Inspired by re reading Naur s Programming as Theory Building

Question

Inspired by re reading Naur s Programming as Theory Building I decided to make myself a text editor to solve all my problems <https eli li 2023 02 18 moon maker|tl dr I wrote a blog post and some bash instead> joy

Eli Mellen · Answer

My first attempt at this was more elaborate rather than bash and saving to the file system I was trying to do something with sqlite and having a database backing each file of a project The idea was that I could assign any row + column number as an ID and then generate a connected moon from that This was a cool idea but so fragile as to be untenable Plain text doesn t offer a great way to reference specific points in a file if that file is changing

Benji York · Answer

Cool

Eli Mellen · Answer

Thanks Also welcome wave

Benji York · Answer

While reading I first thought you were going to go full FUSE and build an alternate file system that criss crosses the real files in some strange way

Benji York · Answer

That might actually be cool

Eli Mellen · Answer

In my notes I just have a big 9p to indicate if Plan9 s 9p could do what I want because I try to solve many problems with stuff from plan9 My track record so far is 0

Benji York · Answer

heh

Jimmy Miller · Answer

So glad to see more people exploring the space between files and no files < Benji York> Love the idea of doing a virtual filesystem I definitely need to play with that

Eli Mellen · Answer

Something I thought about trying to do was hack some sort of editor into fossil scm and use SQLite to store everything but c

Jack Rusher · Answer

FYI I do many things with synthetic filesystems In an effort to make it easier for others to experiment with that sort of thing I wrote up this clojure stub as an example convenient starting point <https gist github com jackrusher e5fef18113ae721486c47acada19089c>