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One neat thing about working with Mathematica in Eclipse is that successive clicking expands your selection 'outwards' up the syntax tree. It's an quite astound
by taliesinb 15y ago
One neat thing about working with Mathematica in Eclipse is that successive clicking expands your selection 'outwards' up the syntax tree. It's an quite astoundingly useful feature for refactoring.
I'm sure some LISP editors have this too, but in a m-expression language like Mathematica it seems like magic.
- spitfire 15y agoAre you talking wolfram workbench or eclipse? (I don't have workbench). If eclipse has mms support I'll be trying that out tonight.
- taliesinb 15y agoAh, my bad. You can install it as an Eclipse plugin, but that seems to require access to an internal server. So guess you're stuck with the Workbench, our branded version of Eclipse, which requires "premier service". Sorry!
- spitfire 15y agoYeah. I don't have premier service. (When it says "call for quote" I leave) I'm guessing you work for wolfram? Is there a demo available somewhere?
- gsg 15y agoWhen I was first learning elisp, one of the utilities I wrote was a flood-selection feature that sounds very similar to what you describe. Interestingly, it turned out to be quite useful in C code despite only being aware of string and paren (and brace and bracket) boundaries.