PhD @UMichCSE • building https://xitter.cf/t.co/sEtPaejQKZ https://xitter.cf/t.co/GvG3Va4saO

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined November 2015
#tylr is live! tylr.fun (not mobile friendly yet!) how to play 🧵
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what if the outline view was a fully bidirectional alternate editor?
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all will become fidgetable
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We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details
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given that everyone is doing token-by-token and/or line-by-line partial completion acceptance now, i'm surprised i haven't seen any that just recapitulate selection mechanics (i.e. shift-left/right for token, shift-up/down for line). we have incremental acceptance at home!
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I am once more seeking participants for a user study. We'll be evaluating a prototype code editor that completes your text with placeholders for missing tokens expected by the language. Here are a couple vids motivating the editor+study. Details in thread. RTs appreciated! 🙏
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Your participation will involve using the editor to perform editing tasks in an OCaml-like lang. We're esp interested in folks with prior experience using expression-oriented langs like OCaml, Haskell, Scala, etc. You'll receive a $25 Amazon gift card for 60 minutes of your time.
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new tylr featuring inline obligations. press tab to jump to the next obligation, either a hole or a token-completion, or to accept the current completion.
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...meaning you can maximally parse any segment of code knowing only its token bounds. the problem with OP parsing traditionally is that it has really limited grammar expressivity, you can't reuse the same token in different ways (eg - for negation and subtraction).
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for example, the structures shown in each selection here are determined simply by parsing the selected range of (molded) tokens, without inspecting any context beyond the immediate token neighbors
what's in a selection?
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Impressive. Some fresh ideas for structure editing.
new tylr featuring inline obligations. press tab to jump to the next obligation, either a hole or a token-completion, or to accept the current completion.
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Seems like you've had a burst of new ideas. Are you planning a new demo sometime?
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Impressive. Some fresh ideas for structure editing.
new tylr featuring inline obligations. press tab to jump to the next obligation, either a hole or a token-completion, or to accept the current completion.
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what's in a selection?
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new tylr feels so good. very clicky much structure
new tylr featuring inline obligations. press tab to jump to the next obligation, either a hole or a token-completion, or to accept the current completion.
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new tylr feels amazing. what if structure editing were error correction with holes all along?
new tylr featuring inline obligations. press tab to jump to the next obligation, either a hole or a token-completion, or to accept the current completion.
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I'm working around that limitation by tagging tokens with their grammar contexts, what I'm calling molds. once molded, tokens can be OP parsed, and this helps especially with organizing the edit state into various regions of interest while maintaining structure.
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the remaining problem is then how to assign these molds and this is the subject of my current wip paper
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