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From: jason@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM (Jason Zions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DM in OSF
Message-ID: <1130004@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM>
Date: 14 May 91 02:23:05 GMT
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Organization: HP Colorado Networks Division
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>Suggestions for INPUT PAD
>abilities (input editing, undo/redo, cut/paste, and simple
>but powerfull text editing) would make the transition much
>easier and bring new/improved funtionality to the OSF
>environment.

I admit to only passing knowledge of the use of the DM, so bear with me for
one tyro question. Could you explain what editing features you'd like that
you can't get with ksh in an xterm or hpterm window with a good cut-buffer
manager? I suspect "undo" may be hard, but I may not understand what it
does. As for input editting, ksh can be made to behave like either vi or
emacs. (I know, not everyone prefers one of those two. But most know how to
use one or the other.)
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