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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
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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.
>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?