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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature
Message-ID: <4763@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 14:34:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 14:34:02 1984
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> ...  I
> should be able to press a key and then italic bit-maps should be put  in
> my file as the italics appear on my screen.  Likewise for other fonts or
> foreign character sets.  To tell the truth in five-years ascii  oriented
> editors will be a bad memory.

By all means let us know when you write a C compiler that accepts bitmaps
on its input.  Likewise when you have rewritten all the rest of Unix to
accept your wondrous new input format.  I agree that something along these
lines may well have to be done someday... but until then, we've got a *very*
large investment in ASCII-based tools.  And it's not easy to define a really
general-purpose replacement for ASCII, either.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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