[Ohrrpgce] SVN: james/3886 a work-in-progress editor definition file

[Mike Caron]

On 10/14/2010 0:07, James Paige wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 08:27:34PM -0700, Jay Tennant wrote:
>>> From: James Paige<Bob at HamsterRepublic.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:36 PM
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:23:23PM -0700, subversion at HamsterRepublic.com wrote:
>>>> james
>>>> 2010-10-13 19:23:23 -0700 (Wed, 13 Oct 2010)
>>>> 42
>>>> a work-in-progress editor definition file
>>>
>>> I am pretty happy with the RELOAD Editor. Has anybody else tried it yet?
>>> (CTRL+R from the main menu in custom)
>>>
>>> However, I am seriously considering making an actual
>>> editor-editor-editor. It would be similar to the RELOAD editor except it
>>> would strictly enforce the structure of a .editor file, and would
>>> automate the creation of each widget type.
>>
>> Forgive my nescience, but why do you need or want an editor-editor-editor?
>> Isn't that like a pointer to a pointer to a pointer?
>
> Thank you for making me google "nescience". I am now that much less
> nescient.
>
> I know the idea of an editor-editor-editor *sounds* crazy, especially
> since I have not actually started the editor-editor yet, but in the
> course of planning and preparing the editor-editor, I have come to
> believe that an editor-editor-editor might be exactly the right amount
> of indirection to trigger a cascade of awesomeness.
>
> Although maybe I am confusaing things by calling it the
> editor-editor-editor. In my mind I have been calling the interpreter for
> the editor definition files the "editor-editor" so a tool to create
> those files is the editor-editor-editor, but really I should drop a
> level of the indirection in my *name* of this thing.
>
> just simply "editor-editor" is a better description of what I have been
> talking about when I say "editor-editor-editor"

I was thinking about the RELOAD format today, and I realized that it 
could be made more efficient, if we produced a "manifest" of sorts, 
describing the valid contents of a RELOAD document. We could use it to 
optimize and validate certain operations.

I think we could use JSON to describe it... Actually, no. It would be 
more efficient if we created a new binary format for this. Maybe... 
Markup Extra Transcription of Additions. Yes, that should work.

And, of course, you can add a new editor-editor-editor editor to edit it.

Oh, but how are we going to mark that up? Hmm... Editor Language DRaft 
Information Transcription CHannel, edited in the 
editor-editor-editor-editor editor of course!

>>> And yes, the idea of using the editor-editor to create the
>>> editor-editor-editor has occured to me, but then an 80-year-old version
>>> of Ralph with a long silver beard and robotic arms appeared in a time
>>> machine and beat me senseless before disappearing in a flash of light.
>>> ...Soooo I decided not to attempt that in this particular timeline.
>>
>> Hmm. Have you tried installing magnets inside the walls? I have nagging
>> relatives, and to avoid them I've installed neodymium magnets all over
>> the house. Because they have metal fillings, their faces are naturally
>> drawn to the walls when they pass by them.
>>
>> Of course, the side effects include rainbow colored crt's, the wall
>> gnomes have become magnetized (or at least that's their excuse for taking
>> all my change!), and I occasionally wake up pointing northwards.
>
> I would try that, but I am concerned about how it might interact with my
> tinfoil hat.

Don't listen to this hippie crap. All you need is a spell of warding 
against extra-planar travellers. Man, doesn't anyone take levels in 
sorcerer these days?

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