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From: ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: Re: AEGIS/UN*X [really, DM/Emacs]
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 16:43:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 16:43:40 1987
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>    It doesn't bother you that the DM editor does not have word wrap, that
>    basic of text processing services?
>
>  Nope, doesn't bother me a bit.  That is what troff is for.

Huh?  We're talking about automatically going to a new line when you reach
the end of a line (or some predefined right margin) while you're typing.
Ain't seen a troff that does that yet.  This is probably the single biggest
annoyance in the DM editor (from the point of view of simple text entry).
Well, one of the many single biggest annoyances anyway :-).

I'd be happy to list some others -- no incremental search, repeat search gets
screwed up if any other macros use search (e.g., delete word), window jumps
around madly if you try to balance a paren that's off the current window
region, can't undo undoes, filename completion, ... .  (I count undoing
undoes, filename completion, etc., as nice features even for "simple text
entry" because even novices who are shown these features on Emacs like and
use them.)

I don't wish to flame; I only hope that Apollo does something about stuff
like this (since I sure don't want to give up these wonderful machines).

-- Ashwin.