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Re: Visual editing
- To: Matthias Häußer <haeusser at debis dot com>
- Subject: Re: Visual editing
- From: Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu at cup dot hp dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:21:51 -0700
- Cc: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:43:31 +0200, Matthias Häußer <haeusser@debis.com> wrote:
> > We have begun writing an XML editor for KDE which will (hopefully) be
> > extended to support drag-and drop type editing of XSL/XSLT stylesheets too.
> >
> > Are there any things that
> > you would like to see in an editor,
> > you think are great in the one you use,
> > or really irritate you?
>
> First of all, I suppose the editor will be free?
> I would like to see:
>
> - IDE-like completion of commands, i.e. a small window popping up when I
> type
> <xsl:
> with all possible completions
>
> - a hotkey to close the most recently opened element
>
> - no need to use the mouse
This sounds awfully close to the PSGML mode in (X)emacs.
> - on-the-fly syntax-checking (similar to M$ Word's spell-checking)
The flyspell mode for (X)emacs does this very nicely.
Check out one of the emacs variants at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
http://www.xemacs.org/
Both of them run just fine on all the major Unix variants and on Windows. I
believe MacOS version should be also available.
Regards,
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