On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:43 am, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> I am somewhat interested, though I haven't worked on it much
> lately. If you look at the FinderTool in the *UserInterface
> category, you'll see that it is already possible to do some basic
> searches (now that I think of it, one example is patterns such as
> "SourceFiles at: <anything>".
>
> The reasons I worked on the FinderTool, and not the full rewrite
> rule editor are two:
> A. The rewrite rule editor is usually quite hard for people to get
> used to.
> B. A "find" is easier to use, but a good prelude, to a rewrite.
>
> But it might be nice to complete the tool set. What did you have in
> mind? the usual UI? something smarter?

I understand that there is some work being done (or has been done?) on 
improving the Rewrite Editor for VW and other Smalltalks. I'd thought 
that even a simple/usual UI would be an improvment.

Being able to do a "dry run" of the resultant code is of course 
necessary (though as I recall the standard editor provided this).

I find myself wanting to do wholesale rewrites, and am not too sure 
how to do it with Smalltalk expressions in a Workspace.
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