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Article #3485Re: why do editors "shrink-wrap" the text?
From: Mike Coffin
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 04:50
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 04:50
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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.
--
Mike Coffin mike@arizona.edu
Univ. of Ariz. Dept. of Comp. Sci. {allegra,cmcl2}!arizona!mike
Tucson, AZ 85721 (602)621-2858
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!noao!arizona!mike 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> Distribution: na Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 17