eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (09/10/89)
Has anyone written anything to support writing web/spiderweb code or better, extending texinfo into a web/spiderweb-like system so that it'll be language-indepedent (e.g. it can support Lisp, C, C++ or whatever language you happens to use for your applications) and you can take advantage of the existing Info on-line facility ? I hope that extending texinfo/Info to include spiderweb features shouldn't be too difficult -- the thing to watch out for I guess is to use the existing comment syntax of the language -- i.e. build the web/spiderweb syntax on top of any programming languages but as comments -- i.e. the processor should be smart enough to catch these comments and do the job of code separation/rearrangement, generating stuff to the formatter (i.e. TeX/LaTeX) and produce stuff to feed Info -- so you kill 3 birds with one stone and yet you don't need to disrupt all the existing major-modes for various programming languages -- you may not even need to write any minor-modes since all the smarts are in the comments. Of course, you need to have many *instances* of these processors/generators -- one instance for each programming language. Oh well, just a thought... -- Eric Ho Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University voice = 609-258-2987 email = eho@confidence.princeton.edu 609-258-2819 (messages) eho@bogey.princeton.edu regards. -eric-