From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T04:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: OCD, end statements, and vertical space

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:05:36 -0500, ara.t.howard wrote:

>    - in vim, with ruby.vim and matchit, i can simply bounce on % to  
> match do/end, module/end, class/end, if/else/end, etc.  this works on  
> keywords and, of course, "{}" braces.  the result is that i hardly  
> care about balancing ends visually since it's so easy to let my  
> editor do it
> 
>    - folding compresses vertical space and reduces the problem by at  
> least 80%.  are you using a folding editor?  here is what your code  
> looks like to me (with some formatting of course)

These are really interesting points.  In PL/I I'm using a rudimentary
version of emacs, with no folding or syntax recognition/highlighting, so
I've gotten used to making whitespace do all the work.  In fact, one of the
first things I tend to do with any modern editor is turn the folding off.
And I use whatever the default highlighting is.

Perhaps I need to learn to use my tools better.

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