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

[Mike Caron]

On 10/14/2010 22:13, James Paige wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:07:03PM -0400, Mike Caron wrote:
>> 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!
>
> I... can't... telllll if you are teasing me or not!...

I'm teasing both of us :D

>>>>> 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?
>
> I'm still single-classing Barbarian, sorry.

Fair enough. You need it to wrangle with all those Pythons.

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> James
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