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From: chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Bogus Unipress Emacs transient windows
Message-ID: <3958@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 19:54:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3958
Posted: Wed Oct 15 19:54:32 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 00:04:36 EDT
References: <3948@amdahl.UUCP> <3473@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll)
Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen house
Lines: 17
Keywords: bogus,Unipress,transient,bogons

In article <3473@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> barmar@mit-eddie (Barry Margolin) writes:
 >The original poster has things backwards.  Gosling invented the use of
 >permanent buffers for transient information. 

No, nothing was backwards.  My 'old-days' in emacs start at Gosling permanent
buffers time.  Your 'old-days' go back farther I gather.

 >						It sounds as if Unipress
 >finally excised it.  

Rather than 'excise' something Unipress didn't like, why didn't they
set it up as an option?  I would like to be able to turn this bug/feature
on-off at my choice.  Any ideas on the best way to do this?

chongo <> /\oo/\
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