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From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
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Date: 29 Apr 91 05:36:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: ken@sugra.uucp's message of 26 Apr 91 02:49:28 GMT

In article <1991Apr26.024928.2260@sugra.uucp> ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) writes:
   [various reasons why XEDIT's hide-lines facility is better than
   multiple windows for looking at procedure arguments]

Emacs has:

 * hide-lines (or selective display), so that you can hide
   procedure bodies if you want to

 * multiple windows, so that you can look at the header/definition
   file while editing the code/implementation file

 * M-., so that you can quickly move to the source of
   a function

 * M-x arglist (for some languages), so that you can display
   the argument list for the function you are trying to call

 * M-x edit-callers (for some languages), for similar problems

 * M-x grep, for quickly moving to arbitrary places in a collection
   of source files by context (I usually use this instead
   of M-.)

So, with Emacs you get your choice. "hide-lines" alone is a pretty
poor development tool.