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I would like to voice my concern with the complexity of these (and some other) suggestions -- is that complexity really, trully necessary?
Pressing a function key not only capitalizes the word but also expands an entire syntax structure. It is also very easy to learn, and requires only a simple module with a simple command.
I am concerned with the tendency towards unnecessary complexity.
cheers
fyodor
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> > Behalf Of Alexander Iljin
> > Sent: Wednesday, 27 September 2006 4:58 AM
> > To: BlackBox Mailing List
> > Subject: [BlackBox] - Tabbed document user interface example
> >
> > Thanks, that one worked! Quite an interesting topic on syntax
> > highlighting and "transparent" wrapper views.
>
> The work being done on syntax highlighting looks interesting.
> Whoever is working on that should also look at implementing auto-capitalisation of
> keywords as the two features are closely related.
>
> I've done some initial implementation work on this feature in the
> Gardens Point CP IDE that I'm developing and now that I've tried it,
> as a two-finger typist I suspect that I'm going to find auto-capitalisation hard to do without.
>
> Much of the BlackBox work has already been done (it's somewhat hidden in
> Epse21 by Fyodor Tkachov: http://www.zinnamturm.de/#Epse21 )
> However, as far as I know, this requires you to press a function key for each word
> you want capitalised - there is not an automatic mechanism.
>
> Suggested rules for automation are:
>
> * the keyword is only capitalised if it is completely in lowercase
> * capitalisation of the current word is considered when the next
> keyboard press is the Return, space, semicolon or left parenthesis key
> (have I forgotten anything?)
>
> There also needs to be a simple way of either (temporarily?) suppressing
> or reversing the capitalisation where it is not required:
>
> e.g.
>
> 1. VAR begin: INTEGER;
>
> 2. (* begin in a comment *)
>
> 3. "begin in a string"
>
> Strings could be detected quite easily but comments are more difficult
> as they can span more than one line.
>
> The detection of the use of lowercase keywords as identifiers requires
> more rigorous parsing than is otherwise necessary.
> However, these are hopefully rare occurrences that could be manually suppressed or converted.
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp
>
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