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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 24 Mar 89 15:28:08 GMT
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In article <5620@cognos.UUCP> emoffatt@cognos.UUCP (Eric Moffatt) writes:
[...]
>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 ??

Well the Pascal compiler/editor "Alice" does just this.  They have a 
virtually free demo version that would let you try it out.  My opinion --
good idea for students learning the language, but a real drag once you
know what you are doing.

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