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From: jqj@uoregon.UUCP (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface) (calibration)
Message-ID: <1768@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 18:24:29 GMT
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Reply-To: jqj@drizzle.UUCP (JQ Johnson)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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>Emacs is a good example of a modeless editor
This is true only to a first approximation.  For example, the keystrokes
allowed after one has typed M-x and before one has typed RETURN have
different effects than the same keystrokes typed elsewhere.  Phrased
differently, there is a distinguished window for commands, just as
in vi.  At least in gnu emacs (though not in several other variants
of emacs) one can treat the M-x command line *mostly* like another
buffer...

The point here is that "modeless" is not well defined.  Followups to
some other newsgroup.