<div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I've got a question that pertains to any of these identify-region, parse, make-expandable approaches.</div><div><br></div><div>The main use I'd like to use the trick for (esp. Chris's Emacs version) is to deal with large intermediate compiler ASTs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if a compiler produces a long stream of output to stdout, with certain Show-produced ASTs embedded in it, what's the most expedient way to identify those regions that can be collapsed in the buffer and interactively expanded?</div>
<div><ul><li>The user could define heuristics for identifying those regions in a particular stream of output</li><li>If the source is available, the compiler could be tweaked to obey a protocol, putting delimiters around collapsable output (possibly non-printing control sequences??)</li>
</ul><div>Or is there another hack I'm not thinking of? What's easiest?</div></div><div><br></div><div> -Ryan</div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apfelmus@quantentunnel.de">apfelmus@quantentunnel.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Christopher Done wrote:<br>
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Maybe an Emacs script to expand the nodes nicely:<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofEZQ7XoEA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?<u></u>v=6ofEZQ7XoEA</a> I don't find mere pretty<br>
printing that useful compared to the “expanding” paradigm I'm used to in<br>
Chrome and Firebug.<br>
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Great demo video. My recent GSoC project suggestions aims to make that available to non-Emacsers, via the web browser.<br>
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<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/1609" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/<u></u>trac/summer-of-code/ticket/<u></u>1609</a><br>
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Best regards,<br>
Heinrich Apfelmus<br>
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