From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3C84493A.3E516651@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200203041143.g24BhOP24002@cbe.ericsson.se>, Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [9fans] samuel (fwd) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:41:11 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5fa1159e-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Howard Trickey wrote: > my nearly full-time work these days is living inside Microsoft's > Visual Studio, doing C++, with a singing-dancing C++ mode that mostly > just gets in the way. My "favorite" is the language-savvy automatic formatter that doesn't let you write approximate outlines then go back and clean them up, but insists on immediately fleshing out everything while you're typing. To some extent MS Word does this (by default in its newest editions); ever try to highlight exactly a particular word or phrase only to have the "smart" editor suck in the adjacent spaces as well? I think in the long run time would have been saved by not having such "help".