Re: Smart textual editors

On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Peach Microsystems wrote:


> How about an editor that just keeps track of what function the cursor is in
> and, whenever you move out of one function, does a syntax check on the
> function you've just left?
> Seems to me this would be much easier than an always-checking editor,
> and almost as useful.


For this we must make sure that the user gets at least one thing always
right: and that would be the opening and closing parantheses (of all kinds),
and also the punctuation ( ; , " etc). Otherwise we ("the editor") won't know
the function has ended.


Of course, a very clever editor would take into account the habits of the
programmer, such as leaving a blank line after the beginning another function
(that is my habit :-).


Mihai


Mihai Christodorescu
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