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Date:Mon Sep 4 15:09:03 1993 
Subject:Re: emacs & ved; flame-bait. 
From:Ceri Hopkins 
Volume-ID:930904.03 

>>>>> On Fri, 3 Sep 1993 13:34:25 GMT, kers@uk.co.hewlett-packard.hpl (Chris Dollin)  said:

Kers> What is it that people like about emacs over ved? The
Kers> misbehaviour of the cursor as I attempt to drive it round an
Kers> emacs buffer is enough to drive me up the wall -- I mean, it can
Kers> go unpredictable amounts left and right as you move up and down
Kers> the buffer; that drives me nuts -- never mind having to discover
Kers> scroll-step.

Surely this only happens if you move up or down from the position in a
line and the following or preceding line is shorter. Emacs then
follows end of line instead of "walking on air" as in ved. Long lines
of code are ugly.

I much prefer Emacs' line wrapping for lines wider than the screen over
ved's horizontal scrolling.

At least I can still read News (in Emacs of course ;-) even if people
post articles with lines longer than 80 characters!

Kers> What *do* people like? [Err, perhaps this should go to private email,
Kers> otherwise we will have a large number of p-o'ed po-p users.]

Plenty. See Tim's posting just for "starters" :-) [Oh, and the
automatic citation addition as witnessed in this posting, which I also
use in the same way in response to email].

Ceri
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Ceri Hopkins                                    
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