LEXX (text editor)
LEXX is a
REXX
— hence the 'XX' in 'LEXX').
LEXX uses dynamically-loaded parsers which assign classes of elements (tokens formed from character strings) to fonts and colors.[4] It allows indentation to be used to format and show the structure of the file being edited, and other formatting options allow (for example) the hiding of selected classes of text, such as tags. A collection of screenshots is available.[5]
LPEX ('Live Parsing Editor"
References
- IBM VisualAgerange of products, running on VM/CMS, OS/2, OS/400, AIX, Windows, and Java. Mike remains a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.
- ^ http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ VM Download Packages
- ^ Cowlishaw, M. F. (1987), "LEXX – A programmable structured editor", IBM Journal of Research and Development (PDF), vol. 31
- ^ Foulger, Davis, Agent Software Prototypes and Implementations, archived from the original on 2009-01-07, retrieved 2008-10-08
- ^ | LEXX screenshots
- ^ Clark, Douglas (February 16, 2003), LPEX - The 'Other' Programmer's Editor, OS/2 eZine, retrieved 2008-10-08,
LPEX gets its initials from the name "live parsing editor." It parses the lines you type, as your type them, and displays syntax errors immediately; you don't have to run the source code through the compiler or interpreter to catch simple syntax errors.
- ^ Woehr, Jack (March 1, 1996), A Conversation with Michael Cowlishaw, Dr. Dobb's, retrieved 2008-10-08,
MFC: Around 1985, the Oxford University Press needed an editor that could handle highly structured data: the content of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is about a 20-volume, 1000-page-per-volume dictionary. So I wrote an editor for them called "LEXX" which ran on IBM mainframes. It's now mostly used for program editing, because of its ability to parse data and color keywords, and other features.
- ^ LPEX for Eclipse summary
External links
- Casey, John (July 12, 2006), Creating user profiles for the LPEX editor in WebSphere Developer for zSeries v6.0, IBM, retrieved 2008-10-08
- Casey, John (June 8, 2006), Extending the LPEX Editor in WebSphere Developer for zSeries v6.0, IBM, retrieved 2008-10-08
- G. F. Coulouris; I. Durham; J. R. Hutchinson; H. H. Patel; T. Reeves; D. G. Winderbank (October 27, 2006), "The design and implementation of an interactive document editor", Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 6, Wiley Interscience, archived from the original on January 5, 2013
- Introducing the LPEX Editor, IBM, 1998, archived from the original on 2003-05-14, retrieved 2008-10-08