Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!lloyd!kent
From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LSP 2.0
Keywords: pretty print editor
Message-ID: <148@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 19 Aug 88 14:09:55 GMT
References: <892@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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I like the smart editor, but it does take some getting use to.  Once
while adding a begin/end pair the editor grabbed an `end' for me and
put it where I needed my `end', I forgot I had not typed my own `end'.
By the time I got to compiling I didn't realize that that was why the
compiler was complaining.

After reading Rich's recent explaination about why the editor behaves
the way it does, I appreciate better not only that it would be
difficult to change, but that it is not at all clear exactly how it
should be changed.

I will say that the editor should support arrow keys, option arrow
keys, command arrow keys, etc.  All the applicable User Interface
Guidelines stuff.  That would be easier to fix than the pretty
printing and I think more important.  (I think I heard Rich say at
MacWorld that the LSP 2.0 editor does NOT do arrow keys)

Kent Borg
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