Tim Read (tmr@emotsun.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
: >>>>> On Fri, 3 Sep 1993 13:34:25 GMT, kers@uk.co.hewlett-packard.hpl (Chris Dollin) said:
: > What *do* people like? [Err, perhaps this should go to private email,
: > otherwise we will have a large number of p-o'ed po-p users.]
: I disagree, I don't think that this issue should be kept off the new group. I
: believe that there is a lot of support around for separating the language from
: the editor. Why do we have to be forced to use one particular editor?
[Tim adds lots of good reasons why Emacs is neat....]
+ And a regular expression handler. At all!!! You have no idea how
pissed off I was when I discovered that ved had no isearch, and no way
to search for a regexp (and "beginning of line" and "end of line"
don't count. And I know I could run a grep process, but that's
cheating...)
Oh, and *why*, except for implementation reason, does ved hae this
fetish for line-orientation?
And... wait for it... NO UNDO!!! Until you have to put up with a yank
which calls itself undo you have no idea how irritating it is. But
I've had this argument before.....
-&.
--
&ndy Holyer, COGS, University of Sussex, UK.
Still seeking work, by the way....
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