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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1994
Anthony J Arcuri, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
William S Cadden, Saugerties, NY (US);
Patrick C Mancuso, North Andover, MA (US);
Frederick P Muller, Lake Katrine, NY (US);
Kurt A Riegel, Kingston, NY (US);
Robert C Seacord, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
David W Stafford, Stony Point, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for providing improved editing capability in a structure editor, and more particularly for syntax-directed editors. A set of methods provide an approach to selecting arbitrary nodes from within a tree, and using those arbitrarily selected groups of nodes in otherwise conventional editing operations such as move, copy, delete, collect, and the like. In syntax-directed editors, the present invention provides a way of maintaining syntax while these novel and highly flexible editing operations are performed.