Re: what is a simple editor (was Re: decent unix editors?)

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From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 19:21

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In article <1992Aug4.010300.10246@mtu.edu> cescript@mtu.edu (Charles Scripter) writes:
> Trickier.  With a small patch, and some system help, uGnuEmacs could probably
> do that.  (I've got my local system folks installing it right now, along
> with default bindings if the user doesn't supply them).  [maybe a "good"
> editor should use "termcap"??]

For me, if it doesn't use Termcap (and isn't at least useful with only the
standard set of termcap capabilities defined) it isn't a UNIX editor no
matter what it runs on.
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