[climacs-devel] Climacs - self documenting editor?

[Robert Strandh]

Christophe Rhodes writes:
 > I've been playing with the command processor because the climacs
 > minibuffer is small: too small to let the ordinary CLIM command
 > processor take over, as it wants to print newlines or go over 80
 > characters; I presume that this is why the commands were written this
 > way in the first place.  Does anyone know of any other reason that
 > this was done?

The reason was that, when this was done, McCLIM could not even acquire
those arguments correctly, so they had to be acquired explicitly by
Climacs.  Later, McCLIM was improved to do that, but, as you point
out, in a way that is not compatible with the Climacs minibuffer.  

-- 
Robert Strandh

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