CodeMirror, was Announcement: Homage to SWI-Prolog

Looks like CodeMirror needs a prolog mode!

Simplest thing would be ajax, but there are two ur-prolog inference engines in javascript that I know of.
The most solid is Raivo Laanemet's.

Either one would make writing a prolog mode for codemirror pretty trivial.
Prolog on the browser!
8cD




----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]>
To: Torbjörn Lager <[email protected]>
Cc: Anne Ogborn <[email protected]>; Prolog mailing list <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 4:42 AM
Subject: Re: [SWIPL] Announcement: Homage to SWI-Prolog

On 07/22/2013 01:29 PM, � wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> Sounds great! Yes, I think something like SWISH could be used as a
> point of departure when building a system for collaborative
> programming. However, as SWISH now stands each client gets its own
> "private" compartment in the dynamic db, so one would have to figure
> out a way for two or more clients to share a common compartment. Also,
> one would have to figure out how to do the editing in a collaborative
> manner. And the querying of course.

Collaborative editing is one of the things I have in mind.  CodeMirror
provides the necessary infrastructure for it.  It is used by a Mozilla
project to create a shared editor similar to etherpad, etc.  That is
a bit heavyweight cloud solution.  I would like something than only
depends on the Prolog server that is doing the work.  Capturing the
changes from CodeMirror is trivial.  I use that now for the server-side
enhanced syntax highlighting, where changes keep a mirror at the server
consistent and CodeMirror asks for enriched token sequences after it
concludes that the current set is no longer in sync with the editor.

> But I'm afraid this "one" is not going to be me, at least not now. I
> have other ideas for how to develop SWISH further. As I said earlier,
> I think it makes sense to develop an adminstrative interface to the
> server. I'm currently looking at CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org/)
> for inspiration.
>
> I think we should make an attempt at building something that appeals
> to JavaScript programmers in need of more power in terms of knowledge
> representation and inference than (say) CouchDB can provide. But it
> must be simple to use, and it should be enough to know only the basics
> of Prolog.
>
> Quoting my wife, I'm really "supposed to be on vacation now", so
> further development will likely be slow. :-(

Happy holidays :-)

    --- Jan
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