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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MailManager
Message-ID: <10625@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 00:39:55 GMT
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In article <1873@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM> dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM writes:
>
>In article <10577@milton.u.washington.edu>, mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>|> I have been asking NeXT for a long long time to support VI and EMACS
>|> within Text objects.  I consider this to be an Application Kit missing
>|> feature.  I consider it to be wrong for every single program to
>|> implement its own EMACS emulator (or interface into EMACS) with its
>|> own pecularities.  Also, doing an EMACS interface without a VI one is
>|> bound to annoy VI fanatics, and vice versa.
>
> why don't you just write one?  subclass Text or create an new object.  call
>it TermcapText.

Please re-read my paragraph, and in particular the third sentence --
the one beginning with "I consider it to be wrong for every single
program..."

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