Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!mephisto!prism!gitpyr!spencer From: spencer@pyr.gatech.EDU (Spencer Rugaber) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: A new idea (?) Message-ID: <9755@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 4 Jan 90 22:09:50 GMT References: <1558@aber-cs.UUCP> <129799@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: spencer@pyr.UUCP (Spencer Rugaber) Organization: Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Tech. Lines: 23 What you are talking about sounds like what was done for TEN/PLUS. This is an editing system that is provided with AIX on IBM RT's. It featured an editor capable of editing a large and extensible set of document types including text files, mail boxes, hierarchical data files, C programs, etc. The semantics of the editing/browsing/file manipulation are separated from the semanatics of the application, both internally and at the user interface. Thus, deleting a message from a mailbox, a line from a file, or a file from a directory, are accomplished with the same command by the user, but with different results in the system. The system is extensible and features a scripting language so that simple applications can be written by non-programmers. It can also be extended to new types of files by experienced C programmers. (Note: This system has been in existence since 1983, but I am unsure which of the features I have mentioned are actually available on the RT.) Spencer -- SPENCER RUGABER Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!spencer