view mode: time to phase out [[[[ recursive-edit ]]]]

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1991 21:12

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>>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 91 20:03:48 +1200, mike-w@cs.aukuni.ac.nz said:

>>> On Fri, 23 Aug 1991 22:59:00 GMT,
>>> "Dan" == Dan_Jacobson@att.com writes:

Dan> I like how view mode makes a buffer go away when you reach the end.
Dan> The main annoyance I have is it filling up my mode line with [[[]]]'s
Dan> when there doesn't seem much point for the recursive-edits.  

mike-w>   I haven't used view for a couple of years, for precisely
mike-w> that reason (the recursive edit backlash).  I enclose a
mike-w> version of more-mode, initially from the elisp archive ...

>>>And on Mon, 26 Aug 91 12:25:09 EDT, tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) said:

Thomas> There is a replacement view mode available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.

OK, but that's not the point.  The point is that we must get this
better stuff into the official GNU Emacs version.  Also, you now mean
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu .

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