Hi, The package I wrote about last year: "Sidebrain: a programmers' memory aide" is now available for people to try, at http://sidebrain.sourceforge.net/
Also, I'm working on a project to provide higher-level editing facilities, with the aim of exploring what level people think of program changes at (by looking at which of the new facilities they use, and which ones they ignore and prefer to continue with other techniques), and the software for that is available at http://emacs-versor.sourceforge.net/ with a series of screenshots to show what it does, at http://emacs-versor.sourceforge.net/demo/index.html And I suppose it's a good point for discussion on this list: When making changes to source code, do people really think of it as lines of characters, as printed on paper or displayed on screen, or do they think of it in more abstract terms, of expressions, statements? I expect it's a mixture, and the mixture varies between individuals (and over time within an individual) but I don't (yet) have any empirical evidence. __John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
