Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.transputer From: Paul O Bartlett Subject: Re: Folding editors In-Reply-To: <71mhq4$2ld$1@news3.Belgium.EU.net> Message-Id: References: <36374B57.168B9492@pact.srf.ac.uk> <71aj0c$oc$1@fangorn.moria.de> <6r1znq7264.fsf@belhaven.spider.com> <3639BEFD.2CC25E3C@esgem.com> <71mhq4$2ld$1@news3.Belgium.EU.net> Return-Receipt-To: pobart@access.digex.net Organization: Express Access Private Account Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:16:59 -0500 Xref: ukc comp.editors:32046 comp.sys.transputer:8904 On 3 Nov 1998, Ives Aerts wrote: > > In article , Paul O Bartlett writes: > > I learned the value of folding back in the days when I beat to > > death the VM/CMS editor XEDIT. > > Now *that* was truely an editor that was ahead of it's time. The > folding and the integration with REXX were awesome! Truly. People used to write (I suppose still do) almost whole applications within the editor itself to make use of its power and the integration with REXX. They would suck the data to be processed into the editor and grind it up with editor commands and macros in REXX and then spit it back out. I supported an interface between an SMTP server and the email component of IBM's proprietary Professional Office System (PROFS). The guts of the interface was a giant editor macro. Maybe a little like Emacs fanatics doing most of their non-editing work still within Emacs. -- Paul .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart