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Re: Editor for Windows

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From: Danek Duvall
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:36
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O R Vellacott (oliver@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall) writes:
: 
: >There are, of course, many wonderful features, and even some more to come...
: 
: There is one feature that I would very much like to see in PFE, which
: could decide whether or not I decide to switch to it from Demacs
: (which is wonderful, but only runs in DOS real mode), and that is
: arbitrary level undo/redo. I use this all the time in Demacs -- it
: means that even if you accidentally make lots of changes that you
: didn't mean to, you can undo them all instead of just the most recent
: one. Does (or will) PFE do this? (The undo facility didn't seem to
: work at all in the beta version).
Yes, this will be included in the release version, along with automated
backups and line-wrapping (man, do I need that) and even nicities like box
mode text selection, etc., etc...

: While I am here, I seem to remember someone saying that there was a
: version of Gnu Emacs which runs under Windows NT, which I have just
: installed. Can anyone tell me where I can find this?
I believe you can find it at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the nt directory.

: Colin F. Caughie   (borrowing O.R.Vellacott's account)
: cfc@ee.ed.ac.uk
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Danek Duvall: Washington and Lee U.
Internet: duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu
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