Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway) Message-ID: <1991Apr28.215137.10531@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 28 Apr 91 21:51:37 GMT References: <1991Apr25.083732.6664@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Apr25.235247.27948@maytag.waterloo.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 18 Good to hear that there is _any_ solution, though my request for one that can be used at edit time is still unanswered. The more important point is still not understood, however -- no commercial product worth its price would be released with a braindead misfeature like the rape of the backspace key disabling "out of the box" use of GNU emacs for much of the world, yet repeated calls over several years to the keepers of GNU emacs have elicited no change whatever -- this bogosity is graven in stone because the keyboard of the implementer of GNU emacs happens to have DEL where over half the keyboards in the world have BS, and that settles the issue. By this single example do I destroy the claim that the CopyLeft paradigm of programming has anything useful to offer the software marketplace, and fully defend George Harrison's right to find emacs less than ideal. Kent, the man from xanth.