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From: jr@bbncd@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Interesting thing
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Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 11:45:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 17 11:45:03 1983
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From:  John Robinson <jr@bbncd>

BBN's PEN editor, when faced with this situation, appends the newline
silently, and then REMOVES one (if it's there) that comes back from the
filter at EOF.  This is very useful: for example, to modify a
modification date in a file, one marks the old date (which may be in
the midst of a line) and filters the region through date.  Voila, the
new date appears in the old place.  Perhaps emacs could add this
capability to filter-region (I'm not an emacs source hacker).

/jr