The Design and Implementation of the Syntax-Directed Editor Generator(SEG)

SEG is a syntax-directed editor generator consisting of three parts:Meta,a meta language which describes BNF-like syntax;a parser,which parses the syntax descriptions written in Meta and generates their driver tables;a syntax-directed editor,which performs editing operations using a table.Similar to its ancestors(e.g.CPS,Gandalf),SEG is characterized by the following features:i)it is for a variety of languages so that the editor of a specific language can be easily produced;ii)multifile can be edited in mul…