On Nov 5, 12:35 pm, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > INTERLISP's editor allowed the user to select a block of > LISP code and make it into a function. The selected block > would be analyzed to determine which local variables it referenced, > and a new function would be created with those parameters. The > block of code at the original point would then be replaced by > a call to the function. > > Today's editors are too dumb to do that right. They're text > editors with the illusion of knowing something about the language, > not language editors which also format text.
Eclipse does that. Visual Studio does that. As for Python, I hear that Eric IDE has a plugin to do that, although I haven't tested it myself. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
