[DrJava] Tidbit from CHI

[Peter C. <cen...@ri...>]

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/lapis/

This Java-based editor uses structure information inferred from 
user examples to perform multiple edits on multiple regions of 
Java source, HTML, or raw text at the same time.  The source is 
available under the GPL.  We might be able to use this as an 
example of potential implementation options for DrJava.  I plan 
to attend their demonstration at CHI tomorrow, and if anyone 
would like to see the extended abstract, I can loan them my 
conference proceedings book after I get back in town on Friday.

While this would be rather lame compared to their system, we 
might be able to use the same Jakarta-regexp library that they 
use for some of their internal search processing.  I don't 
recommend actually porting anything resembling their full 
selection system to DrJava, as this would massively increase the 
complexity of our code and UI.  Some of the pattern-matching 
logic may be useful in redesigning the reduced model, but I 
suspect that its fuzzy-logic matching system will not be 
rigorous enough for our needs.

In any case, this thing looks really cool.  :-)

--
Peter