AntC writes:
> > Note that we should s/practical/standalone/ here. In an editor like
> > Emacs it would be trivial to record all operations at the character
> > level (Emacs already records all operations).
>
> Thanks Stephen, I'm not convinced that character-by-character
> recording would always reveal the programmer's intent.
I'm sure it doesn't reveal the programmer's intent ("s/1/2/" could
mean "s/1/2/ and leave a 3 in the same context alone", it could mean
"+=1", it could mean "*=2", it could mean "next Fibonacci number").
I'm just saying that you could apply a few heuristics and get a pretty
good idea of the intermediate states of the project that L/S/L need to
be precise. So we shouldn't give up on L/S/L just because a lot of
programmers currently don't use IDEs.
Steve
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