* mike ledoux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:22:45AM +0100, Ren� Clerc wrote:
>
> > I couldn't _disagree_ with you more. For example, C source code is
> > text to: I bet you'll want your editor to know that it's editing C
> > source code ;)

I'd perhaps disagree that it should know what it's editing at all times,
but I would agree that a text editor should be able to be told "search
for /^-- $/ and delete anything after it".

> You'd lose that bet.
>
> I don't buy into the emacs philosophy.

Or the Vim philosophy? Or the $insert_some_non_trivial_editor
philosophy?  Who's do you buy into, Pico?  Ed?  Ex?  Notepad? :)

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