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From: liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: More (ad nauseum) on removing punct
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Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 17:12:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  3 17:12:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!liberte    Nov  3 16:12:00 1986


I rather like the editor that comes with Macintosh Pascal, and its sibling,
Lightspeed Pascal from Think, Inc..  It allows character level editing
but reformats whenever you hit ";" return  or start a more distant
modification.  The reformating is syntax dependent but only changes the
following text.  Since the display is kept consistent, a complete reparse
is not needed.  

This periodic reformating provides almost instant feedback as to whether your
brackets match up since you, the human, can quickly tell whether the
indentation is right.  Even if the "end" is several pages after the
"begin", you can see that your procedure doesnt end right, or whatever.
The only problem is if you dont like how it indents.  But you can turn
off indenting if you want to go it alone.


Dan LaLiberte
liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu
liberte@uiuc.csnet
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