Re: push parser

[Rik]

On 01/28/2012 07:28 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:28:30 -0500
> From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
> Subject: using a push parser to connect Octave to a GUI
>
> Without a terminal widget, and using Octave this way, we
> would not be able to use GNU readline.  OTOH, it might not be that
> difficult to emulate enough readline keybindings to satisfy most GUI
> users of Octave.
OH NO!  Really?  I love Readline editing and while some basic editing is
probably reproducible for the average user I can't imagine my setup would
be supported.  I use Vi so I don't have the default Emacs key bindings and,
worse, I use a Dvorak keyboard layout so my ~/.inputrc is pretty tricked out.

It seems like an interesting approach, but also a lot of work -- recode
pull to push parser, make it re-entrant, code Readline equivalent.  All of
this would then weaken the CLI, which I prefer, in order to facilitate a
GUI for an operating system that I don't use.

It could still be worthwhile for Octave as a project, rather than me
personally, if a GUI is the thing standing between our current user base
and widescale adoption.

My 2 cents,
Rik