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From: ury@cosmos.huji.ac.il (ury segal)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
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Message-ID: <1991May30.142750.9342@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 14:27:50 GMT
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In article <1991May30.124131.4679@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> write:
>2) I only need to use what-line and friends on very, very rare
>   occasions, like once in every two or three months of quite heavy
>   Emacs use for a variety of tasks.  In fact, I didn't remember
>   (what-line) from the last time I used it, so I actually needed to
>   look it up, as described above, to answer your question.  I find it
>   curious that you needed it within the first few hours of beginning
>   to use the editor.  Your working style must be quite different from
>   mine.

I'm a programmer. I need the line numbers 'cause the compiler give
them to me to tell me where the errors are.

Look, everybody, I ment that EMACS is to complex to people like me, not
because I'm stupid but It's that I don't need all those features. just
the simple one. And the access to them is nod so easy as in vi.


--ury

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