Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!arizona!mike
From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Structure vs. text editors
Message-ID: <3206@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 87 16:25:04 GMT
References: <487@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <460@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <499@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <961@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: mike@megaron.arizona.edu.UUCP (Mike Coffin)
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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.
Yup, this is a real problem.  In Gnuemacs, when I edit the code of the
editor, I am forced to type one (1) keystroke to actually put the new
definition into effect.  Onerous.
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