Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Path: utzoo!sq!dak
From: dak@sq.sq.com (David A Keldsen)
Subject: Re: Tradition Lisp code formatting
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.094106.24994@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
References: <20899@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Jun23.190212.9552@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 09:41:06 GMT
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datangua@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay) writes:

>In article <20899@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> sboswell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (....What Is?....) writes:
>>How did the traditional style of Lisp code turn out to be so crunched
>>together?
>[... example showing a more blocky format than the traditional lisp...]

>When I recently wrote my first non-trivial Scheme program I used a very
>similar format (amazingly similar, I'm tempted to say). Not only did I find
>it much more readable, it was also much easier to move code around with VI. 

All you have to do to move Lisp code around in vi is to d% 
(or "ad% if you prefer).  Delete to the matching paren suffices...
then judicious use of P or p to paste it, and....voila!

(Who says lisp hackers don't use vi?)

Dak
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