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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Anyone use SAM?
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov18104650@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:46:50 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov13115635@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk> <722004268.18766@minster.york.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: pete@minster.york.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 12:44:29 GMT
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- In article <722004268.18766@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- : 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.
-
- 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...
-
- This is obviously _a_ solution, it is just not the one I'm used to.
- I'm still used to the editor indenting on the fly. As I wrote, maybe
- I've been spoilt and just need to adjust the sam way of thinking.
-
- bevan
-