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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.
Message-ID: <606@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 15:11:29 GMT
References: <3931@killer.UUCP> <2116@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Organization: The College On The Other Side of Route 1
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In article <2116@mipos3.intel.com> nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) writes:
...In article <3931@killer.UUCP> jfh@killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
...>[...] I wrote it because my .newsrc on killer was in bad shape and
...>couldn't be edited because some of the lines were too long.
...
...Ah, but you *could* have edited it had you been using Emacs instead of
...vi...

Could you explain that?  What is there about emacs that lets it edit
.newsrc, and what is there about vi that forbids it?  Thanks.