Subject: the verb editor

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:19:07 -0700

I'm not quite sure I understand the advantage of having the verb
editor be a separate place.  One of the wonderful things about MU*s
is that they encourage programming as a collaborative activity
which takes place in a social context.  The idea that you
need to be locked away in a room by yourself to edit your verbs
seems a little silly.

It seems to me that most of the ways that say, look, etc. are remapped
in the editor can be replaced with other commands.  For example, it's
cute that typing "look" gives you a list of editor commands, but I can
just as easily type "help @edit" or something similar.

Am I missing something about this?

-- Amy

p.s.  I have a feeling this would be difficult... but is it possible to
do an escape to your local system from moo?  What I'd like to do is
set things up so that you can invoke an editor that runs on your
local machine on your verb, and then pass the edited file back
to the moo server.

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From: Ryan Daum <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:35:08 -0700

> local machine on your verb, and then pass the edited file back
	The EMACS client MUD.el (or MOO.el) does this quite well with C-c C-v, which opens an emacs buffer in which the code is present, and pressing C-c C-s sends it to the MOO to compile.