Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!pete From: pete@titan.rice.edu (Pete Keleher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Programming Editor Message-ID: Date: 15 Jul 90 21:58:04 GMT References: <77021@cc.utah.edu> <14133@unix.SRI.COM> <11123@claris.com> <1990Jul15.100132.21941@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Whatsamatta U Lines: 24 In-reply-to: dankg@lightning.Berkeley.EDU's message of 15 Jul 90 10:01:32 GMT > I hate both Think C editor. I love Think C very much and that makes > me hate its editor even more: It's nothing more than TeachText: It doesn't > do autoindent smartly and never does autounindent. A lot of features I'm > so used on emacs are missing. That's such a drag because anything else > is great: Its debbuger kicks hell out of any other debuggers I know. > Is there any plan in Symantec to separate its editor from toplevel > environment like done to its debugger? I'd appreciate if they do so. I'd > even appreciate if one can write an add-on editor. If so will they release > the specs (i.e. data structure of buffer, tags, how to pass text to compiler > module, etc)? These are exactly the sentiments that caused Alpha, the programming editor that started this chain, to be written. I was disgusted with their brain-dead editor, and longed for emacs functionality (I mean whoever heard of an editor that can't search backwards!). At the same time, I recognise that the few things that their editor does, it does very well. Therefore I patterned the interface of Alpha after Think's. -- ============================================================================= Pete Keleher pete@titan.rice.edu The Alpha Editor is available from 'rascal.ics.utexas.edu' (128.83.144.1). =============================================================================