A few thoughts on thin literary programming.

from /villagepump/thin-literary-programming-thought-a-bit.

• Thin Literary Programming を少し考えてた

• I’m writing a program in VSCode right now,

• Scrapbox does indeed have some nice features that are not in the current programming environment.

  • Like a line link.

• But the program environment has a lot of features in the browser that are not available in the Scrapbox environment.

  • type check
  • supplementation
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Jump to definition
  • symbol jump
    • Jump to symbols in the same file
    • In markdown, you can use # headings and so on.
  • Automatic reload of development server
  • Automated Testing
  • Version Control with Git
  • Automatic deployment after push to repository
  • The only decent implementations are formatter andLSPなし補完くらいだろうなあ

• Therefore, it is more straightforward to bring Scrapbox functionality to the VSCode side than to move the development environment to the Scrapbox side.

  • +1

• That’s the whole point.

  • As an extension of the editor called VSCode Wiki running on local file system.

• So, that’s why

  • Wiki that runs on the local file system as an extension to the editor called Emacs
  • Isn’t it a revival of howm that is which became
  • In Vim, made it.

• What I wrote here is a feeling I may or may not make during Golden Week.

  • Most programming languages have the ability for multi-line comments.
  • so that you can write a Scrapbox-like link there.
  • [I want to use Scrapbox offline.
  • Edit offline without internet and git push when you are online

• How to make VSCode extensions, I don’t know anything about it.

  • I’ll look into the possibility that “there’s already a howm for VSCode.”
    • VS Code used by writers - Extensions｜Tadanori Kurashita｜note
      • I created an extension for Visual Studio Code called ActionLock | WriteIfElse

        • ActionLock in Howm would have been useful.

        • Only some of the features are there.
      • https://github.com/satokaz/vscode-memo-life-for-you
        • Open “Today’s date and time page” with shortcut keys like howm
  • Your First Extension | Visual Studio Code Extension API
  • vscode-wikiなるものはある

• A docstring becomes a wiki kind of thing.

  • In emacs, it looks like a minor mode, so it could be implemented by combining existing modes (I’m not sure).
  • Ongoing Documentation の概念もヒントになるかも

• I think it’s a good idea to extend VSCode as something we can do now,Thin Literary Programming の理想形がどんな形なのかは気になる

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from [/villagepump/first half of Golden Week Chronicles 2022](https://scrapbox.io/villagepump/first half of Golden Week Chronicles 2022). - A few thoughts on thin literary programming. の件、とりあえずHello world的拡張を作って「VSCodeの拡張を作ったことがある」実績解除をやろうと思った - Hello world is ready. - Can reload with Cmd+R. Feels like developing a web app.

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from [/villagepump/first half of Golden Week Chronicles 2022](https://scrapbox.io/villagepump/first half of Golden Week Chronicles 2022).

ActionLock

• Howm.
• reading comprehension
  • Once every 100 seconds, it updates text decorations, such as underlining, and determines if the cursor is in the RANGE at that time.
    • /villagepump/ActionLock#626e5273aff09e00009a8e83
  • The range is defined by a regular expression.
    • /villagepump/ActionLock#626e5294aff09e00009a8f1c
  • Pressing Enter when in range executes the command.
    • /villagepump/ActionLock#626e52c2aff09e00009a9065
• I wish I could write a story like “I wish I could write a story like “I wish I could write a story like “I wish I could write a story like “I wish I could write a story like “I wish I could write a story like - Thin Literary Programming.
• VSCode can’t do it now, so we’ll have to do it in Scrapbox.
• I tried it and got a page with only the source code posted…
  • This is only about 3 files now, but if there are more, would it be better to have separate pages for each source file…
• Would it be easy enough to jump to the corresponding page in Scrapbox if you enter on a string like [/foo/bar]?
• What should happen when you Enter on [foo]?
  • Scrapbox has an implicit jump target at the beginning of the page.
  • Clicking on the foo link results in a jump to the jump target at the beginning of the foo page
  • Each source code in VSCode has a file name, but not a title for humans in the Scrapbox sense.
    • Need a notation to create jump targets?
      • Create a jump target at an arbitrary position in the page, like come-from link.
    • For example, if you write [< determine if the cursor is in the range] at 626e5273aff09e00009a8e85 in the source code, it will jump to that position when you enter with [determine if the cursor is in the range]. And so on.
    • I wonder if this can be done.
      • https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#WorkspaceSymbolProvider%3CT%3E
    • Even if you can’t jump directly, you can do a “symbol search on that string” and get there in two hops.
      • That should work with file names, etc. in the bracket.

yahow

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