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- From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Anyone use SAM?
- Message-ID: <722004268.18766@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:44:29 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov13115635@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Stephen J Bevan (bevan@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- [I (pete@minster) wrote, about Sam:]
- : (4) It does what I want it to do, without the need for me to write
- : a pile of silly macros or Lisp functions.
- :
- : I agree with the first three. The fourth point is one of the problems
- : I have with it: in a couple of cases it doesn't do what I want, and
- : there is no simple way to extend it. A prime example is knowing
- : something about the indentation of languages. I write a fair amount
- : of Scheme and I find it tough going in sam. Maybe I've been spoilt by
- : previous editors or maybe it is part of Pike's philosophy that the
- : editor should not help with indentation ... etc.
- :
- : bevan
-
- But the redirection mechanism inside sam allows you to pipe arbitrary blocks of
- text through Unix pipelines -- write a scheme indentation tool, select your
- block of Lisp and then use the ``|'' command in the command window to pipe
- it through the formatter...
-
- So yes, as I see it that sort of mechanism is taken care of by external
- means, keeping the editor as small and neat as possible.
-
- Pete
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