[squeak-dev] support of various line ends in trunk
Juan Vuletich
juan at jvuletich.org
Tue Nov 17 14:00:06 UTC 2009
Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
> ...
> That's where we could choose one or another line endings etc.. but not
> in text editor, which is a nonsense because it deals with live
> objects.
>
The editors in Squeak (in browsers, for example) deal with live objects:
instances of class String. They might include any sequence of
characters. Including those you don't like.
>> In Squeak, the editor is the way a developer has to interact (i.e. edit)
>> String objects. It is not an end-user editor adapted to whatever end-user
>> needs you have in mind.
>>
>>
>
> Hmm.. i was always thinking that text editor is for editing the text,
> not Strings. :)
>
Then may be you're wrong.
> Look, we write tools for users, but not for machine.
> Same as we should invent languages to serve for developers, not for compilers.
>
Dev tools are for developers. That's what the base system is about. Not
about the machine, not about end-users. Just developers.
Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
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