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From: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.
Message-ID: <2147@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 1 May 88 17:27:34 GMT
References: <3931@killer.UUCP> <2116@mipos3.intel.com> <606@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <606@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Could you explain that?  What is there about emacs that lets it edit
>.newsrc, and what is there about vi that forbids it?  Thanks.


vi has a compiled-in limit to the length of lines in its buffer -- 
char buffer_line[LARGE-BUT-NEVER-LARGE-ENOUGH-NUMBER] -- and it croaks
if it tries to read in a file with a line larger than this limit,
truncating the remainder of the file.

Emacs has no such limit.  In fact, I have used Emacs to edit binaries.

--woodstock
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