∂07-SEP-74  1552		1,MLM
 There are two editor facilities which I consider the absence of to be
 absolutely disgusting:
 	1. Facility for changing between two files, keeping track of 
 location in each, somethiong like in TV but much faster.
 	2. MACRO FACILITY!!!  This certainly ought to be quite general
 but should be at least able to handle search-and-change operations.
 A display editor developed at Yale implements macro facility in the
 following way [I am changing Yale commands to projected Stanford E
 commands]:
 	There is a command buffer, which stores a set of editor commands;
 entries may be made in two ways: (1) direct entry of the ASCII characters
 (something on the order of the way monitor commands may be buffered in a 
 DO file), and the of course more useful way (2) by "opening" the buffer
 (with a <control R> (for "repeat", perhaps, or an EXTEND MODE command)
 performing a series of commands, typeins, etc. so that you see what their
 results are, "closing" the command buffer (<control><meta>R).  Following that,
 the execution of an EXTENDED MODE command DO, say, would perform the series
 of operations contained in the command buffer.  An argument N to this command
 would repeat the series N times, of course.
 	The command buffer would probably either be internal to the editor
 or something like a TMPCOR or some other accessible kind of file (like
 a monitor DO command file).
 


∂06-SEP-74  1733		1,TAG
 RE:E***HOW ABOUT FINISHING POOLE'S MACRO COMMAND PROJECT?

∂3-SEP-74  1746		network site SRI
 Date:  3 SEP 1974 1746-PDT
 From: WALKER at SRI-AI
 Subject: SUR Note 148:  SRI Reports
 To:   SPEECH.DISTRIBUTION:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 SUR						Don Walker
 Note 148					SRI
 (1 page plus 6 reports)				Menlo Park, CA 94025
 
 						29 August 1974
 
 
 				SRI Reports
 
 	The following SRI reports are attached to the mailed copy of
 this SURNote:
 
 Donald E. Walker.  Speech Understanding Research.  Annual Technical
     Report, Covering the Period 3 October 1972 through 31 March 1974.
     May 1974.
 
 Donald E. Walker.  The SRI Speech Understanding System.  SRI Technical
     Note 91.  April 1974.  (The IEEE/CMU Speech Recognition Symposium
     paper)
 
 William H. Paxton.  A Best-First Parser.  SRI Technical Note 92.
     April 1974.  (The IEEE/CMU Speech Recognition Symposium paper)
 
 Barbara G. Deutsch.  The Structure of Task Oriented Dialogs.  SRI
     Technical Note 90.  April 1974.  (The IEEE/CMU Speech Recognition
     Symposium paper)
 
 Richard W. Becker and Fausto Poza.  Acoustic Phonetic Research in Speech
     Understanding.  June 1974.  (Presented at the IEEE/CMU Speech
     Recognition Symposium--not in the Proceedings)
 
 Sharon Baranofsky.  Semantic and Pragmatic Processing in the SRI
     Speech Understanding System.  March 1974.
 
 
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∂26-JUL-74  1545		S,LES
 Hogan  of NSF proposes to bring a fellow named Ron Hamer (from U.K.)
 to discuss speech work on the morning of September 23.