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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Yet another screen editor
Keywords: new editor
Message-ID: <636@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 12 Jan 91 11:08:24 GMT
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Organization: CAD.LAB, Bologna, Italia
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My opinion: please do include enough programming power that a modal
editor can be emulated; i.e. a good test for a modal editor is, can
I do FULL vi in it.  Full use of funny keys (sending escape sequences)
optional popup help menus (with some timeout, e.g. on ^Y the menu
will appear iff other keys are not ready 'at once', any keypress
during painting of the menu may be obeyed while menu-painting is
stopped or undone).  Escape to other programming languages (i've
got this nice italian-hyphenation routine in C, how do I integrate
it seamlessly).  Just a few thoughts off the top of my head.
Please do summarize to the net in a while.
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