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From: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: call for discussion: renaming comp.emacs to comp.editors.emacs
Message-ID: <6097@hacgate.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 03:18:07 GMT
References: <1989Nov9.201016.13049@talos.uucp> <42499@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1989Nov14.200214.20147@talos.uucp>
Reply-To: lori@hacgate.UUCP (Lori Barfield)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Joe Wells writes:
> I disagree that [Emac's] 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.

True, but if I were new to this, and looking for an Emacs group, I'd
only think to look under 'editors'.  When I need a newspaper, I go to
a newsstand, not a shopping mall.


...lori