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From: humphrie@cat3.cs.wisc.edu (William Humphries)
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Subject: Language Sensitive Editors (UNIX and VMS)
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Date: 1 Feb 90 06:25:56 GMT
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I ment to mail this but DAEMON didn't like the addressing.

I don't know of any UNIX products, but if you want a benchmark check out
LSE (language sensitive editor).  It's part of the distribution with
DEC's VMS OS for the VAX.  It knows FORTRAN, PASCAL and C.  Plus you can
define your own style sheets (for things other than computer languages such
as form letters.)

I like it because it allows you to compile in the editor and go directly to
syntax errors.  The style sheets are pop-up menus.

My only complaint is that the command to go from an error listing to the
location in source, ^g, is the same command that pops you out of your
current session to the terminal server program in a VAX cluster.

Hope this helps.

Bill Humphries / HUMPHRIES2@WISSSC.bitnet / Applications Programmers Kill
					    What They Eat.