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From: emoffatt@cognos.uucp (Eric Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <5620@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 14:48:07 GMT
References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <252@torch.UUCP> <2112@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com> <743@stag.UUCP>
Reply-To: emoffatt@cognos.UUCP (Eric Moffatt)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <743@stag.UUCP> trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes:
>In article <2112@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com> loo@mister-curious.sw.mcc.com (Joel Loo) writes:
>>
>
>How do other programmers/hackers out there feel about the need for
>higher level programming editors/tools? Are you completely happy with
>your current editor, so things like folding and inter-file
>relationships aren't really of any foreseeable use? Is moded vs.
>non-moded really the issue between editors, or is it non-programmable
>vs. programmable, or does it simply boil down to the actual options
>and commands you have available in an editor?
>
>  -Todd Burkey
>   trb@stag.UUCP
>   or ... tburkey@eta.com


For my money moded vs. non-moded... is not really an issue. I have used VI,
XEDIT, TECO, Apollo and about twenty other text editors over the years. I
would LOVE to see some good LANGUAGE SPECIFIC editors !! A friend and I
used to spend lunches discussing a C editor which worked on the parse tree
and not "TEXT". It really seemed like a good idea, things like "copy IF
statement (or FOR, WHILE...)" as well as "rename global var" etc. not
to mention checking for proper syntax (on command, I hate it when my
terminal BEEPS at me when I'm just power coding :-). Does anyone know of
any such editors ??

Text is just the method we use to describe the things we want the machine
to do. It's not neccessarily the best way, I would gladly use a "visual
Programmer" (if I could find one !!).


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