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Stephen J Bevan (bevan@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <722004268.18766@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
:    : A prime example is knowing
:    : something about the indentation of languages.  I write a fair amount
:    : of Scheme and I find it tough going in sam.
:    
:    But the redirection mechanism inside sam allows you to pipe
:    arbitrary blocks of text through Unix pipelines -- write a scheme
:    indentation tool, select your block of Lisp and then use the ``|''
:    command in the command window to pipe it through the formatter...
: 
: This is obviously _a_ solution, it is just not the one I'm used to.
: I'm still used to the editor indenting on the fly.   As I wrote, maybe
: I've been spoilt and just need to adjust the sam way of thinking.

Hmmm. Having indentation _built in_ to your editor is something I'm always
a bit wary of -- for example, I've yet to find a C mode in an editor which I
think works sensibly; and when it comes to C++.... The alternatives are
either to write some humongous GNUemacs-type functions to do it, or write a
small, neat external tool which handles the job and is re-usable anywhere. I
prefer the latter, but respect those who can tolerate the former.

Pete
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