Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!suitti
From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW wish list item
Message-ID: <7442@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 14 Sep 88 15:30:13 GMT
References: <29624@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <29624@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>It is too late for MPW 3, certainly; but one lack has only recently
>become more and more painful:  I wish the editor let one split a
>window, so I can keep the declarations at the top of a file or routine
>in view while I work on the stuff lower down in the file.
>	/JBL
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	I have the same problems with LSC 3.0.  I experimented with
using Jove (an EMACS), but it isn't part of the environment, so you
can't compile, etc.  I do still use Jove if there is going to be lots
of changes requiring macro capabilities.

	LSC's editor supports multiple windows, but only one per file.
My solution is to create a new window (new file), copy the stuff I
want to see to it, then, when done looking at it, close the window
(telling LSC not to save it).  This is a general solution, and
although it sounds cumbersome, it isn't really more difficult or
slower than using EMACS.  LSC's editor behaves in the MAC tradition,
with mouse oriented select/copy/paste.  This is the one operation that
mice are better at than the keyboard for editing.

	LSC's editor has a very nice find/replace system.  It does
replace all, it effectively does query replace, it can do complicated
regular expressions (though I don't use them often) and can do it over
multiple files (like a "foreach" in csh, with "sed").

	Though this is (replace system) very nice, it is not a macro
capability.  I just (re)installed system 6.0, and I will soon make an
attempt at using MacroMaker for some of this kind of thing.  I hear
that MacroMaker can slow the entire system by a factor of four
(bringing my Mac II's speed to that of an SE :-< ).  We'll see.

	Stephen.

ps: I used to wish System 6.0 was perfect rather than flawed.  Now I
wonder if it is "better".  I used to wish that the Mac II was awesome
and perfect, but now I see it as an open market for training and value
to be added.  I used to think that LSC was perfect, but now I see it
as only "the best".