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From: norbert@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Norbert Lindenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW cmd language
Keywords: MPW
Message-ID: <919@iraun1.ira.uka.de>
Date: 27 Jun 89 12:28:31 GMT
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Reply-To: norbert@ira.uka.de (Norbert Lindenberg)
Organization: Karlsruhe University, West-Germany
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In article <495@unicads.UUCP> tom@unicads.UUCP (Tom Gerardy) writes:
>I am trying to put up ctags and a vi/tags like facility in MPW (actually
>it is already working.)  The output of the tag tool is a string of MPW
>commands to open the file and find the search string.
>...
>Currently I am having to write the output to a file and execute it as
>a script.  This seems to slow things down considerably since both "open"
>and "find" are builtins.

I developed a similar package for MPW Pascal some time ago
(LookupDeclaration, available from the info-mac archives),
and also could not find a better way. Probably there is none...

-- Norbert