pnr@santra.UUCP (Pekka Nikander) (12/26/87)
I am looking for emacs like editing commands for Smalltalk-80 (ParcPlace VM1.1 VI2.2). I have been using Gnu Emacs for a long time and do not find operating with a mouse as handy as with keypad keys. I also miss automagic indentation of code, abbrev-mode etc. If you know about any (publicdomain or commercial) packages, please let me know. I'll summarize to the net. In the case there does not exist any packages, I might be willing to implement some basic commands and share them with the rest of world. I already hacked to work the most basic commands, i.e. backward-char, forward-char, next-line etc. I put them into the ParagraphEditor, so that I can now use them everywhere. However, the implementation is quite ugly, and I think the whole text editing subsystem should be partially re-designed to get emacs-like commands to work neatly. (The final goal would naturally be the re-implementation of the C-part of Gnu Emacs in Smalltalk and an Elisp to Smalltalk compiler... :-) --Pekka Nikander | pnr@hupu.hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology | ...!mcvax!santra!hupu!pnr