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From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Think Pascal (& maybe C) editors
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Date: 31 Aug 90 15:06:36 GMT
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In article <48689@brunix.UUCP> omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
> Here's a couple of suggestions which I think would add a lot of utility
> to the editors in the above mentioned languages:
> 
> 1) ...
> 
> 2) ... Thus, it would be great to have a "collapse" command - whereby 
all the text between
> the begin on the current line and it's companion end can be collapsed 
like
> an outliner.

I second this and would like to encourage THINK to add more "language 
sensitive editor" features to their compiler environments. For example, it 
would be useful to have a "palette" of syntactically correct language 
forms (case statement, record definition, etc.). Click on one, it gets 
inserted at the current cursor location. A nice feature for those of us 
that constantly move from language to language during the work day (if its 
10:00, this must be "C").

In another vein, I hope THINK will branch out and develop other 
programmer's tools. How about an "interface builder" for the TCL? Then I'd 
like to see them give Aranda a run for the money.

Herb Poppe             hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu
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