Re: [Texmacs-dev] Literate Programming in TeXmacs?

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 05/21/2007 10:07 PM, Todd Wilson wrote:
> Felix Breuer wrote:
> > So, having thought about both approaches I would also go for approach
> > (2) (as in Joris' numbering), *but* I would like to point out one severe
> > difficulty: generating source code makes debugging much less
> > convenient, as the line numbers a compiler complains about refer to the
> > generated code and not the TeXmacs document.
>
> A simple solution to this would be to have the LP code environment put 
> line numbers on the code for display.

Would you like to look for line numbers yourself if you have a computer 
in front of you who could be slaved to do that?

> > So much for the history. In recent months I have done some thinking on
> > LP for TeXmacs albeit without writing a single line of code. For what
> > it's worth I will post these "philosophical" thoughts of mine
> > separately.

> Another useful feature would be the ability to parse compiler output and 
> locate and/or cycle through positions in the code with errors, as the 
> Emacs compiling modes allow one to do.

I don't think that would be terribly hard, but it is sad to hear that 
TeXmacs is so far away from Emacs.

> And how about automatic syntax highlighting?

Oh, TeXmacs seems to be a better WORD with no support for programming?
How close is TeXmacs to Emacs? Could one perhaps reuse some .el files?

Ralf