Re: Fwd: Cocoa IDE v1 project

On Feb 16, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Toomas Altosaar wrote:

>> On Feb 16, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Gail Zacharias wrote:
>>>
>>>> In what ways is Fred better than our current editor?
>>>>
>>>
>>> full font support allowing useful things such as syntax  
>>> colorization.
>>>
>>
>> In more general terms, Fred provides good support for adding custom
>> features that improves it as a LISP developer editor.
>>
>> It could go further though. I've missed some capabilities in the
>> underlying datamodel. From work a few years back (so take my
>> recollection with a grain of salt) I found that it wasn't trivial to
>> make Fred hide content in a document (without deleting the text). I
>> was considering making a Fred extension to collapse e.g. a
>> function/class definition (or other LISP form) and leave just a
>> short clickable label/graphic in place. I missed being able to
>> insert non-character entities in the Fred document data sequence,
>> which would have facilitated many interesting developer enhancements
>> including the collapse feature mentioned above.
>>
>> -- Terje
>
> On the same theme: the ability to cut and paste graphical output of
> evaluated forms, e.g., graphs, charts, simulations, animations, etc.
> in some jpg/pdf/mov/etc format into and out of the editor would add
> much value to experimental and developmental work.
>
> For example, something similar to what Mathematica has been doing
> with their "notebook" editor for 20+ years already, but perhaps not
> in such an integrated manner (their output appears in the editor
> immediately below the evaluated form).
>
> Just the ability to copy and paste things other than text could be
> very useful, e.g., results of intricate/large tests that cannot be
> repeated without much (loading) time and (cpu) effort. It would be
> good to see the results right in the editor. What happens now is that
> a separate "report" needs to be written/remembered/referred to using
> some word processing software to save results.
>
> Would it be difficult to generalize the editor to handle things other
> than text, e.g., image, movies, etc.?

I believe PLT Scheme does this.

LW
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