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From: dyson@dory.cis.ohio-state.edu (mark l dyson)
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Subject: Re: VT100 emulations and EMACS
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Date: 26 Oct 89 00:38:08 GMT
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In article <9155@max.u.washington.edu> scott@max.u.washington.edu writes:

>Pardon me for asking this, but what are EMACS and what are they used
>for?

Nothing to pardon.  Emacs _is_ a screen editor that is very commonly used
by UNIX machines (I'm writing this via my Emacs window via my C-128 right
now).  One of the greatest things about it is how it can be tailored to
what you're writing.  If I'm programming in C, Cobol, Pascal, or whatever,
it gives the appropriate tab stops, etc.  In pure text mode (like now)
it's a super word processor.  It's applications go on and on...

-Mark-