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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: stuff
Message-ID: <4408@enea.se>
Date: 4 Apr 89 16:39:19 GMT
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Joseph H Allen (jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu) writes:
> * And, most importantly and with religeous intensity, when moving between
>   lines, the cursor MUST NOT EVER change column position.  If the cursor gets
>   placed after the end of a line or if it gets placed in the middle of a tab
>   field, then, on the next command which requires the cursor to be in a valid
>   position, the cursor should jump to the beginning of the next line, end of
>   current line or beginning or end of the tab field, depending on the command. 


Another "Hear, hear, I couldn't agree more" from me. It always
drives me crazy when the cursor suddenly sticks away from the  
given path to the beginning of line because there happened
to be an empty line. Before TPU came along, I used EDT on VMS,
and I never learn to live with it. I have been thinking of learning
my profile to do it, but hesitated, since it's so god damn slow
already. GNU-Emacs has a mood for it, and, yes, TPU has too, although 
TPU does in a little strange way.
  Anyway, a good editor should provide the other way too, for those
who prefer. Yes, TPU, does that too.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
I used to say "It could have been worse, it could have been Pepsi",
then I drank a Diet Coke...