-- AbbrevExpand.mesa
-- written by Bill Paxton, August 1981
-- last edit by Bill Paxton, April 5, 1982 1:35 pm
-- This is the interface for abbreviation expansion in Tioga
DIRECTORY
Rope,
TextNode,
RopeReader,
UndoEvent;
AbbrevExpand: CEDAR DEFINITIONS =
BEGIN
RefTextNode: TYPE = TextNode.RefTextNode;
Ref: TYPE = TextNode.Ref;
Offset: TYPE = TextNode.Offset;
MaxLen: Offset = TextNode.MaxLen;
ROPE: TYPE = Rope.ROPE;
Event: TYPE = UndoEvent.Ref;
-- the following take an atom as the name of the dictionary to operate on
-- will automatically try to load file with extension "Abbreviations"
-- only tries this once per session
-- must explicitly load it
Load: PROC
[fileName, dictName: ROPE, start: Offset ← 0, len: Offset ← MaxLen]
RETURNS [count: NAT];
-- reads the file and adds the abbreviations to the specified dictionary
-- returns number of abbreviations
Clear: PROC [dictName: ROPE];
-- removes all entries from the dictionary
IllFormedDef: ERROR;
-- if when try to Expand, definition not of form <key>=<text>, then get error
-- key must be 1 or more alphadigits
-- optionally can have blanks (spaces/tabs/cr's) between key and "="
Expand: PROC
[keyNode: RefTextNode, keyEnd: Offset, dict: ROPE, event: Event ← NIL]
RETURNS [foundIt: BOOLEAN, keyDeterminesDict: BOOLEAN, keyStart, keyLen, resultLen: Offset,
commands: LIST OF REF ANY];
-- looks in dictionary for entry with matching key
-- match ignores capitalization of keys
-- unless key is of form <dictName>.<keyName>
-- in which case it only looks in the specified dictionary
-- and returns with keyDeterminesDict=TRUE
-- if finds a matching entry, then
-- replace key text by text from entry
-- if key in entry is followed by blanks before "=",
-- then skip one blank in text after the "="
-- if key text was all upper case, force new text uppercase also
-- if key text not all upper but had initial cap,
-- make new text have an initial cap
-- otherwise, don't change capitalization of new text
-- if first character of key had looks, add those looks to new text
-- if entry node has a nonnull type name, set key node type name
-- if entry node has children, insert copies of them as children of key node
-- return start and len of new text
-- can optionally have command list enclosed in ( )'s between key name and '=
-- ***** Initialization
Start: PROC; -- for initialization only
END.