Generating Web-based Semantically Aware Source Code Editors

Master thesis (2013)

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Contributors

E. Visser (mentor)
Department
SERG (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2013 Vogelij, R.G.
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Published Date

10-01-2013

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

SERG

Abstract

This thesis describes spoofax2ace, the tool to generate source code editors which can run in the browser. The features which are common in state of the art desktop-computer based source code editors are investigated after which the difficulties in getting these features running on the Web are discussed. We present, implement, and compare multiple approaches in constructing a fully semantically aware source code editor which runs in the browser. The most useful aspects in these approaches arecombined in the proposition of our “editor-generator” which produces browser-based source code editors with as sole input a language declaration in the form of a Spoofaxproject.