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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:34:54 -0500
- From: Todd Jonker <tj00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Subverting the Think C Editor
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan27.164242.7541@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
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- Jamie R. McCarthy sez;
- > lind@ils.nwu.edu (Jeff Lind) writes:
- > >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.
- > Cmd-rightarrow skips a word.
- > And as for skipping _expressions_...I'm glad it doesn't even try. It
- > would have to all but compile the code to parse it well enough to figure
- > out where expressions start and stop.
-
- Pooh. Have you ever used GNU Emacs with c-mode? Such things are not
- terribly difficult to do, and make coding unspeakably easier. Things
- are even better under Epoch, which lets you show code, comments, and
- strings in different colors, which greatly improves readablity. I
- joyfully use this setup at work (actually using C++ and c++-mode), and
- as a result I whimper silently to myself whenever I sit down at my Mac
- and attempt to crawl around in ThinkC.
-
- I haven't used Alpha since it's early days, and was much impressed even
- then. I avoided using it since it was a pain to switch back and forth
- all the time. Does the latest version do anything like c-mode? Color?
- Are you there Pete?
-
- > --
- > Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
- > "I don't think people need optimization any more. ... If you look at the
- > history of programming-language design, almost every major screw-up is a
- > consequence of people pandering to some optimization...." - S. Wolfram
-
-
- . . . Todd V. Jonker . . . . . Carnegie Mellon University . . .
- . . . tjonker@cs.cmu.edu . . . Information Technology Center . . .
-
- ---> Free your mind, and the rest will follow <---
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