From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Truly extensible editors Article-I.D.: ucb.1211 Posted: Fri May 28 20:08:49 1982 Received: Sun May 30 00:53:47 1982 >From KDO@SRI-KL Fri May 28 20:06:24 1982 It would be very nice if one editor were obviously best and everyone agreed on it. Since that is impossible, it would be nice if there were an editor which was sufficiently extensible to give people what they want (especially since on TOPS-20 there is a major saving by everyone running the same editor). If an editor is really extensible, then it should be able to give people what they want, no matter how brain-damaged you think it is. Thus it is a real deficiency that EMACS cannot truncate lines at the right margin, since there are a lot of people in the world that seem to like it. This is impossible in EMACS as it is now, so if anyone writes it from scratch again, it's something to think about... Ken