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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
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Date: 28 Apr 91 13:26:30 GMT
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From the keyboard of ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng):
:Actually, multiple windows buys you little unless you either have only
:one routine you refer to or you have a seperate window for each and
:every function declaration (while I tend to have very busy windows,
:this would be loony).  Also, with XEDIT, I could write a program to
:automantically mask off the proper areas.  

Judicious use of a tags file can help a great deal.  Plus I don't want to
program every window with my editor; if I did, I'd use emacs.  If a tag
lookup on the function in another window doesn't make me happy, I'm
content to do a "grep -C '^[a-z]' *.c" in a separate window as a rough
hack at pulling out the function header. (That's using GNU grep's -C for
context flag.)

--tom