The Eno notation language

Re:The Eno notation language by teddyh on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:56AM (#17773294)

  # cities
  Den Haag: 52.069961, 4.302315
  Málaga: 36.721447, -4.421291

Here, “cities” looks like a comment, but it is part of the syntax, otherwise this example code would not work:

  document.section('cities').lat_lng('Málaga')

The actual comment syntax is “>”:

  > comment

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Re:The Eno notation language by simonrepp on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:36AM (#17774060)

Yes exactly - Hashes denote 'sections' in eno!

In the language design phase this was heavily inspired by markdown, because of the already widely familiar concept of 'headings' - I collected feedback from users that (although they showed considerable anxiety given the prospect that they were to use text files to edit their content in the future instead of a fancy web interface) they found working with markdown (quote) "super easy", so markdown was therefore an influential factor for some aspects of the language design. :)

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Re:The Eno notation language by jacobevelyn on Thursday August 16, 2018 @09:06AM (#17774257)

This is a really cool project! I don't need quite the power of eno (yet!) in my CLI journaling app[1], but I similarly value the power of users being able to just easily read and write their own data. (I went with Markdown for the data store.)

[1]: https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends

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Re:The Eno notation language by simonrepp on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:44AM (#17787534)

Thanks for the encouragement!

I like the philosophy of friends! (even though I too don't need quite the power of it (yet). ;))

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Re:The Eno notation language by fnordsensei on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:29AM (#17774014)

It looks like the H1 tag in markdown, where the number of #'s indicate title level.

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Re:The Eno notation language by simonrepp on Thursday August 16, 2018 @08:38AM (#17774065)

Spot on, that's how it works!

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