The design of a language-directed editor for block-structured languages

  • Authors:
  • Joseph M. Morris;Mayer D. Schwartz

  • Affiliations:
  • Applied Research Group, Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc.;Applied Research Group, Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc.

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA symposium on Text manipulation
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

A language-directed editor combines the text manipulation functions of a general-purpose editor with the syntax-checking functions of a compiler. It allows a user to create and modify a program in terms of its syntactic structure. The design of a user interface and an implementation for one such editor is described in language-independent terms. The design rationale is given. The implementation is outlined in terms of its major data structures.