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sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer) writes:

>jake@skatter.usask.ca wrote:
>: From article <1fg7kqINNi29@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, by isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell):
>: > 
>: > 
>: > What Edit needs is emacs' CM-b and CM-f functionality to conveniently jump to
>: > the start and end of a bracketed clause so that those starting brackets can be
>: > easily inserted.
>: > -- 
>: > 
>: > Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
>:  What Edit needs is to be able to interpret elisp.
>
>What NeXTstep needs is an independent USER AGENT object that sits outside
>of any and all programs, accepts commands in some suitable language, and
>executes them.  If the language happened to be elisp, then that set of
>capabilities could be extracted from emacs.  Emacs could still use it to
>work exacctly the way it works now.  Edit could use it.  NeXTMail could
>use it.  All god's chillun could use it.
>
No, you didn't say REXX, don't you };-)>
User Agent objects of this kind are a fine idea, but their succes
or failure mainly depends on how widespread they become (= how many
applications are available to export functions through UAs) and on
the amount of fiddling around with the system they will save you from.
GNU-Emacs is fine as long as you're lisp-wizard or can live with those
packets you can get from the net. But it grows and grows...
So, a more general approach would be of more use, perhaps someone
has compiled REXX for the NeXT and has build a nice sample-app
to show its use under NeXTstep ? Or perhaps NeXT Inc. will show us a
mindbogglingly new way in user-configurable interprocess communication ?

>   USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT  USER AGENT
>
REXX REXX REXX REXX REXX ?????

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