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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Subverting the Think C Editor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.120627.5632@kth.se>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:06:27 GMT
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- In <lind-270193094558@lind.ils.nwu.edu> lind@ils.nwu.edu (Jeff Lind) writes:
-
- >Well, perhaps I'm spoiled by having worked in MCL for a while now, but in
- >playing with THINK C lately I've been consistently dissapointed off by the
- >weak editor. It doesn't know anything about coding, really. I mean, it
- >won't match parentheses, it hardly does any indentation, it has very few
- >searching commands, it has no concept of a word or an expression, so you
- >can't do nice things like control-rightarrow to skip an entire word or
- >expression. It's basically teach-text.
-
- Huh!? Both cmd-rightarrow and option-rightarrow do stuff like move word
- and move line. Not to mention you can type cmd-b-rightarrow to match
- parentheses and move to the end of the expression.
-
- Add a few QuickKeys macros, and HEY! There you are.
-
- >So the question is: is there any way to *not* use this editor and
- >substitute some other one in some smooth way? I'd rather not run MPW or
- >MCL all the time, just for the editor.
-
- Try Alpha; however, you have to compile by switching to
- Think C and hit "Make." This will be changed in TC6, I believe.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
-
- "From now on I will re-label the EQ on the deck as Fizz and Wobble
- instead of HF and LF."
-