special editor support for indentation needed.

[MRAB]

Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Andreas Roehler wrote:
>> with python-mode.el from
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-mode/
> 
> I think there's something wrong with the site because it tells me it's version
> 1.0 from year 2005.
> 
>> Meanwhile I'll reflect a draft addressing your needs.
> 
>  there is a rather sizable set of things that could be added to assist speech
> during programming.  I'm mostly concerned about the editing aspect of speech
> driven programming.
> 
>> BTW, what about this stuff?:
>>
>> http://www.cb1.com/~john/computing/emacs/handsfree/index.html
> 
> it's interesting but most of it is very low level user interface orientation.
> Lo level stuff is relatively easy to implement.  High-level stuff is much more
> difficult than the equivalent GUI abstraction.
> 
> a narrow channel interface stuff is very interesting  especially if you take
> full advantage of the concept.  With regards to programming, a narrow channel
> interface would let you choose a relatively low number of "big" items in the
> field of vision and then let you continue to narrow until you can easily operate
> on the item of interest.
> 
That reminds me of the text editor "sam":

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Worth a read.