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From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-88 00:27:11 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Oct7.002711.19856@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. A. W. Consulting
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: less v97 edit +linenumber
References: <159@libove.UUCP> <9755@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods)
Followup-To: alt.flame

In article <9755@cup.portal.com> DMasterson@cup.portal.com writes:
> [ DMasterson@cup.portal.com didn't include the attribution line. ]
>> [ Discussion about MicroEMACS 3.9 not handling '+LINE' args, which
>>   also admits that MicroEMACS is brain-damaged. ]
> [ Three appropriate solutions to the problem. ]

Might I suggest a third?  Why not dump MicroEMACS, which you consider
brain-damaged in the first place?

I use Jove4.9a, which handles the '+LINE' syntax quite well.  It does
lots of other things too, including acting as a flexible and powerful,
not to mention robust, text editor.  If I remember right, Jove4.7 did
require '-LINE', but that's all behind us :-).

Every (Unix) editor worthy of placement in $EDITOR (and/or $VISUAL)
should understand (as a subset possibly) the set of vi options.
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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