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From: baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven L. Baur)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: call for discussion: renaming comp.emacs to comp.editors.emacs
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Date: 16 Nov 89 08:50:30 GMT
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From article <1989Nov14.200214.20147@talos.uucp>, by kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones):
+ I write:
+  > Although Emacs has been extended to do many things seemingly
+  > tangential to editing, its central function is still text editing
+  > and it should be classified as such.
 
+ Joe Wells writes:
+  > I disagree that its central function is text editing.  If you took a
+  > survey, I think you would find that more than half of the time spent using
+  > Emacs was not for text editing.

Forget about splitting comp.emacs (however renamed).  The readers are
perfectly happy with it the way it is.

The results of a poll I took in comp.emacs (about splitting the newsgroup) a
few of weeks ago will soon be posted.

Comp.emacs should be left as a single group.
-- 
steve	baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM, baur%venice.SEDD.TRW.COM@uunet.UU.NET