for thought.
>
> […]
There was a time when Abstract-Syntax editor were hype (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor for some very limited
background). They have fallen out of fashion though…
They left some legacy on the text editors (in vim, the `%`, `]]`,
`a]`, `a)`, `it`, &c. moves come to mind, the surround plugin too).
Some tools allow handling of the abstract syntax. For example spatch
(
https://github.com/facebook/pfff/wiki/Spatch) allow you to write
patches that are applied to the symbol tree rather than the actual
text. These are off-line (i.e. non-interactive) counterparts to the
editor you muse about: they are the `sed` to your imagined `vi`.
There is also the Go approach: pipe code through the go-fmt tool
before committing. (Not compulsory, but some project adopt it as a
convention.) This ensures that all committed code is formatted
according to The Rules.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Proust
Received on Fri Apr 10 2015 - 12:00:10 CEST