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From: baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself?
Message-ID: <1414@spp2.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 08:22:23 GMT
Reply-To: baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur)
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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Try the following out ...

$ ed `which ed`
# ed returns a question mark -- ed cannot handle binary files

$ vi `which vi`
# vi returns a "line too long" error message and doesn't read the whole
#  file in

$ jove `which jove`	# if you have jove on your system
# jove returns a "line too long" error message also

# Now try your favorite editor and see what happens ...

# now try ... (this will work)
$ cp `which emacs` /tmp	# gnu-emacs
$ emacs /tmp/emacs
# now in emacs do
(replace-regexp "Emacs" "EMACS")
(save-file)
<quit>

And the resulting binary runs.  (Tested on SUN-3 and UNIX-PC)

GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself.  Don't leave home without
it.


steve