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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Message-ID: <335@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 02:47:48 GMT
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In article <13763@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>In article <330@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>>In article <813@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide) writes:
>>>Do ":set showmode" and see the vi mode you're in.
>>
>>Which version of VIle is that?  I have "Version 3.7, 6/7/85" running
>>under SunOS 3.2, and it says "showmode: No such option" when I try that.
>
>What is this news group for?

Well, my posting was sent under the apparently mistaken assumption that
it was a place where serious questions might get answers.  Why assume
that all ekenames are insults?

>How about putting some effort in writing a real editor - which in
>my case means the ability to handle Japanese, Chinese, and
>Korean, in addition to the usual collection of simple-minded
>northern European languages?

If Kinmouth cares to produce something instead of moaning, I'll be
delighted to applaud him.  (Note that dpANS C has "wchar_t" and that
 V.3 is starting to move in the direction of "internationalisation".)
In the meantime, how about someone answering the question?