[Doc-SIG] Documentation systems for other languages

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:39:12 -0500 (EST)


Guido van Rossum writes:
 > No, it's not been done yet.  It might be tricky, given that the Tk
 > text widget we're using doesn't support such a concept -- we'd have to
 > delete the folded text from the buffer and trap keystrokes.

  Which of course complicates the colorizing code; I seem to recall
that it works directly with the text widget's buffer rather than an
internal representation.
  Ahh, the breakage!  ;)


  -Fred

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