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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Emacs NeWS support
Message-ID: <4GW1PU7xds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Feb 90 20:25:26 GMT
References: <Feb.14.18.25.34.1990.2908@geneva.rutgers.edu> <FISCHER.90Feb19224922@blue.iesd.auc.dk>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <FISCHER.90Feb19224922@blue.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
> The X version of GNU Emacs runs fine under OpenWindows. Making
> emacs support a proprietary window system that already supports emacs
> seems a little pointless.

Let's put it this way: why do you use Emacs rather than some other editor?
The bottom line for a lot of people is the programmability, no? So it stands
to reason that people who like the programmability of Emacs are likely to
want to have access to the programmability of NeWS while they're in Emacs.
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