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Aucbvax.4939 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people Tue Nov 3 11:35:46 1981 structured TEXT editing >From EAK@MIT-MC Tue Nov 3 11:07:11 1981 I've not yet read the article, but it sounds like even if conceptually his system is no more than an editor and document compiler as you say, implementing it efficiently or naturally in an existing editor might be difficult. You clearly don't want to Scribe the whole document just to get the .OTL file. Here perhaps better control over redisplay(*) could help. For example, even the simple hack described in an editor presented at the SIGPLAN text manipulation conference where all lines with indentation > X are not displayed would be useful for working with some kinds of outlines. Also, the ability to put structure data in the file that isn't displayed might be nice. Therefore I'd like hear of ideas for making the decision of what to display flexible so that you can play with ideas such as these without writing a whole new editor (which at least dampens my enthusiasm sometimes). Btw, is everyone on the list familiar with NLS?

(*) someone might jump on me for using "redisplay" in this fashion, but I don't have a better word, and I think you know what I'm getting at.

[P.S. from JQJ: Mark Chilenskas has pointed out to me that one such display editor with indentation hack is IBM's SPF (Structured Program Facility).]

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