From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,629e11b80bdec45d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-13 00:06:01 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pogner.demon.co.uk!zap!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal) Date: 12 May 2001 18:23:16 +0100 Organization: CodeFella Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 989737549 nnrp-10:11639 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2001 17:23:16 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7440 Date: 2001-05-12T17:23:16+00:00 List-Id: "Beard, Frank" writes: > I miss the repeat function in emacs, where you could repeat > an action anywhere in a file. That would definitely come in > handy when we have to add an update comment to the end of > every line that we modify. Jings! management gone mad! you need to look into a proper source code management system. CVS is free (so is SCCS, but why you would want to use it I don't know ..) What do your source files look like after a few updates? full of crap telling me who changed stuff and (perhaps) why, completely obscuring the program logic and making it look so ugly that anyone with the faintest sense of aesthetics comes over faint when asked to look at it. (Frank, I quite understand that this sort of thing is a policy imposed from on high, not what you'd necessarily choose to do).