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From: stan@Dixie.Com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint (was: Funny mistake)
Message-ID: <9001@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 31 Mar 91 16:13:02 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.175558.6738@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar30.050756.19964@ingres.Ingres.COM>
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jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger) writes:

=>From article <1991Mar27.175558.6738@zoo.toronto.edu>, by henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer):
=>> Which brings to mind the image of the ANSI C compiler Ken Thompson would
=>> write:  all it prints for an error message is the page number in the
=>> standard... :-) :-) :-) :-)

=>Not a bad idea at all.  Then one can have an ansi-c-mode in one's favorite
=>editor that pulls up the standard, open to the relevant page, next to an
=>editing window with your cursor on the offending source line.

	I like it.  But what would we don on non X terminal editors ?


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