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From: pnr@santra.UUCP (Pekka Nikander)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.emacs
Subject: Looking for emacs-like editing commands for Smalltalk
Message-ID: <9613@santra.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 10:53:26 GMT
Reply-To: pnr@hupu.UUCP (Pekka Nikander)
Followup-To: comp.lang.smalltalk
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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I am looking for emacs like editing commands for Smalltalk-80
(ParcPlace VM1.1 VI2.2).  I have been using Gnu Emacs for a long time
and do not find operating with a mouse as handy as with keypad keys.
I also miss automagic indentation of code, abbrev-mode etc.

If you know about any (publicdomain or commercial) packages, please
let me know.  I'll summarize to the net.

In the case there does not exist any packages, I might be willing to
implement some basic commands and share them with the rest of world.
I already hacked to work the most basic commands, i.e. backward-char,
forward-char, next-line etc.  I put them into the ParagraphEditor, so
that I can now use them everywhere.  However, the implementation is
quite ugly, and I think the whole text editing subsystem should be
partially re-designed to get emacs-like commands to work neatly.  (The
final goal would naturally be the re-implementation of the C-part of
Gnu Emacs in Smalltalk and an Elisp to Smalltalk compiler... :-)

--Pekka Nikander			| pnr@hupu.hut.fi
Helsinki University of Technology	| ...!mcvax!santra!hupu!pnr