Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!cadovax!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!baur From: baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself? Message-ID: <1439@spp2.UUCP> Date: 17 Sep 88 17:32:28 GMT References: <630001@hpdstma.HP.COM> Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 25 in article <630001@hpdstma.HP.COM>, mck@hpdstma.HP.COM (Doug Mckenzie) says: > (I wrote this) >>>GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself. Don't leave home without >>>it. > >>Would anyone like to debate whether "manly" is the appropriate >>gender term. Since it is both doing and being done too, perhaps > > Editing oneself seems a bit masochistic to me. ... The point I was trying to make was that GNU Emacs out of all the other editors I have used (and I do use both Jove and Vi regularly for quick editing when I don't have emacs running in another window) doesn't have line length limitations. The first bug report I ever got on code I had written at TRW involved output intended to be fed to another program. One user happened to arrange things such that a line > 700 characters was output. The DEC editor EDT barfed and died on this line, (the DEC editor TPU did not). (VMS 4.2) So I guess I am very sensitive to such matters. steve