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- heading(MINCE Extensions
- by Dave W. Smith)
- Begin(Verbatim)
- address(August 7, 1981)
- Enclosed is a listing of some additional commands derived from EMACS &
- co. The commands to toggle the case of a character, and to write the
- file and exit are straightforward, and should require no additional
- discussion. However, the command to find matching delimiters may need
- a bit of explanation.
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- First note that the delimiter to match is extracted from the command
- by masking off the meta and Control-X bits. This means that you can
- add the command as either C-X-<delim> or M-<delim> with the same
- effect. I chose the M-<delim> form because I was used to it from
- another editor.
-
- The second point, which may interest those who attempt to use 'MoveTo'
- and 'MovePast' from Support.C, is that I rolled my own search code
- after choosing not to use 'MoveTo'. One obvious approach to searching
- for a delimiteris to use 'MoveTo', passing it a predicate function
- that keeps track of matching delimiters on the side, such that the
- predicate returns true only when it sees the delimiter that really
- matches. This works in most cases, and is a fairly elegant solution.
- However, 'MoveTo' checks first to see if you've moved backward to the
- start of the buffer, and returns WITHOUT CALLING THE PREDICATE if you
- have. Thus if you're searching for a matching delimiter that happens
- to be the first character in the buffer, the search will fail! This
- isn't a problem if you're searching forward in the file.
-
- Moral ( Beware of tricky predicates! )
-
- I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has successfully
- added an equivalent to the EMACS M-! command (move line to top of
- foot(I looked in my EMACS Manual, corresponding to EMACS
- version 150, and can't find M-! or a ^R command that seems to
- correspond. -Barry). If you've managed to do it, PLEASE submit the code
- to AUG. I've tried a couple of times, but I can't seem to make it work
- in all cases.
- display(-Enjoy
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- Dave W. Smith
- 450 N. Mathilda, #O-103
- Sunnyvale, CA. 94086)
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