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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
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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