[Oberon] Easier typing of capital letter keywords in Oberon

[Alexey Veselovsky]

Plugin for Sublime Text for Oberon language has the similar behavior.

Thanks,
Alexey.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Chris Burrows <chris at cfbsoftware.com>
wrote:

> The Oberon syntax-aware editor in our Astrobe IDE has an
> 'Auto-capitalisation' feature. This is the description of how it works from
> the Astrobe Help file:
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> The Oberon language requires that reserved words (BEGIN, WHILE etc.) and
> predeclared identifiers (INTEGER, TRUE etc.) consist exclusively of capital
> letters. When editing source files, Astrobe automatically detects these
> words and capitalises them, if necessary, as you are typing. The
> auto-capitalisation feature can turned on or off from the Tools >
> Preferences menu.
>
> Astrobe capitalises a word when all of the following conditions apply:
>
> • The RETURN key is pressed or one of the following characters is typed:
>
>      space
> (    left-parenthesis
> )    right-parenthesis
> ;    semi-colon
> |    vertical bar
> ,    comma
> *    asterisk
>
> • The word is a reserved word, predeclared identifier or a qualified
> SYSTEM identifier
> • The word consists entirely of lowercase letters
> • The word is not contained in a comment or string
>
> NOTE: If you need to use a reserved word or predeclared identifier in
> lowercase, then you can reverse the effect of auto-capitalisation by
> selecting Edit > Lower Case (Ctrl-L) when the cursor is positioned at the
> end of the word.  As well as converting the word to lowercase it suppresses
> auto-capitalisation for the next keystroke to prevent it from being
> immediately converted back to capitals again.
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> The origianl versions of Astrobe that target ARM Cortex-M3/M4 systems are
> commercial software. However, we have released a free full-featured version
> of Astrobe that can be used to edit, compile and upload Project Oberon 2013
> RISC5 FPGA applications for no charge. For more details see:
>
>   http://www.astrobe.com/RISC5
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.astrobe.com
>
>
>
>
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Eric
> Scharff
> Sent: Saturday, 23 January 2016 4:52 AM
> To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Oberon] Easier typing of capital letter keywords in Oberon
>
> So, in my tinkering with both Native Oberon and Project Oberon 2013, I
> have to say I really like Oberon (the language), but as a newbie, the
> environment is tricky.
>
> The most obvious thing for me is that Oberon doesn't seem to recognize my
> caps lock key.  I know it sounds trivial, but it's leading to a huge
> ergonomic issue for me.
>
> typing PROCEDURE or INTEGER (and the other keywords) while holding down
> the shift key is extremely uncomfortable. Typing
> <caps-lock>integer<caps-lock) would be an improvement (all lower case
> typing), but still has extra keystrokes.
>
> Really, I'd like to type all of the capitalized keywords in lower case,
> and then apply a filter to my document to automatically capitalize, and run
> such a trigger when I Edit.Store a file.  Does such a thing exist?
>
> Do other folks run into this problem? What are recommended solutions?
>
>
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