Subject: Re: Why do I get error messages when using tabs?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:12:49 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <-dGdnUMn1cocj13bnZ2dnUVZ_tvinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Thomas F. Burdick <tburdick@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| On Aug 12, 4:18 am, r...@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > Now, it is also true that it's far easier to code good Lisp if one's
| > editor has at least these three capabilities:
| > 1. Simple auto-indentation to the same level as the previous line...
| > 2. The ability to shift groups of lines back & forth ...
| > 3. Parentheses-matching, that is, will blink or otherwise show
| >    you the matching open parenthesis when you type a closing one...
| 
| Leaving, what ... the various Emacs-like editors and
| (re)implementations of Vi?
+---------------

Certainly those two, but it's not unimaginable that there are
a bunch of other editors running on, say, Windows or the Mac
[neither of which I use, so I don't know what's available there
and what's not] that have at least those these three capabilities.


-Rob

-----
Rob Warnock			<rpw3@rpw3.org>
627 26th Avenue			<URL:http://rpw3.org/>
San Mateo, CA 94403		(650)572-2607