Re: [Schemeway-user] newbie -- glad to be on board -- a couple of issues...

[Jean R. <jea...@sy...>]

> 
> First of all, which version of SchemeScript and Eclipse are you using?

Eclipse 3.1.0
SchemeScript 0.4.0

> 
>  > 1) syntax highlighting not consistent across scheme file extensions:
>  > By changing the order of the extension lists (in plugin.xml), I saw the 
>  > behaviour of the highlighting change -- it seems to behave consistently and 
>  > properly w/ the 1st extension (*.ss in my case) and not properly for the others. 
>  >   e.g. comments aren't green and strings are wonky in *.ssi files.
> 
> You have to change the extensions for the 'documentSetup' extension
> point too (also in the plugin.xml file).

I changed the extensions in both org.eclipse.ui.editors and 
org.eclipse.core.filebuffers.documentSetup, the lists are in the same order, and 
the mis-behaviour is confirmed.

> 
>  > 2) Speaking of strings!!  Once I close the quote, I can't modify the string.  I 
>  > have to delete it and retype it in from scratch and hope I don't make a mistake. 
>  >   That's not right.  Am I missing something?  If this is part of the syntax-tree 
>  > magic of Eclipse, it's a bad idea, IMO.
> 
> Are you using Eclipse 3.1? This problem has been reported by a
> colleague of mine on 3.1. I'll look into it in the next couple of
> weeks (I'll have to install 3.1 first...;-)

;-(  I'm afraid so...

> 
>  > 3) tutti-frutti parenthesis are super for editing s-expression-based source 
>  > files.  Kate has those -- check it out.  Could such a feature be available in 
>  > schemeway?
> 
> I don't have Kate installed. What do you mean by "tutti-frutti"? 

The latest kate does this real pretty :)   in the hiliting definitions, they 
define different colours for brackets1, brackets2, brackets3, etc... I'll send 
you a .png directly, Dominique.  Bottom-line is that you can tell at a glance 
which bracket matches which.

> 
> 
> Thanks for your interest!

Likewise -- for a moment I thought this list was dead .

-jean