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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: why do editors "shrink-wrap" the text?
Message-ID: <10109@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 89 07:17:14 GMT
References: <11542@lanl.gov>
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <11542@lanl.gov>, by jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):
> 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!

That's how gnuemacs picture-mode works.  Picture-mode provides the
illusion of a semi-infinite quarter plane --- you just move and plop
down text.  Carriage return moves you to the beginning of the next
line; it only inserts a new line if you are at the end of the buffer.

For those familiar with vi but not emacs, picture-mode is not a
'mode' in the sense of vi insert mode.  In gnuemacs you generally
don't hop from mode to mode in the same buffer.  Instead, you use
fortran-mode to edit Fortran, latex-mode for LaTeX, text-mode for
text, etc.
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