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From: tmoody@sjuphil.uucp (T. Moody)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Micro-emacs wish list
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.151304.11745@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 6 Aug 90 15:13:04 GMT
Reply-To: tmoody@sjuphil.UUCP ()
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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I suppose you might think of this as an open letter to Daniel Lawrence. 
As an extremely satisfied user of Micro-emacs 3.10, I am interested in
learning what enhancements might be on the table for future versions. 
Two very useful items that I can think of are:

1.  A general undo command, for undoing the last edit, as opposed to the
last deletion.  I imagine that this is a difficult assignment.

2.  A mode for dealing with text without using carriage returns at the
end of on-screen lines.  XyWrite, for example, "wraps" text on-screen
without modifying the text file at all.  Many publishers prefer to
receive electronic manuscripts in this form.  The MS-DOS editor called
"VDE" is capable of this, but is in other respects somewhat deficient,
in my opinion.  I have no idea if this is a tall programming order,
since I am no programmer.

-- Todd

-- 
Todd Moody * sjuphil!tmoody@uunet.uu.net (Whatever that means)
            "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."  -- William Blake