Xref: utzoo comp.editors:43 comp.lang.lisp:583 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hao!noao!arizona!gudeman From: gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Structure vs. text editors Message-ID: <3210@megaron.arizona.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 21:38:36 GMT Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 10 In article <961@klipper.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes: >Just try, in whatever programmable text editor you want, to edit >the code of the editor itself, implementing new commands, and use >each command in the same session immediately after its code is >edited in. >That's the difference between text and structure editors: whether >the thing which is changing is "the real thing" or a text copy. I do that all the time in GNU Emacs (a programmable text editor). What's the big deal?