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From: markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark C. Henderson)
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Subject: Re: You could have anything in vi; now...
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Date: 30 Mar 91 17:52:59 GMT
References: <#QL#6B@cs.widener.edu> <963@dri500.dri.nl> <9PAAVSF@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <9PAAVSF@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
->> Don't (by default, anyway). In my experience, that would depend on
->> curses (unless you're going to reinvent this),
->
->Don't use curses for things like editors. Curses doesn't handle scrolling
->regions (windows) worth a damn.
->-- 
->Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
->+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"

My experience is that this is highly dependent on which flavour of 
Unix you are using.

Mark
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