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- From: tej@world.std.com (Thomas E Janzen)
- Subject: Re: Q: Is Microsoft's Visual C & SDK best for developing c progs f W 3.11
- Message-ID: <Dp77H8.DI4@world.std.com>
- Summary: VMS Language Sensitive Editor had that too
- Keywords: editors, on-line help
- Sender: tej@world.std.com
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1995Jul3.034108.4193@rcmcon.com> <315B0C69.625B@msa.sps.mot.com> <4ji9b0$h90@news4.digex.net> <316017F7.72E0@Salsa.WallData.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:29:28 GMT
-
- In article <316017F7.72E0@Salsa.WallData.com>,
- Jerry Houston <jhouston@Salsa.WallData.com> wrote:
- >But for a reminder of the order of
- >parameters in a seldom-used function call, there's nothin' like being
- >able to type the function name and press <F1>!
-
- This was a feature of VAX VMS Language-Sensitive Editor. If they didn't
- kill the product, it's still under OpenVMS.
- You could type "fprintf" and ^E or similar, and "fprintf" becomes a token
- which is expanded to a function with placeholders for the arguments.
- Most VAX compiler languages were supported. Language Sensitive Editor
- also allowed the creation of new languages, which I did 7 times, for
- PDP11 MACRO-11, Tektronix TEKTEST, CUPL pld language, and others.
- You could also add voluminous help if you wanted, which I often did.
- A couple keystrokes and you got the help file ("man" pages) for "fprintf".
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