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digitalmars.D.announce - Sargon library gets Ddoc macro processor

reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on any 
piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.

http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html
Jan 06 2015
next sibling parent reply "Zach the Mystic" <reachzach gggmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 04:06:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system 
 should work on any piece of text you'd like to add macro 
 support to.

 http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html


Maybe add a link to the existing documentation for how to use 
Ddoc so newbies don't have to search for it?
Jan 06 2015
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 1/6/2015 8:42 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote:

 Maybe add a link to the existing documentation for how to use Ddoc so newbies
 don't have to search for it?


good idea
Jan 06 2015
prev sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on
 any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.

 http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html


Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was 
thinking of Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 06 2015
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 1/6/2015 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on
 any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.

 http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html


 Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was thinking of
 Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".


Eh, mac as short for macro is at least as old as the PDP-11 :-)
Jan 07 2015
parent reply "Tobias Pankrath" <tobias pankrath.net> writes:
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 09:59:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 1/6/2015 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system 
 should work on
 any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.

 http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html


 Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I 
 was thinking of
 Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".


 Eh, mac as short for macro is at least as old as the PDP-11 :-)


I guess those where the times when unmount has been abbreviated 
to umount. Typing must have been really hard.
Jan 07 2015
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 1/7/2015 3:46 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:

 I guess those where the times when unmount has been abbreviated to umount.
 Typing must have been really hard.


It had to do with file extensions for macro assembler being .MAC, and people 
just wound up calling them "mac" files.

Just like people call assembler files "asm" files today.

"umount" likely is related to max 6 character filenames in older systems.
Jan 07 2015
prev sibling parent reply ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> writes:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:42:39 +0100
Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> wrote:


 On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on
 any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.

 http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html


=20
 Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was=20
 thinking of Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".


so "emacs" is... i don't event know. alot of "e" apple macs? ;-)
Jan 07 2015
parent "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= writes:
On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 11:44:18 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 so "emacs" is... i don't event know. alot of "e" apple macs? ;-)


imacs.
Jan 07 2015