ANNOUNCE: Language Sensitive Editing for Emacs users with Python

[Peter Milliken]

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the release of 1.3 of the Python language templates
for use with Emacs.

In combination with the minor mode, ELSE (Emacs Language Sensitive Editor)
these language templates provide true language sensitive editing for python
mode i.e. syntax is general by the editor and the programmer "fills in the
blanks" (ELSE is a true minor mode and will work with any language major
mode provided a set of language templates are available, the web site
includes template files for C, Ada, Emacs-Lisp and Latex, more are coming
"every day"  i.e. there is someone working on a set of templates for SQL).

Of course, many programmers do not like this functionality/help from an
editor as they either prefer to type in all of the keywords and language
structures themselves and then finding all of those missing ':' etc during
the edit/compile cycle or they are contractors who are paid by the hour and
the last thing they want is to be productive! For those individuals who
enjoy this kind of masochism, pls ignore this message! :-)

For more information and a copy of the relevant files, pls visit:

http://members.xoom.com/pmilliken


regards
Peter

P.S. For those who would like to see ELSE in action by a real user, have a
look at

http://home.hetnet.nl/~vandamhans/movies/moviesindex.htm

These movies trace some recent developments of ELSE showing improvments
added for programmers who have RSI and are therefore forced to using Voice
Recognition for their programming activities. But they are useful to show
the power and functionality ELSE to people who are keyboard bound :-) If
your time or bandwidth is limited then I suggest that you download the last
video as it shows the best use of ELSE.