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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: why do editors "shrink-wrap" the text?
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Date: 5 Apr 89 22:20:35 GMT
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From article <10088@megaron.arizona.edu>, by mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin):
> 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.

I'm not sure your parenthetical is true.  I want an editor in which the
carriage return key is _only_ a cursor positioning key.  No matter what
'mode' the editor is in, I want the carriage control key to put the
cursor at the beginning of the next line - and _most_especially_NOT_
insert a new line or split the line I was on!  In other words, I want
the carriage control key to behave exactly as it does on a dumb mechanical
typewriter (even in 'insert mode').  Does gnuemacs do that (without me
having to rewrite the keyboard driver or assign a macro to the carriage
return key or something)?