Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!pds From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: lisp environments Summary: So the Symbolics editor is a text AND structure editor! Message-ID: <471@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 01:22:39 GMT References: <487@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <460@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <13731@think.UUCP> Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 In article <13731@think.UUCP>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes: > I'm posting this for a friend who used to work for Symbolics > ----------------- > ...The editor > maintains a partial parse of the program in an auxiliary data structure. > It uses event counts to update the parse as the user changes the code. So the Symbolics editor is a text AND structure editor! This approach seems like it has the best of both worlds. But how partial is partial? And how long does it take to start up an edit on a fairly large file? Will it let you know you have a syntax error before you get far afield? Or do you have to explicitly ASK the system? > Its always depressing > to see a bunch of people yammering back and forth with a religious dispute > instead of finding the compromise position right in front of their > noses. I did suggest a compromise in an earlier posting. -- -Peter Schachte pds@quintus.uucp ...!sun!quintus!pds