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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Re: vertical insert/delete character etc.
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 12:59:48 EDT
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> I thought English and most other Romance languages were read left to right!

Well, most western writing is (although there are exceptions).
The point was, though, that there is not much advantage in
manipulating columns of text on a display compared to the
utility of the horizontal operations.