[texworks] Analyzing the log

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> On 2 June 2009 Alain Delmotte wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> In french.comp.text.tex there was a message about texloganalyser  
>> (Perl
>> script), version 0.6
>>    Copyright 2006-2009 Thomas van Oudenhove
>>
>> But this is Perl!!! Still another dimension for me.
>>
>> I don't exactly know what is done, but it could be interesting to be
>> included(?) in TeXworks.
>>
>> Another way to help using the log, would be log highlighting of the  
>> log
>> information about "warnings", "overfull" and "underful".
>> Would it be very difficult to implement?
>
> Hmm, in principle it's a good idea to extend a particular program by
> external code instead of providing all the functionality in C/C++.
> You can provide extensions and fix bugs without the need to re-compile
> the binary.  This saves a lot of time, especially because TeXworks is
> supposed to work on many different platforms.
>
> However, instead of calling arbitrary external programs, I think it's
> much better to integrate a Lua engine into TeXworks.  Then almost
> everything can be done without re-compiling the binaries.
>
> The best example of such an approach is Emacs.  Most of its
> functionality comes from files written in Lisp.  It's really
> worthwhile to study Emacs.
>
> There is certainly no benefit to hard-code a log-analyzer in the
> binary.  It can better be done by external code.  But calling a Perl
> script would only solve *one* problem.  A built-in Lua engine could
> make TeXworks as extensible as Emacs.
>
> Besides all the other advantages Lua offers, the reason I prefer Lua
> is that it's extremely powerful but its clear concepts make it easy to
> learn.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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Howdy,

Hmmm... and I thought that TeXWorks was supposed to be a simple to  
learn and use UTF-8 compliant TeX aware editor/front end. I certainly  
don't think of it as a competitor to Emacs. If you want emacs use  
emacs; it's very powerful, especially with AUCTeX and other  
extensions, but I don't want to spend the next few years of my life  
learning it and its multi-key commands.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)