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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple developers & programming on the Mac
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Date: 16 Feb 89 19:28:52 GMT
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In article <28032@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>In article <3916@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes
>of LightSpeed C:
>>I would gladly pay an extra $25-$50 for an "optional-extra" editor with
>>nice features ... some sort of command/macro language, regular-expression
>>search, etc ...
>
>macro language: Macro makere is part of Apple's standard system release.
>regular-expression search: already in Lightspeed, ever since version 1.00!
>Read your manual!

That hardly compares with a macro editor, such as Emacs, which allows
you to combine sequences of searches and actions.  Emacs has even more
power than that but, Macro-Maker is a totally different animal that
only supports unconditional sequences and is not as convenient as a
built-in macro facility.

With regard to the price, I would also gladly pay an additional $50
for a good macro editor - first choice Emacs.  But, I can't help
thinking how everyone was drooling over the idea of a source level
debugger until the announcement of the $69 upgrade...  And while we're
at it, I'll also throw in another $75 for C++.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.