A wish: "This function is OK, do not warn me again!"

rinus plasmeijer rinus@cs.kun.nl
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:12:52 +0200


>I think I'd rather see the Clean team work on the language/compiler/etc.
>Mr. Zuurbier's suggestion is otherwise an excellent one for a programming
>editor. It seems that programmers want intelligent editors, but they never
>seem to catch on (I don't know why). VMS had a syntax aware editor in 1985
>or so, we all know about EMACS, and there have been many other attempts at
>things like literate programming. Yet we are still stuck with isolated,
>plain-text, editors.
>
>I have elsewhere suggested that the Clean IDE leverage existing editors,
>such as Alpha and BBEdit.

Would be nice if there was one editor which we could use on all platforms.
In our group Arjan is working on a new platform independent editor (written in Clean) we plan to use in our new IDE.
We will make the code available such that people can extend it.  


Greetings,

Rinus