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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1989, 1989
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Edition: | 3rd ed. 1989 |
Series: | Monographs in Computer Science
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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.