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[madscoaducom]

Hi,

really enjoy experimenting with Elm, and I like your learn-by-example / no-install approach (although installing Elm locally was straight forward as well).

While working with the online examples and trying to tweak them I found myself going through the documentation several times to try and find what I was looking for. So I want to see if some of CodeMirrors features can be used to make it even easier to experiment with and learn Elm.

This is a small step which includes two features:

• keyboard shortcut to compile: use Ctrl+Enter in the editor to update the output pane
• auto compile: automatically update the output frame when user pauses typing. This is off by default.

The pull request also updates CodeMirror to version 3.0, as I think it is best to work from the latest release when venturing to other things, like inline documentation (which I wanted to take a stab at).

[evancz]

Very cool! I am going through the changes now.

I guess the only things I have questions about are the cosmetic changes. Like you uncommented some code in the Elm syntax highlighting file, but that stuff is somewhat Haskell specific. It appears that the current line marker is out (just looking at the code). What is the reasoning here? Is this generally personal preference? Just curious :)

The important variable is the timeout on auto-compile and it looks like I can tweak that very easily.

[evancz]

Looks great! Nice work!

[madscoaducom]

Thanks!

With regards to the syntax highlighting. I took the updated haskell highlighter from codemirror 3.0 and tried to merge in your changes, but must have missed the commented-out section. Thanks for spotting that, you can re-disable this part if you want. Same goes for the current line marker - sorry about that

[madscoaducom]

And the change in the editor css is because Codemirror has changed how they pickup the height of the editor element, see http://codemirror.net/doc/upgrade_v3.html

[evancz]

Thanks again! This change kicked me into cleaning up the editor quite a bit. I actually ended up enabling a bunch of different color schemes and did some trickery with cookies to save the editor settings between sessions.

[madscoaducom]

You are welcome, and yes I already noticed your changes - it looks really
good.

I am currently working on a feature to enable inline documentation lookup.
I hope to have something ready to show you and the other Elm'ers later this
week.

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Thanks again! This change kicked me into cleaning up the editor quite a
bit. I actually ended up enabling a bunch of different color schemes and
did some trickery with cookies to save the editor settings between sessions.

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[evancz]

Thanks :D Someone was suggesting exactly this feature just yesterday, so I am doubly excited to see it!