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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: One user's editor wish list
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.023247.19183@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 02:32:47 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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>   b) Editor automatically strips trailing blanks (they can't be seen so they
>      should not exist).

How about making it so they are visible.

>   c) Tabs are expanded, again because they're invisible.

You mean when I write the file out there are no longer any tabs in it?

How about an editor that makes them visibly different?

>   - EASY TO LEARN and as INTUITIVE as possible.

Emacs as easy to learn and intuitive to emacs users.
Vi is east to learn and intuitive to vi users.

Which are you?  (I need to know to know which editor to tell you to use :-)

>An editor that comes with 300 pages of documentation is NOT easy to learn.

That depends on whether the documentation was written as a tutorial for the
illiterate, or as a reference manual.  In the latter case I might agree.
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