[Cuis-dev] Tonel Format source code browsing

[Juan Vuletich]

On 4/30/2022 4:26 PM, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As some may know, I have been working up to a port of the 
> Bee/Powerlang code into Cuis with the intent of generating direct to 
> native runtime code for arm64/riscv64.
>
> Waaaay to early to be discussing that, but to be successful I needed a 
> tool to be able to browse Tonel source files.
>
> Early days here as well, but for Tonel class-at-a-time format files, I 
> have enough working to share:
>
>   https://github.com/KenDickey/Cuis-Smalltalk-Tonel-Browser
>
> Just
>   Feature require: 'ExchangeFormat-Tonel-Lite'.
>
> Then open a File List on such a file.
>
> The #code button should be able to create a Cuis format chunk file 
> which the Code File Browser can open.  #code on regular chunk files 
> should work as usual.

Nice.

> One major gripe with Tonel is that they use the same ".st" suffix as 
> the preexisting chunk files.  Different things should look different!

When I did packages for Cuis, I faced the same dilemma. GitHub likes 
.st, and knows how to colorize Smalltalk. But Packages are not exactly 
regular chunk files. What I did is to use .pck.st. Still .st for who 
don't know better, but different for those who know. I suggest .tonel.st

> Still very much a work in progress, but this should be useful to 
> people porting from the Tonel format.  Can be safely ignored if not.
>
> Good on ya,
> -KenD

Thanks,

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