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From: ntanaka@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Nobuyoshi Tanaka)
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Subject: Structured Editor vs. Text Editor
Keywords: editor
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Date: 25 Oct 88 00:20:37 GMT
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Please forgive me if this question was discussed before.

There are two main idea for editors, I think.  One is a simple text editor,
the other is a structured editor.  The structure editor will guarantee the
result of editing is legal for the specific programming language, of course.
So, in that point, it is superior to the simple text editor.  But, I feel
most of the existing structure editors are not so friendly for me.  Say,
when I want to move a cursor downward and to insert words, I may not do it
straight in the structured editor.  How do you think?  I know, it may
depend on programmers' taste.  Or, does anyone around there know the editor
that has both characteristics of the text editor and those of the structured
editor, i.e., in which we can move the cursor in the same way as in the text
editor and which guarantees the result of editing are legal to the language?

Any opinions and suggestions are appreciated.  Please send me an e-mail.
I will post the summary.

Thanks in advance and I apologize this is in poor English.