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From: rsk@juniper.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
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Subject: Re: Hey Syd, here's a couple of ideas!
Summary: Elm should not have an integrated editor.
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Date: 21 Jun 91 16:52:28 GMT
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In <1991Jun20.141539.16160@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>I would love a 'simple' editor to distribute with Elm as a contributed
>product.

Well, I'm bucking the trend here, but I'd rather *not* see any editor
as part of Elm.  Elm is a mail-reader/sender -- not an editor, not a
news reader, not a reminder service, etc.  I'd like to see it stay
that way rather than have it contract "Emacs disease".  As things stand,
Elm is capable of calling vi/ex/whatever to the editing work; that seems
to be just fine, since it leaves the task of editing to programs designed
explicitly for that job.

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