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From: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: M2Amiga, another bunch of answers
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 17:39:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 17:39:08 1987
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In article <3476@aw.sei.cmu.edu> firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>On the other hand, a REAL language sensitive editor would be very
>useful.  Imagine placing the cursor on an identifier and being able
>with one click or keystroke to bring up its declaration.  Overload
>resolution and cross-module resolution done for you.  Imagine being
>able to see the fully qualified name of the identifier, with another
>click.  Imagine it tracking the range of a numeric expression as you
>type, and displaying that range in a little box.  And so on.

Though you probably don't care, the Lightspeed C editor for the Mac
does a lot of this stuff (though not all).

And, yes, it IS very useful.

Robert Gardner