Archive for May, 2009
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
No Small Changes
Recent experiences with SlickEdit 2009 have reminded me that there are no small changes. Even when you think you understand the nature of a change, severe side-effects can pop up in complex software. This was the case when we put out our first release of SlickEdit 2009, version 14.0.0.5. We had completed our usual beta [...]
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
S-Expression Navigation
Commands (and key bindings) are available for Emacs-like S-expression navigation. These work in all emulations. The next_sexp (Ctrl+Alt+Right) and prev_sexp (Ctrl+Alt+Left) commands can be compared to next_word and prev_word, except that they treat blocks as words. The backward_up_sexp (Ctrl+Alt+Up) command is the shortcut for navigating to the start of the immediately enclosing block (in Lisp, this would [...]
