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On 6/21/2011 1:03 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:59:11 -0700, Roedy Green
> <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>  wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:44:04 -0400, Eric Sosman
>> <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>  wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
>> someone who said :
>>
>>>   Any bets on when we'll see a font-sensitive programming language?
>>
>> Regexes would be a heck of a lot simpler if the expressions were font
>> or colour sensitive. You would use one colour for data and one for
>> commands.  Instead of \n you would type that see echoed some sort of
>> single-width newline glyph.
>
>       Huh?  Which is the data, and which is the commands?  It is all
> characters to be parsed.
>

presumably, the editor would insert some sort of markup or annotations, 
and the compiler would parse these.

the issue though would be to avoid being overly slowed down by the types 
of user-interface design issues which plague traditional HTML WYSIWYG 
editors...

hmm... source code as HTML, and using Mozilla/SeaMonkey Composer as the 
text editor...

imagine the fun...