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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re:  editor in Pascal?
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 19:47:30 EDT
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In article <9344@brl-adm.ARPA> ESC1319%DDAESA10.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (Alun Saunders) writes:
>The only other Pascal editor I have come across is the one in the
>Software Tools in Pascal book by Kernighan and Plauger. It isn't a screen
>based editor, and bears more than a passing resemblance to "ed" I am
>told. I have heard of a project that used this editor as a basis for a
>fully fledged screen editor, but I can't put my finger on where I saw it now.

There was a paper by Fraser in Communications of the ACM sometime
between '78 and '83 on this very subject. Using his scheme, it is very
easy to write a front end set of procedures for ed that turn it into a
visual editor. I maintained such an editor (called "ge") when was a
graduate student at Princeton.  In addition, the source to turn ed
into a viusal editor was given in a tech report published by Frazer's
school, (U. of Arizona, I think.)  I thought his papers were great (He
also had one on adding unix shell style command redirection to such
editors ("<" and ">") as a cheap way of bundling up commands, a fast
and clean macro language.  (I think that was in Software Practise &
Experience.) He also did some neat work on optimizers and
machine-independent linkers. All great, impressive, clean stuff. I
wonder what he is doing now.

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