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Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!scocan!john
From: john@sco.COM (John R. MacMillan)
Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 18:04:31 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.180431.18412@sco.COM>
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|:This beats having to scroll through the definition every bloody
|:time you wonder what the args to this or another procedure were. 
|
|But it buys you little if you have multiple windows.

Not really, there are a lot of other benefits.  You don't have to keep
the windows in sync, you can operate on only the selected portion, and
you can do ``folding'' to organize the file in a hierarchical way.
Multiple windows are certainly useful, but are not a complete
substitute.