Re: comments on CVS from 2002-07-14 15:58 (long)

[Han-Wen]

address@hidden writes:
> Apropos abbreviations: I have two requests which could save a lot of
> time for typing:

I have become very suspicious of input changes designed to lessen
typing work. They're a lot of work to implement, usually have unclean
semantics, and are hard to read for other people. What's so special
about this that cannot be accomplished with a emacs keybinding/function?

I must confess that I do like the proposal that Rune submitted some
time ago (repeating the last `simple' element with a letter, eg. the
x), but the same reasoning applies.

>   . I want simple macros with arguments, e.g.
> 
>       boring = <$1> 4*<8>

No.  Macro's can be done with CPP or M4.


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