Isabelle/jEdit as IDE for Domain-specific Formal Languages and Informal Text Documents

Makarius Wenzel

Isabelle/jEdit is the main application of the Prover IDE (PIDE) framework and the default user-interface of Isabelle, but it is not limited to theorem proving. This paper explores possibilities to use it as a general IDE for formal languages that are defined in user-space, and embedded into informal text documents. It covers overall document structure with auxiliary files and document antiquotations, formal text delimiters and markers for interpretation (via control symbols). The ultimate question behind this: How far can we stretch a plain text editor like jEdit in order to support semantic text processing, with support by the underlying PIDE framework?

In Paolo Masci, Rosemary Monahan and Virgile Prevosto: Proceedings 4th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE 2018), Oxford, England, 14 July 2018, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 284, pp. 71–84.
Published: 27th November 2018.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.284.6 bibtex PDF
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