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From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll)
Subject: Re: Tradition Lisp code formatting
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 20:12:28 GMT

 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...]

For anyone who likes the blocky style, you might want to check out my
Emacs lisp-mode extension in the Epoch distribution. Unfortunately, it
doesn't work in normal Emacs due to a bug in scan_sexps_forward()
(although I haven't tried it in 18.57).

-- 
Alan M. Carroll          <-- Another casualty of applied metaphysics
Epoch Development Team   
Urbana Il.               "I hate shopping with the reality-impaired" - Susan