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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: why do editors "shrink-wrap" the text?
Message-ID: <10088@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 04:50:10 GMT
References: <97499@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <97499@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> (Doug Landauer):

> If the cursor is out beyond the end of a line and you start typing,
> then dammit the editor should insert enough spaces to allow you to
> type there!  If it's "in a tab field", then the tab should convert
> to the appropriate amount of spaces!
  [...]
> -- P.S.  does gnuemacs have a mode where it works that way?

Yes.  (Any question of the form "does gnuemacs have ..." has the
answer "yes" ;-)  Try picture-mode.  You can even change the default
direction of cursor movement and type from top to bottom or right to
left if you want to.
-- 
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