From nellardo@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx Sat Sep 18 16:34:12 1999 X-Digest-Num: 237 Message-ID: <44114.237.1296.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: David Brookshire Conner >Rather than having the compute suddenly spit out some text, I would > >prefer that it automatically recognizes that I'm starting a new > >paragraph when I type ".ni'o" and hence does the right thing for me > >(e.g. hangs ".ni'o" to the left, ".ni'oni'o" further left, etc.) > > > >Well... this is just my personal taste. > > I'm with you. When I programmed in Pascal (it was for school, sorry) I > always used to disable Pascal-abbrev-mode because I didn't like the machine > trying to complete my code for me. Maybe I don't WANT begin/end pairs. Or > whatever. Or maybe I just like typing everything in. No need to apologize - I wrote a whole damn textbook on the stuff :-) As for whether or not to have the machine spit out ".i" or "ni'o" or whatever, I was talking about Framemaker. It's very easy to get Frame to automatically add text to a "paragraph" at either end. Defining new key bindings is possible but much more arcane. An emacs version, of course, would do something like the following: When the user types ".", see if there is a preceding consonant - if so, it's a name, format accordingly (add a space, skip over it) If not, then wait to see if you're doing .i or .ni'o or whatever and act accordingly as soon as you know. > >Has anyone of you brought up syntax-highlighting using font-lock-mode? > >It'd be nice to have the gismu, rafsi and cmavo displayed in different > >colors. Better still, different categories of cmavo can be displayed > >in their own colors, with open cmavo have the same color as the > >closing ones (such as "le" and "ku"). > > In fact, paren-matching would be a HANDY thing (and more > device-independent) for terminators. Yep - see my other post detailing the steps..... Brook --------- ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI! --------- Fancy. Myth. Magic. http://www.concentric.net/~nellardo/