IDEs and the ppx
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enhancement
syntax extension
- Dominant language
- OCaml
- Stars
- 179
- Forks
- 63
- Avg merge
- 5h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 22
Description
Editing html with the ppx is ... a bit annoying.
- You don't get any fancy html handling/coloring. It would be nice to have something for that.
- Emacs: I know it's possible to do some fancy submodes but I don't know how to do it (and how easy it would be to distribute). cc @gsg @Chris00 ?
- Vim : I'm not even sure who to call. @rgrinberg ?
- Others : ???
- Indentation by ocp-indent is terrible. @AltGr, can we do something about it ?
(See here for what the syntax looks like)
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the PPX syntax described in the linked TyXML manual, then investigate how Emacs, Vim, and ocp-indent currently handle that syntax. Done would require a concrete approach for HTML-aware editing or coloring and substantially better indentation, but the issue does not define a specific editor, file, or test.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- emacs, ocaml, vim
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100