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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: GNU_EMACS and uEMACS
Message-ID: <3749@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 18:55:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 18:55:16 1986
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In article <109200001@ccvaxa> preece@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>
> People should realize that some of the nicest features of GNUemacs
> are things that would be lost in a port to the ST: compiling from
> inside an edit session, shell windows, and filtering regions
> through commands are obviously not going to work without
> Unix multitasking.  It's still a nice editor, and without those
> features it might be small enough to fit...
>

Why do you need multitasking to filter a region through a command?
As long as the system provides a way to specify what program to use
as a shell you should be able to do filters.

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