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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Anyone use SAM?
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov20155337@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:53:37 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov18104650@beluga.cs.man.ac.uk> <722179001.3244@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 19 Nov 92 13:16:41 GMT
-
- In article <722179001.3244@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- Hmmm. Having indentation _built in_ to your editor is something I'm always
- a bit wary of -- for example, I've yet to find a C mode in an editor which I
- think works sensibly; and when it comes to C++....
-
- True, but that's why I mainly write in Scheme :-)
- You might not like the syntax, but it is relatively easy to make the
- editor "do the right thing" wrt indentation.
-
- The alternatives are either to write some humongous GNUemacs-type
- functions to do it, or write a small, neat external tool which
- handles the job and is re-usable anywhere. I prefer the latter, but
- respect those who can tolerate the former.
-
- The actual code to do the indentation is not large, though I'll grant
- you that GNU Emacs is rather large for an editor, but then I don't
- think of it as an editor. As to being re-usable, I do use the code
- to indent Scheme, I just invoke Emacs from a script.
-
- bevan
-