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From: liberte@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 23 Mar 89 04:51:00 GMT
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> By the way, since the discussion, I think someone wrote a package for GNU Emacs
> to consult an incremental parser for the language you were editing, which
> supposedly did some interesting things.

Leif is that incremental parser.  In GNU Emacs, with leif-mode, changes
to your buffer are trapped and sent to the parser.  Leif can load up
a number of different language descriptions (bison and lex tables) to
enable it to parse your text.  When you ask for feedback, it can
quickly tell you where your syntax errors are.

Leif is free and available via anonymous ftp to a.cs.uiuc.edu.
Mail to leif@cs.uiuc.edu for more info.

Dan LaLiberte
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