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In several other newsgroups I recently asked about program editors that
support a literate programming style for the C language.  It should
allow me to enter pseudo-code such as

	if <the device is not responding> {
		<stop with device failure error>
	}

then select individual pseudo-code expressions (here delimited by <>)
and edit them in native C (either by expanding the <> macro in-place or
showing the expanded phrase in a new window).  The ability to switch
back and forth between pseudo-expression and C representations is
critical.  Also important is the maintenance of the pseudo-expressions
as comments in program listings.


Bob Bagwill <bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov> replied:

|  Probably the fastest/cheapest/easiest way to get this is to see if there
|  are similar GNU EMACS templates available, and change them.


This sounded right.  An extensible editor would be the perfect place to
implement my desired tool, and I know of language-sensitive macros for
EMACS.  Unfortunately, I am not at the moment a GNU EMACS user (or
programmer), so I don't know where to look for such templates.
Moreover, I don't know how easy/difficult or feasible/infeasible this
would be to accomplish.

I'm looking for

1. programs/templates that might be appropriate starting points, 
2. advice on the feasibility of the suggestion, and
3. advice on how to go about the task.


Please email to jonathan@cs.pitt.edu.  Thanks.