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Article #3047Re: Structure vs. text editors
From: Matt Landau
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1987 16:45
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1987 16:45
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In comp.editors (<961@klipper.cs.vu.nl>), biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes: > >Just try, in whatever programmable text editor you want, to edit >the code of the editor itself, implementing new commands, and use >each command in the same session immediately after its code is >edited in. Gee, I do this all the time in various flavors of Emacs. Many Emacs functions in ANY version of Emacs are implemented in (some dialect of) Lisp, and it's not at all uncommon to load them up into the editor, modify the way they work, reinterpret the code (Meta-X execute-buffer), and start using the new versions immediately.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Structure vs. text editors Message-ID: <10433@slate.BBN.COM> Date: 15 Dec 87 16:45:54 GMT References: <487@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <460@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <499@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <961@klipper.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) Organization: BBN Laboratories Incorporated, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13