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Article #3346Re: Editor extensibility
From: Ian Moor
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 17:29
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 17:29
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The TPU system on VMS is extensible - DEC supply an EDT emulation and the EVE interface written in TPU -- I think the LSE (language sensitive editor) that DEC sells is also written in TPU. There was a good emulation of VI in TPU posted recently. TPU looks a bit like MODULA2/ALGOL68/ADA it has keywords instead of functions :- IF x THEN y ELSE z ENDIF instead of (if x y z) I have seen more and better documentation on using TPU than Emacs lisp (hint). Another interesting extensible editor is XEDIT on IBM's VM/CMS, you think Emacs' dired mode is useful ? Try FILELIST on CMS. Another aspect is that the programming languages that you use to program the editor are also used for writing command files : as if you were to write shell scripts in elisp. There are hooks so that any program like a source level debugger that needs a control language can use REXX.
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