Re: CCL Editor Extendability [Cocoa IDE v1 project]

Terje Norderhaug <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.mcl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 20, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Gail Zacharias wrote:
>>> At 2/16/2009 08:02 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>>>> My general wish for the Cocoa IDE effort is that there are well
>>>> planned hooks for us developers to extend and customize the
>>>> functionality.
>
> Customizable buffer marks would be useful for editor extensions that
> overlay rather than modify the edited content. The buffer mark based
> XML document outline implementation above can also be applied to CL
> editing features. [...]
>
> I have implemented this type of functionality by patching fred to
> notify a dialog update function about content changes on fred-update,
> ed-insert-with-undo, and the like. It would be useful for editor
> extensions if such notification features could be part of the
> implementation of the editor rather than having to be patched on.

In other words, the editor could benefit from implementing  
generalized event notifications that third party extensions can  
subscribe to.

-- Terje Norderhaug
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