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Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor (Repost)
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Date: 29 Mar 89 11:30:51 GMT
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Sorry, this is a repost to the request of some people which didn't get it
in its entirety.

In article <743@stag.UUCP>, trb@stag.BITNET writes:
> ... My idea of an ideal editor is one that 1) allows
> multi-file editing with a clean and fast buffering scheme, 2) fully
> supports folding, 3) allows the programmer to relate lines and words
> and use these relationships in a hyper-text like manner (i.e. moving
> back and forth between a program document and the appropriate lines
> of code at the press of a few keys), 4) has configurations save and
> restore modes (so you can get back to EXACTLY the same place you left
> off editing the day before...with all buffer info intact), and 5) has
> more intelligence built in (rather than interpreted in macros.