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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Structure vs. text editors
Message-ID: <217@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Dec 87 22:29:55 GMT
References: <487@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <460@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <499@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <961@klipper.cs.vu.nl> <522@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
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In article <522@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> ram@WB1.CS.CMU.EDU (Rob MacLachlan) writes:
	<a clear and reasonable presentation of the issues>

Thank you.  The distinction between structure editors (in general) and
list-structure editors should be kept in mind if this discussion continues.

>In fact, one could make an argument that Zmacs and Hemlock really are
>"structure editors", since they incrementally annotate the text
>representation with non-trivial syntactic information such as "inside a
>comment".

I suggested that this might be done in an earlier message and so am
glad to see it's actually been implemented.

Jeff Dalton,                      JANET: J.Dalton@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,        ARPA:  J.Dalton%uk.ac.ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Edinburgh University.             UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!J.Dalton