Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!jetson!john
From: john@jetson.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Neat little .newsrc fixer-upper.
Message-ID: <21@jetson.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 18:56:42 GMT
References: <3931@killer.UUCP> <2116@mipos3.intel.com> <606@mccc.UUCP>
Organization: SMART HOUSE Development Venture
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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.

It doesn't have to do with .newsrc specifically; it's just that most
implementations of emacs have no restrictions on the length of a single
line, but vi does.


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