By the way, did you notice Emacs doing anything unusual when you added your
new variable declarations to the squatter program?
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As an experiment, go into the ``joints.c'' buffer and add the following
declaration to the program. Watch carefully what happens when you enter the
return following the semicolon at the end of the line.
int mumble;
What happened?
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Emacs has many more features that make it easier for you to write C programs.
There are so many features that we don't have the time to talk about all of
them here. If you're curious, pay close attention to what happens as you edit.
Eric N. Eide
Hamlet Project
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah