Re: [9fans] Repeating long Edit commands

2013-10-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> In some situations I don't have an x// that selects all of the data > to operate on so I can't set up sub commands (x/../{ ... }). > > Instead, I sometimes end up highlighting one block of text, going > to a scratch buffer and highlighting an Edit command, going back > to my file window and sen

[9fans] Repeating long Edit commands

2013-10-16 Thread James A. Robinson
Folks, When you use acme, is there any trick you use when repeatedly applying an identical Edit command to separate blocks of text? In some situations I don't have an x// that selects all of the data to operate on so I can't set up sub commands (x/../{ ... }). Instead, I sometimes end up highli

Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-16 Thread arnold
It came into C89 from C++, along with all the function prototype stuff, just as Joel said. I no longer have all the paper drafts from the initial ANSI C effort but I remember this quite well. Arnold fge...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the guess! > Since I could not directly find this informati

Re: [9fans] Purely historical question on variadic function notation

2013-10-16 Thread fgergo
I think that's a big help. Thank you Joel and Arnold! Gergő On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, wrote: > It came into C89 from C++, along with all the function prototype stuff, > just as Joel said. > > I no longer have all the paper drafts from the initial ANSI C effort > but I remember this quite