anyone recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX

#1 06-08-2007, 07:33 PM

Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
for most things, however,
I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
Any recommendations?

#2 06-12-2007, 05:01 PM

sail0r@creepjoint.net writes:

> Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
> I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
> for most things, however,
> I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
> highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
> Any recommendations?

Emacs with sml-mode.

Matthias

#3 06-12-2007, 05:01 PM

> Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
> I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
> for most things, however,
> I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
> highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
> Any recommendations?

Well, Emacs of course,

Stefan "Maintainer of the sml-mode package"

#4 06-12-2007, 05:02 PM

sail0r@creepjoint.net wrote:
> Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
> I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
> for most things, however,
> I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
> highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
> Any recommendations?

I personally use [X]Emacs with sml-mode (and a couple of additional
modes (esml-mlb-mode and def-use-mode) that I wrote for working with
MLton (http://mlton.org/Emacs)) to edit SML code. While sml-mode
mostly works, I think that it has some rough edges.

-Vesa Karvonen

#5 06-12-2007, 05:02 PM

sail0r@creepjoint.net writes:

> Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
> I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
> for most things, however,
> I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
> highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
> Any recommendations?

Emacs has an SML mode that can do indenting and syntac colouring.

Torben

#6 06-12-2007, 05:02 PM

sail0r@creepjoint.net wrote:
> Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
> I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
> for most things, however,
> I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
> highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
> Any recommendations?
>

There's a sml vim mode available here:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs...stall-vim.html

I haven't used it in a quite a while, but if I recall correctly, it does
both syntax coloring and indentation.

--Jeff

#7 06-12-2007, 05:03 PM

I'm working on one, to be called Ped. Not quite ready yet. In the
nonce, consider emacs and look around for the sml/nj plugins that you
desire.

#8 06-12-2007, 05:04 PM

sail0r@creepjoint.net wrote:
> Anyone here recommend a good editor for sml coding for MacOSX?
> I have mainly been just using vi in a Terminal window which is fine
> for most things, however,
> I think it would be nice to have something which did syntax
> highlighting/coloring and auto indent, for example.
> Any recommendations?

I use Aquamacs (with the SML mode available from www.smlnj.org), but
that's because I use emacs everywhere else. Emacs is an acquired taste.

-thant

#9 06-13-2007, 08:43 PM

Just to be different, let me recommend BBEdit, an excellent editor with no
support for the Mayan calendar. For syntax colouring, you can download a
Standard ML language module from
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/general.html>

Larry Paulson

#10 06-20-2007, 05:57 PM

Lawrence Paulson wrote:
> Just to be different, let me recommend BBEdit, an excellent editor with no
> support for the Mayan calendar. For syntax colouring, you can download a
> Standard ML language module from
> <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/general.html>
That sounds good!
I may just go that way...
Does BBedit auto-indent code as well?
Not exactly a deal breaker but I do like that feature of many editors.

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