I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.

http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html

On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 04:06:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.
>
> http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html

Maybe add a link to the existing documentation for how to use Ddoc so newbies don't have to search for it?

On 1/6/2015 8:42 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
> Maybe add a link to the existing documentation for how to use Ddoc so newbies
> don't have to search for it?

good idea

On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:
> I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on
> any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.
>
> http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html

Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was thinking of Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 1/6/2015 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on
>> any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.
>>
>> http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html
>
> Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was thinking of
> Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".
>

Eh, mac as short for macro is at least as old as the PDP-11 :-)

On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:42:39 +0100
Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:
> > I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.
> >
> > http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html
> 
> Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was thinking of Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".

so "emacs" is... i don't event know. alot of "e" apple macs? ;-)

On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 09:59:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/6/2015 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-01-07 05:06, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I've wanted to do this for a while. The Ddoc macro system should work on
>>> any piece of text you'd like to add macro support to.
>>>
>>> http://digitalmars.com/sargon/textmac.html
>>
>> Hmm, I wonder how good name "textmac" is. When I read "mac" I was thinking of
>> Apple Mac, not "mac" short for "macro".
>>
>
> Eh, mac as short for macro is at least as old as the PDP-11 :-)

I guess those where the times when unmount has been abbreviated to umount. Typing must have been really hard.

On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 at 11:44:18 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> so "emacs" is... i don't event know. alot of "e" apple macs? ;-)

imacs.

On 1/7/2015 3:46 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> I guess those where the times when unmount has been abbreviated to umount.
> Typing must have been really hard.

It had to do with file extensions for macro assembler being .MAC, and people just wound up calling them "mac" files.

Just like people call assembler files "asm" files today.

"umount" likely is related to max 6 character filenames in older systems.