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- Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LANGUAGE
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 12:10:25 GMT
- Organization: Omicron
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- c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
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- > >I like to use these features of vi, too, and I suppose it's sort of an
- > >argument for using them, but I don't think an editor should dictate language
- > >features or coding style. I think I tend to agree with you. I use the vi
- > >features to check the matching curlies, and for navigation, but with
- > >sensitive indentation, I would not need to check them, but I would miss the
- > >ability to jump to the start/end of a block. I'm not sure on this one.
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- >Those curlies appear in languages other than C, for which the syntax-directed
- >indentation method would fail, but the simple { } matching still works. I make
- >frequent use of it in TeX code, which would not benefit from a blind
- >application of C-style indentation at all.
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- >The matching is also helpful in typing ordinary english. Square brackets are
- >often used in quotes to indicate editorial material, (and parentheses go
- >without saying).
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- Need I say that Emacs indents and matches anything?
- You have a variable where you can set what should be matched by what.
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