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> -----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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