US 11,080,024 B2Granted

In-line code adornments

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsAnson Michael Horton, David Ellis Pugh

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Abstract

Embodiments relate to incorporating supplemental information into a code editor's editing view that may make the code more understandable to those not familiar or comfortable with the code. The editor receives adornments that may be translations or semantic equivalents of constructs already in the code. The editor adds the adornments to an editing view for editing the source code. The adornments are inserted into lines of the source code displayed in the editing view and have some of the appearance of the source code in the editing view. The adornments are passive with respect to the source code; they are not necessarily compiled or saved. The adornments may be tokens provided by a compiler and/or an integrated development environment. The editor may apply heuristics or rules to determine which adornments are to be used and where they will be inserted.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method performed by a computer comprising a display, processing hardware, and storage hardware storing instructions configured to cause the computer to perform the method, the method comprising:

executing a code editor comprising editing logic and an editing region displayed on the display, wherein the editing logic is interactively invokable via the editing region to enable text editing in the editing region;
opening, by the code editor, a source code file and displaying source code from the source code file in the editing region, wherein the source code comprises tokens and comments in a first human language, and wherein the code editor stores the source code in a buffer and updates the buffer in response to edits of the source code in the editing region;
performing background compilation or interpretation of the source code to obtain associations between comments in the source code displayed in the editing region and comments identified by the background compilation or interpretation of the source code, and generating translated comments for the comments identified by the background compilation or interpretation of the source code, wherein the translated comments are in a second human language, and wherein the translated comments in the second human language are not saved to the source code file;
and
based on the associations, replacing, in the editing region, the comments in the first human language in the source code with the translated comments in the second human language.

2 more elements

A computer-readable storage device storing a code editor configured to be executed by a computing device, the code editor configured to perform a process, the process comprising:

displaying editable lines of source code in a displayed editing region of the code editor;
mapping compilable or interpretable representation of the source code maintained in a buffer memory by the code editor to the editable lines of source code displayed in the editing region by the code editor;
and
replacing, in the editable lines of source code displayed in the editing region by the code editor, comments identified by compiling or interpreting the representation of the source code, with translations of the identified comments from a first human language to a second human language, wherein the code editor interfaces with a compiler or interpreter that compiles or interprets the representation of the source code maintained in the buffer memory to obtain the identified comments, and wherein the compiler or interpreter performs background compilations or interpretations of the representation of the source code responsive to edits of the editable lines of source code displayed in the editing region by the code editor.

1 more element

A computing device comprising storage hardware and processing hardware, the storage hardware storing information configured to cause the processing hardware to perform a process, the process comprising:

displaying lines of source code by a code editor configured to enable interactive editing of the displayed lines of the source code, wherein the displayed lines of the source code are stored in an editing buffer of the code editor;
analyzing syntax and grammar of the source code to identify comments and to provide a model of the source code, wherein the model of the source code comprises constructs of the source code not represented in the displayed lines of the source code stored in the editing buffer of the code editor, and wherein the analyzing is performed in a background compilation or interpretation of the source code responsive to edits of the displayed lines of the source code stored in the editing buffer of the code editor;
translating the identified comments from a first human language to a second human language based on determining that the identified comments are not in a preferred human language;
and
inserting the translated comments into the displayed lines of the source code.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/730,620Filed 30 Dec 2019 · continuation
Priority: 12 Mar 2018
Published: US 2020/0167132 A128 May 2020
Granted: 3 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 8/33
Creation or generation of source code: intelligent editors
G06F 8/34
Creation or generation of source code: graphical or visual programming
G06F 8/41
Transformation of program code: compilation
G06F 8/437
Semantic checking: type checking

Family

Application15/919,192Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Mar 2018
US 2020/0167132 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 May 2020
US 10,552,123 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0278569 A1Published application
US 11,080,024 B2This patent

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