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The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual

The Synthesizer Generator is a system for automating the implementation of language-based editing environments. The editor designer prepares a specification that includes rules defining a language's context-free abstract syn­ tax, context-sensitive relationships, display format, and concrete in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reps, Thomas W., Teitelbaum, Tim (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1989, 1989
Edition:3rd ed. 1989
Series:Monographs in Computer Science
Subjects:
Compilers (computer Programs)
Compilers And Interpreters
Software Engineering
Programming Techniques
Computer Programming
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Specifying an Editor
  • 2.1 Lexical Matters
  • 2.2 Phyla, Operators, and Terms
  • 2.3 Attribute Declarations and Attribute Equations
  • 2.4 Function Declarations
  • 2.5 Expressions
  • 2.6 View and Unparsing Declarations
  • 2.7 Concrete Input Syntax
  • 2.8 Transformation Declarations
  • 2.9 Support for Modular Specifications
  • 2.10 Option Declarations
  • 2.11 Quantified Declarations
  • 3 Using an Editor
  • 3.1 Getting Into and Out of an Editor
  • 3.2 Executing Commands and Transformations
  • 3.3 Buffers, Selections, and Files
  • 3.4 Creating, Deleting, and Resizing Windows and Panes
  • 3.5 Entering and Editing an Object
  • 3.6 Changing the Structural Selection by Traversal of the Edited Term
  • 3.7 Changing the Character Selection by Traversal of the Text Buffer
  • 3.8 Moving the Object With Respect to the Window
  • 3.9 Moving the Locator on the Screen
  • 3.10 Changing the Selection with the Locator
  • 3.11 Structural Editing
  • 3.12 Textual Editing
  • 3.13 Access to Computed Attributes
  • 3.14 Searching
  • 3.15 Alternating Unparsing Schemes
  • 4 The SSL Debugger
  • 5 Interface to C
  • 5.1 Foreign and Exported Functions
  • 5.2 Base-Type and Primitive-Phylum Definitions
  • 5.3 External Stores and External Computers
  • 5.4 Defining Additional Commands
  • 5.4.1 Defining commands that have no parameters
  • 5.4.2 Defining commands that have parameters
  • Appendix A A Sample Specification
  • Appendix B Invoking the Synthesizer Generator
  • Appendix C List of Editor Commands
  • Appendix D Keyboards, Displays, Window Systems, and Mice
  • D.1 Keyboards
  • D.2 Displays and Window Systems
  • D.3 Mice
  • Appendix E Demonstration Editors
  • E.1 Simple Tutorial Editors
  • E.2 Editors for Programming Languages
  • E.3 Document Editor
  • E.4 Graphics Editor
  • E.5 Pedagogical Editors
  • E.6 Logic and Program-Verification Editors
  • Appendix F Syntax of SSL.

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