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A small contribution to editing with a syntax directed editor

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SDE 1: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

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https://doi.org/10.1145/800020.808242

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The simple design of a syntax directed editor has made them a popular research topic over the last few years; however, in practice little development time is spent in actually entering program text. Most of the effort is devoted to program maintenance. This means that the editor has to be able to handle changes easily - a task that most syntax editors handle poorly. This paper describes a syntax editor and outlines the features that make editing such programs practical. It includes a bottom up parser that is used in a variety of ways within the editor.

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A small contribution to editing with a syntax directed editor
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
    2. Formal language definitions
      1. Syntax
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program reasoning
      1. Parsing

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SDE 1: Proceedings of the first ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

April 1984

196 pages

ISBN:0897911318

DOI:10.1145/800020

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 19, Issue 5
May 1984
196 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/390011
Editor:
Peter Henderson
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 9, Issue 3
May 1984
196 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/390010
Editor:
Peter Henderson
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