THE VIDEO SHELF · structure editors
Lisp Editing in the 80s - Interlisp SEdit
A short demo of SEdit, the structure editor for Interlisp-D on Xerox Lisp machines in the 1980s, which edits code as trees rather than text.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked as the clearest view of the legendary structural editor in threads about Lisp environments and structure editing.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- thoughtupquick
- Topic
- structure editors
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I missed the golden age of lisp, but i know this project for its legendary structural editor, SEdit[1], released the year I was born. i found it mentioned in an old paredit readme, something poignant like “paredit is only a shadow of what interlisp was: …
undershirt on Hacker News · 2020-08
In Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSesThat's a good suggestion. Walking through a set of interactions is a solid idea. For what it's worth, there are some videos around of people actually doing it with Lisp and Smalltalk systems, and pjmlp already posted a pile of them elsewhere in this thread. …
mikelevins on Hacker News · 2021-01
In On Repl-Driven Programming
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