Re: WYSIWYG

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1986 06:57

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> >>Take, for instance, Richard Stallman's GNU emacs.  It is best known as a
> >>WYSIWYG text editor, however, it also has a text-manipulation language...
> >
> >Emacs is not a WYSIWYG editor. It is a display editor...
> 
> Semantics, semantics!

Ah, but without disagreements on semantics we have no reason to argue. It is a
LOT more fun arguing about semantics than about the topic itself... *grin!*

> Emacs is a WYSIWYG /text editor\ as opposed to a /text
> formatter\.

Uh, I've never SEEN a \text editor/ that wasn't WYSIWYG if you take brian's
argument. I don't think that emacs is WYSIWYG at all, unless you consider a
typewriter or an 80x24 screen appropriate final copy. It is a visual screen
editor, nothing more or less than ed with delusions of grandeur. (again,
semantics...)

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